November, 2025 archive
It’s All about the Benjamins 0
Sportswriter extraordinaire Bob Molinaro:
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
At AL.com, Kyle Whitmire looks at Donald Trump’s decision to demolish of the East Wing of the White House (without, natch, getting permission, although he does not own the White House) and hears a rhyme.
Follow the link for his citation of the evidence.
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*Mark Twain.
Mensa Material 0
Sam takes a test.
Full Disclosure:
We don’t know for sure that it’s the same test that Donald Trump took, but, if it’s not, it’s likely similar.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Ronald Brownstein hears a rhyme from the past in the actions of today’s Supreme Supremacist Court. Here’s a snippet from his article:
But, starting in the 1870s, the conservative Supreme Court of that era unraveled those protections in rulings that culminated in the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson decision that upheld “separate but equal” Jim Crow segregation for nearly the next 70 years.
Today’s Supreme Court majority has not matched that nadir. But the conservative majority on the modern court has steadily retrenched the landmark civil rights protections enacted during the 1960s — a period that historians often describe as the nation’s Second Reconstruction.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
Competent therapists? At Psychology Today Blogs, Marlynn Wei points out that “(n)ew research reveals AI companions handled teen mental health crises correctly only 22% of the time.”
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Guns and stupid, guns and stupid.
They go together like love and Cupid.
Let me tell you brother,
You can’t have one without the other.