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2025 archive

Republican Family Values Meet a Notion of Immigrants 0

Hones to Betsy, you can’t make this stuff up.

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QOTD 0

Vladimir Nabokov:

Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.

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“History Doesn’t Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0

Donald Trump says to the assembled militarr commanders,

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*Mark Twain.

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

The Trump maladmnistration wants them darkies to know their place.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

They partied with politeness.

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Sporadic Bloggery 0

Places to go.

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QOTD 0

Franz Kafka:

I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.

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Supply Chain 0

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Stream of Conscienceless 0

Mike Johnson says,

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The Rule of Lawless 0

The Trump maladministration decrees, “Hatch Act, schmatch act.”

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Trickle On Economics Rides Again (or Is That “Still”?) 0

Sam and the crew destroy discuss the rationale for not taxing billionaires offered by the Republican candidate for New Jersey Lieutenant Governor.

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Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0

Evidence for the prosecution? Book ’em, Dano.

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Hoist on Their Own Petard 0

Methinks Atrios has a point.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

The hunt for politeness continues.

Joshua Perrone was in an area of thick vegetation when members of his hunting party “unknowingly partially encircled an area of dense cover in an attempt to harvest a pheasant that was hiding in the thicket,” Fish & Game said in a news release.

When the pheasant emerged and took to the air, one of hunters in the party fired a single shot that resulted in “multiple pellets” flying past the pheasant and striking Perrone, who received “multiple, non-life threatening wounds,” Fish & Game said.

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QOTD 0

Kurt Vonnegut:

What troubles me most about my lovely country is that its children are seldom taught that American freedom will vanish, if, when they grow up, and in the exercise of their duties as citizens, they insist that our courts and policemen and prisons be guided by divine or natural law.

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A Tune for the Times 0

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“Look in the Mirror, Boy!” 0

This article describes as clear a case of psychological projection as we are ever likely to see.

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The Grift of Grab 0

Apparently, Donald Trump thinks he has the divine right to things.

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“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0

In an article about the mean for the sake of mean that the Trump maladministration is displaying toward immigrants, persons who look like immigrants, and even natural-born American citizens who happen to be brown, Gustavo Arellano hears a rhyme:

Under Noem’s leadership, DHS’ social media campaign has instead produced videos that call undocumented immigrants “the worst of the worst” and depict immigration agents as heroes called by God to confront invading hordes. A recent one even used the theme song to the cartoon version of the Pokémon trading card game – tagline “Gotta catch them all” – to imply going after the mango guy and tamale lady is no different than capturing fictional monsters.

That’s one step away from “The Eternal Jew,” the infamous Nazi propaganda movie that compared Jews to rats and argued they needed to be eradicated.

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*Mark Twain.

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Republican Family Values 0

Mrs. Betty Bowers marvels at the mendacity.

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