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Free Trumpled Speech 0

Caption:  Free Speech in the Age of Trump.  Image:  Heavily redacted document with a Sharpie labeled

Via Job’s Anger.

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The Politics of Tantrum 0

In an article about Donald Trump’s war on late night comedians, Mike Littewin asks what methinks is a quite valide question:

Has there ever been anyone whose skin was so predominately orange and, at the same time, so preposterously thin?

Follow the link for his thoughts on the matter.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Another oxymoronic “responsible gun owner” exposes his portable phallus to a toddler.

We are society of stupid.

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QOTD 0

Hyman G. Rickover:

A free society can survive only through men and women of integrity.

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A Tune for the Times 0

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She Went Aspray 0

Florida Woman.

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The Guiding Principle 0

Frame One:  Dark-skinned man says to the Roberts Court,

Click to view the original image.

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A Picture Is Worth 0

Non Sequitur visualizes why the inventor of the whell might have second thoughts.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

And another gun fancier didn’t know–and didn’t bother to check whether–his gun was loaded.

And thus passeth another life in Gun Nut Garden of Eden.

Musical NotesGuns 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.

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Stray Thought 0

Who other persons idolize can tell you a lot about the character and beliefs of said idolators. Indeed, they may even be said to hold up a mirror to said idolators.

For example, what can you induce about those who find this person to be admired?

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Dis Coarse Discourse 0

Michael in Norfolk runs the numbers.

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QOTD 0

Voltaire:

One always speaks badly when one has nothing to say.

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Geeking Out 0

Mageia v. 9 with the Plasma desktop. KeePassXC, Firefox, and Konqueror are shaded (you can’t do that in Windows). XClock is in the upper right; GKrellM, the lower right. The wallpaper is from my collection.

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A Tune for the Times 0

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“Facts Are What People Think” 0

At Psychology Today Blogs, Mary Ann Little writes

Although it may be hard to wrap your mind around it, some people really do have trouble seeing, and coming to terms with, the truth. We see this in the microcosm of relationships, but also in the macrocosm of business and politics. But what are the underlying dynamics at play when someone seems to be living in a reality contrary to easily proven fact?

(My first thought is, these days, it’s all too easy to “wrap your mind around it.” Just watch the antics of the Trump maladministration.)

Anyway, you might what to read her article, where she explores why some folks believe stuff that lacks verifiable veracity.

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

Gene Nichol hears a rhyme:

. . . I was even more taken aback by President Trump’s declaration that all must submit to what the “federal government, as represented by the President of the United States, tells them, for the good of the country.” What a mouthful. It was enough to bring back the 17th century. The glorious Sun King. Louis XIV who (perhaps) said: “L’Etat, c’est moi!”.

Follow the link for the rest.

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*Mark Twain.

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Cancel Culture 0

Chris Hayes dissects the Trump maladministration’s actions to cancel voices that hurt Donald Trump’s fee-fees.

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The Honored Guest 0

Donald Trump hosting

Via Daily Kos.

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The Waste Land 0

No, not the poem by T. S. Elliot, though it is indeed an excellent poem.

Our environment, once Donald Trump finishes ravaging and ravishing it.

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Electric Bugaboo 0

Apparently, Tesla reckons that what you don’t know can’t hurt them.

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