2025 archive
And Now for a Musical Interlude 0
(This post was inspired by a clue in a NYT crossword puzzle from a collection that I’m working my way through. I like crossword puzzles. The NYT has the best. Unlike its reportage.)
A Notion of Immigrants 0
Seth notes that Donald Trump’s pogrom against immigrants appears to be less popular than he might have expected.
“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.
Dis Coarse Discourse 0
(Warning: Short commericial at the end.)
Stray Thought 0
I will be on the road today, but, even if I were not, I would not lower myself to watch Trump pleasuring himself with his military blow-up doll parade.
Sporadic Blogery 0
Family matters. I shall be attending a nuptial ceremony.
What passes for normal in these parts will resume in a couple of days. In the meantime, QOTD will hold down the fort.
Republican Thought Police 0
The Arizona Republic’s Laurie Roberts writes about Arizona’ state Superintendent of Schools Tom Horne, who’s position on a history book that contains actual history can be summarized as “I haven’t read the book, and you shouldn’t either.”
I commend her article to your attention.
Aside:
As one who trained as an historian, I find today’s Republican Party’s efforts to claim that history wasn’t to be particularly offensive. And stupid. And insidiously, invidiously harmful to the polity.
Break Time 0
Off to drink liberally.