2025 archive
The Rule of Lawless 0
At The Denver Post, Krista Kafer details the undoing of due process.
Aside:
The most disturbing thing, of course, is that some members of Congress, persons who have sworn to support and defend the Constitution, seem quite willing to violate their oaths of office so as to undermine the very rights guaranteed therein.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much? 0
Intellectually stimulating? Let’s talk about the bridge I’ve got for sale in Brooklyn.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
The Arizona Republic’s Laurie Roberts wonders why the Trump maladministration is punishing persons for playing by the rules. A snippet:
Now, Trump is going after people who made appointments to come into the country legally to seek asylum — people who were issued court dates and showed up for those hearings.
Suffer the Children 0
As we know, that’s Republican policy. Here’s more evidence: Farron looks at the potential effects of Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” on America’s children.
Read the report that Farron discusses.
The Storms This Time 0
Michael in Norfolk explains why, despite what Elon Musk and his minions may think, having a properly-funded Weather Bureau (to use the phrase that was common when I was a young ‘un) is a good thing.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Apparently, she wanted her politeness to go viral . . . .
MPD said the girl was inside an apartment handling a gun while filming a video for social media when the gun went off, striking her in the torso.
“Social” media is a quicksand, and our society is sinking rapidly.
Courting Disaster 0
Writing at the Washington Monthly, George Thomas expresses–er–concerns that we cannot rely on the Supreme Supremacist Court to check Donald Trump’s attempts to roll back the clock to the 1950s (or, for that matter, the 1850s, which methinks is where his heart am longin’ to go).
QOTD 0
Ann Baker, in the voice of Corliss Archer, speaking about her boyfriend Dexter:
Meet Corliss Archer is a very early TV sitcom, based on an even earlier radio sitcom. It is an absolute hoot.
I’m watching it on Tubi.
Our Society Is in Decay 0
Exhibit One: Florida Man.
Afterthought:
I don’t think it’s much of a stretch to posit that today’s Republican Party has abandoned the concept of “promoting the general welfare.”
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
In a polite society, disagreements are to be resolved with politeness, are they not?
Constitutional Frights 0
Sam and the crew discuss the Trump administration’s desire to suspend habeus corpus, among other Constitutional Rights, and their apparent ignorance of what the Constitution actually says.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Via the Charlotte Observer, the Los Angeles Times’s Karen Musalo hears a rhyme of refugees betrayed a long time ago.
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*Mark Twain.
Germy Warfare 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Jay K. Varma, physician and former staffer at the CDC, writes of the increasing number of persons who are rejecting science in favor of voluntary ignorance. He calls the “Germ Deniers.” Here’s how he describes them:
While some extremists outright deny that germs cause illness, most acknowledge their existence but downplay their importance. Some argue that individual factors are the primary problem. A person only gets sick from a microbe because their immune system is weak because of malnutrition or other lifestyle factors. Others argue that other external factors are the “real” causes of most diseases, such as microplastics, food dyes, per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, mercury, and electromagnetic radiation.
He goes on to obliterate their arguments and explain the danger they pose to both public health and the public’s health.
In the light of what’s happening to medical research under the Trump maladministration, I find his article a timely and alarming read.