2025 archive
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
Competent legal advisor? Not according to this judge.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
News item:
Even if there’s little or no truth to this report, that persons are willing to believe it shows the extent that mean for the sake of mean has become an accepted Republican family value.
The Grift of Graft 0
At the Detroit Free Press, Devin Scillian follows the money all the way to Qatar.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Once again we learn that politeness is a family value.
The Rule of Lawless 0
“Vengeance is mine,” sayeth the Don:
A Notion of Immigrants 0
The Rude One looks at Donald Trump’s attempt to undo birthright citizenship and argues forcefully (and rudely) that “there Is no ‘America’ without birthright citizenship.”
Here’s a bit from his article (slightly expurgated); follow the link for the rest.
Aside:
Donald Trump himself, as a descendant of immigrants, has benefited from that very birthright citizenship he would deny to others, yet he seems eager to take us back to the days–and to the era–before it was passed.
In an Alternate Universe 0
What would it have been like had a Donald Trump been our first president?
Inquiring minds don’t really want to know, but now they do.

Via Job’s Anger.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
The new blow-up dall? No air pump needed, baby!
Republican Thought Police 0
The EFF looks the latest Republican strategy to squelch dissent: To give the executive branch power to unilaterally strip the tax exempt status from organizations it doesn’t like by dubbing them “terrorist supporting organizations.” Here’s a bit from their article (emphasis added):
“Get Me Dewrite!” 0
It would appear that the Trump maladministration believes that what we don’t know can’t hurt it.








