A Tune for the Times 0
(Warning: Short commercial at about the one minute mark.)
A Notion of Immigrants 0
The Trump maladministration has found a new way to be mean for the sake of mean:
They are now denying naturalization ceremonies to immigrants who have qualified for and wish to obtain American citizenship.
Sporadic Bloggery 0
Things to do.
QOTD 0
Jason Hughes, in the vovice of DS Ben Jones:
The law, Mr. Perkins, is like the Bible. You can always find one quote to contradict another.
War and Mongers of War 0
At Above the Law, Mark Hermann isn’t buying the Trump maladministration’s rationale–irrationale would be more like it–for attacking Venezuelan fishing boats on the open sea. Here’s a tiny bit of his post:
Go read the rest.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Ruben Navarrette looks at Donald Trump’s statements about Somali immigrants and hears a rhyme. A snippet:
Donald Trump took another path, opting instead to channel George Wallace, David Duke and Archie Bunker.
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*Mark Twain.
Unintended Consequences 0
As I have mentioned before, my professor of the early federal period during my one year of grad school, Dr. Bill Shade, was fond of saying, “History is irony.”
Thos points out a rather delightful irony.
Aside:
I dropped out of grad school without getting my masters and with having realized that a career in academia was not for me.
I landed in a very satisfying career as a corporate trainer, I do not regret the year I spent in grad school (if nothing else, I got to take a class from Bill Shade), but driving home in the UHaul with the few bits of furniture from my basement apartment after dropping out was one of the two times in my life that I literally felt a weight lift from my shoulders.
Teaching persons how to do their jobs turned out to be a very rewarding occupation.
Twits on Twitter X Offenders
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Who woulds thunk?
Elon Musk is propagating prejudiced political prevarications on Xitter.
One more time, “social” media isn’t.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
When cliches come to life . . . .
Yes, he shot himself in the foot while playing with a portable phallus.
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.
Echoes of Immorality 0
Does this article remind you of anyone in the news?
Stray Thought 0
Plato posited a philosopher king.
We opted for a philanderer king.
American Stasi 0
Mary Trump follows the money.