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No End in Sight 0
Jane Harman, former Congressperson and current president of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, ponders the pressure for yet another Great and Glorious War for a Lie with a Country whose Name Starts with “I.” She recalls Colin Powell’s speech mongering the Great and Glorious War for a Lie in Iraq.
A snippet:
Much later, Powell would call his U.N. speech a “great intelligence failure” and a “blot” on his record.
Plus ca Change 0
Farron remarks on the Party of No Ideas.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
The hunt for politeness continues . . .
(snip)
“He got out of the car, chambered a round — when the round was chambered, the gun accidentally went off,” Griffeth.
. . . and yet another gun is reported to have fired itself.
In the Zone 0
Update: Grammatical erorrs correxted.
At The Charlotte Observer, Mary Newsom reminds that “single family residence” zoning (as opposed to residential vs. industrial vs. commercial zoning”) has its origins in racism. A nugget:
Meanwhile, federal rules and redlining kept black families from getting mortgages, and housing developers couldn’t get financing without whites-only covenants in the deeds.
The Initiation 0
I’ve cited this quotation from Lyndon Johnson before, but it bears repeating, because we are watching it play out during every day of the Trumpling:
Image via Juanita Jean.
Misdirection Play 0
The Washington Post goes down the rabid hole.
Antidisestablishmentarians* 0
The Rude One points out the obvious that’s so obvious no one else I’ve seen or heard, including me, has noticed it.
The recent wave of abortion restrictions in states such as Alabama are prima facie establishment of religion (warning: rudeness at the link).
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*Look it up.