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Essay Question 0
What is the difference between Donald Trump’s threatened (as of this writing) “state of emergency” and a coup d’etat?
Justify your answer.
Weak Decaf 0
Farron roasts the Man Who Ruined Coffee.
Just the Vaxx, Ma’am, Reprise 0
The stupid. It burns.
QOTD 0
Rex Stout, in the voice of Nero Wolfe:
I try to know what I need to know. I make sure to know what I want to know.
Stout, Rex, Please Pass the Guilt (New York: Viking, 1973), p. 3.
Break Time 0
Off to drink liberally.
Just the Vaxx, Ma’am 0
David reports on teens in Australia who are defying their anti-vaxx parents in order to get vaccinations.
I’m old enough to remember images on my telly vision of children stricken with polio in iron lungs.
I have no patience with the stupidity and gullibility of anti-vaxxers.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Politeness takes a break.
Thus passeth another day in NRA Paradise.
Manafort Destiny 0
Shaun Mullen takes a deep dive into what he refers to as the “twisted saga” of Paul Manafort.
Originalist Sin 0
Brian O’Neill writes of the connection between the Second Amendment and slavery and the farcical Supreme Court ruling, authored by “Constitutional originalist” Antonin Scalia, that resulted from Scalia’s willfully ignoring the origins said amendment.
