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The “Kavanaugh Defense” 0
Elie Mystal explains how it works. Here’s a snippet:
Follow the link for a more nuanced explanation.
Plus ca Change 0
You can take the host out of Fox News, but you can’t take the Fox News out of the host.
The ignorance, it burns.
Flagging Interests 0
Aside:
I was having connectivity problems again today. According to my most excellent hosting provider, everything was okay at their end. We’ll see what tomorrow brings.
Afterthought:
If you have experienced connectivity issues, particularly timeouts (which is what I was getting), please let me know. There’s an email link over there (—->) on the sidebar. The more information I have, the easier it will be to figure this out.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Once again, politeness turns out to be child’s play.
Police say the woman had just walked out of the room for a minute, unaware of the gun, which wasn’t readily visible. That’s when investigators say the child found it and accidentally shot himself.
QOTD 0
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach:
Nowadays people are born to find fault. When they look at Achilles, they see only his heel.
A Separate Reality (Updated) 0
The Republican Party has decided to tell itself stories about domestic terrorism. Here’s a bit from the report at TPM; follow the link for the complete article.
Without any evidence, members of the far-right media, think tank heads, and Twitter activists shared their conspiratorial theories on social media.
Today’s Republican party is a vile and loathsome (not to mention delusional and dangerous) thing clear and present danger to the polity; it demonstrates the degree to which we have become a society of stupid.
Addendum, Late that Same Evening:
There is no truth to the rumor that I’m trying to start that the Republican Party intends to rename itself the “Pipe Bomb Party.”
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Politeness with your paramour is paramount.
The couple was parked at America’s Best Value Inn near Airline Drive and the North Freeway about 1:35 a.m. when the weapon discharged, the Houston Police Department said. Investigators believe the man was either showing off or simply playing around with the weapon when it fired.
Thus passeth another day in NRA Paradise.