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The New Look 0
Aside:
I intended for this post to pop Monday, but bobbled it.
I reset it to appear on Monday morning.
Birds of a Feather 0
Farron points out that the Republican Party is reaping what it sowed.
And it is endangering all of us.
It’s Deja Vu All Over Again 0
A letter to the editor of the Portland Press-Herald points out that we’ve seen this show before.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another person was fondling “cleaning” a firearm and offed yet another child.
Thus passeth another child in NRA Paradise.
Ready, Fire, What Comes Next I Forget 0
Paul Krugman considers Donald Trump’s performance at NATO and dissects the madness behind his method. A snippet:
The institutions Trump is trying to destroy were all created under U.S. leadership in the aftermath of World War II. Those were years of epic statesmanship — the years of the Berlin airlift and the Marshall Plan, in which America showed its true greatness. For having won the war, we chose not to behave like a conqueror but instead to build the foundations of lasting peace.
(snip)
And what Trump is trying to do is undermine that system, making bullying great again.
Follow the link for the rest.
A Simple Stand for an E-Box 0
I mentioned earlier that, thanks to a lightning strike, I recently purchased a ThinkPenguin E-Box computer. To free up some desk space, I built a simple little stand for it using bits and pieces of lumber in my scrap this-will-come-in-handy pile.
Russian Impulses 0
Shaun Mullen keeps track of the Russia investigation so I don’t have to.
