Author's archive
Television Comedy 0
“There’s One Now” 0
Dick Polman muses about how to spot a sociopath.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Be polite to your neighbors.
Authorities say the bullet struck a dresser near where a man was sitting. He wasn’t hurt.
In a somewhat unusual note, charges are pending.
A Question of Identity 0
David Pakman interviews Amanda Marcotte, discussing the right wing’s identity politics and double-standards. Whether or not you agree with all the points made in the discussion, it’s worth a listen.
Russian Impulses 0
Shaun Mullen reports on Manifest Manafort Destiny while mincing no words. A snippet:
For openers, Manafort’s entire career has been one exercise in evil after another.
(snip)
The distance between circumstantial and provable can be substantial. But if the Russia scandal has taught us nothing else beyond the fact that virtually every key Trump player is a bad actor, it is that if something looks like a coincidence, it almost certainly is not.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Be polite in public discourse.
The Kitsap Sun reports no one was injured during the Thursday event.
The story goes on the report that the fumble-fingers who dropped his portable penis “sheepishly” returned to retrieve it.
QOTD 0
Robert van Gulik:
Most tricks look easy when they are done well.
van Gulik, Robert, The Haunted Monastery (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997), p. 167
