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Lies and Lying Liars 0

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s Gene Collier is fed up with Republicans’ lying about dying.

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Facebook Frolics 0

There’s copyrights, and then there’s copywrongs.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society’ 0

Yet another child is sacrificed to the idol of the portable phallus.

We are a broken society.

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Responsible Fiscals 0

The Congressional Budget Office runs the numbers on Donald Trump’s tax cut billionaire giveaway bill.

As far as I can tell, no matter how you do the math, they do not add up to “responsible.”

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QOTD 0

Valerie Jarrett:

Our democracy… is only as good as the American people demand it should be.

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A Spin Ditty 0

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A Notion of Immigrants 0

At the Tampa Bay Times, John Hill debunks de bunk. A snippet (emphasis added):

If anything, the state looks foolish for having cried wolf about the need for a statewide immigration crackdown. Supporters sold the Florida law as a way to help the Trump administration deport people here illegally who committed violent crimes. At least 79 people have been arrested since Florida’s law went into effect, but only two were charged with a violent crime. Nearly a third have been charged with only an immigration offense. For dozens, their only alleged crime was driving without a license or a seat belt, or with expired tags. Sounds like a normal day on Florida’s roads to me.

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Space Debris 0

Title:  Mission Accomplished.  Image:  Missile labeled

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Once again, an oxymoronic “responsible gun owner” performs a random act of politeness while playing with his portable phallus.

A 65-year-old man was lying in bed with his wife on the first floor when a bullet from the second floor hit him in the back.

He was rushed to the hospital in critical condition.

The shooting, which police believe may have been accidental, happened on the 400 block of North 61 Street around 2 a.m.

A 52-year-old from the second floor told police that he was handling a rifle when it accidentally went off.

Once again, we are reminded that “accidental” and “negligent” are not synonyms.

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This New Gilded Age 0

Thom wonder why the richest country in history is the only wealthy country where working people need welfare to survive.

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“If We Don’t Talk about It, Then It Must Not Have Happened” 0

The Trump maladministration’s attempt to expurgate America’s history of the parts is doesn’t like continues apace.

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

It was supposed to be a father-daughter fishing outing.

It turned into the daughter’s first encounter with a rock-throwing name-calling racist.

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QOTD 0

Kurt Vonnegut:

People need good lies. There are too many bad ones.

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A Tune for the Times 0

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Devolution 0

Apparently, there is a growing group of supposedly educated persons who don’t believe in the existence of germs. (I’m certain that the germs just can’t wait to make their acquaintance.)

We are a society of stupider.

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Stray Question 0

What’s worse, a stupid joke or a stupid joker?

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The Art of the Deal 0

Donald Trump staring at an easel bearing a canvass covered in incomprehensible scribbles and blotches of paint.  The easel is labeled

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A Notion of Immigrants 0

Sam and the crew note that persons are starting to push back at ICE and its brown shirt tactics.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

A little paean to politeness in the park:

    They were strolling through the park one day,
    In the merry merry month of June,
    Then someone pulled out his rod to play
    Upon it a polite little tune.
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The Pool Buoy Boy 0

Florida Man.

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