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Foxy Shady 0
Seth takes a closer look at how Fox News is laying groundwork its coverage of next week’s debate.
Monetization Nation, Reprise 0
Bob Molinaro, sportswriter extraordinaire, follows the money (emphasis in the original):
The market: In August, Ohio State is making each of its first four football practices available to a few hundred fans for $50 a ticket. You may have noticed that everything in college sports is for sale.
Foxy Shady 0
David dissects the dissimulation (Warning: Short commercial at the end).
Establishmentarians 0
PoliticalProf notes an unintended inference.
A Pillow of the Community 0
Judge to Mike Lindell: Your pillow has no case.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Thom hears a rhyme.
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*Mark Twain.
The Blueprint 0
Via C&L, John Oliver parses the plan.
A Visit to the Demented Disco 0
Dick Polman notes that, once again, Donald Trump danced the electric bugaboo.
A Legend in His Own Mind 0
At the Portland Press-Herald, Donna Halverson identifies the trait that she thinks makes Donald Trump unfit to hold public office. A snippet:
Narcissists project their mistakes onto others by manipulation, putdowns, intimidation and bullying.
Which is why Trump continues to cling to the idea that the 2020 election was stolen from him because the truth – that he lost – represents failure, something narcissists don’t accept. It’s why he also claimed to have been “wrongfully convicted” in his recent trial.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
And another “responsible gun owner” confirms that phrase to be an oxymoron:
The initial investigation revealed that the child accidentally shot himself with a handgun that belonged to his father. The handgun, for which the owner has a permit, was recovered at scene.
The child may indeed have “accidentally” shot himself, being too young to understand the consequences of his actions, but, without question, the parent with gross negligence allowed the child to access the portable phallus.
We are a broken society.
Lab Leak Lunacy 0
Rebecca Watson explores the susceptibility of some to the COVID “lab leak” theory, which is supported by zero evidence whatsoever, and what that theory’s persistence portends for the polity. Her analysis motivates one to be less than sanguine about the sagacity of the susceptible. (Warning: Mild language.)
If you prefer, you can read the transcript.
Afterthought:
We are becoming a nation unmoored from factual reality.