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“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0

Via The Japan Times, Kaushik Basu hears a rhyme goosestepping through history.

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*Mark Twain.

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January 3, 2026 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Political Theatre, Politics of Hate |

Some Poesy 0

Courtesy of the Rude One.

Warning: Rudeness.

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January 3, 2026 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Political Theatre |

QOTD 0

Galen:

The fact is that those who are enslaved to their sects are not merely devoid of all sound knowledge, but they will not even stop to learn!

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January 3, 2026 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

A Tune for the Times 0

Warning: Mild language.

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January 2, 2026 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Political Theatre |

“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Once again, an oxymoronic “responsible gun owner” has exposed a portable phallus to a child.

According to unconfirmed police dispatch reports, another child accidentally shot the boy after finding a gun in the home.

The 7-year-old was taken to Stroger Hospital in serious condition.

We are a broken society.

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January 2, 2026 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Gunnuttery |

The Next Redaction 0

Image of the Constitution with all words blacked out excetp for

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January 2, 2026 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Political Theatre, Republican Hypocrisy |

The Rule of Lawless 0

Mary Trump discusses Donald Trump’s turning the United States Department of Justice into the Donald Trump Department of Retribution.

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January 2, 2026 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Political Theatre, Politics of Hate |

Navigating the New Year 0

Mrs. Betty Bowers offers some advice for 2026. Methinks she makes soem good points.

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January 2, 2026 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Political Theatre |

Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0

A bearer of false witness? NJ.com reports:

Canadian musician Ashley MacIsaac is expressing concern about his safety and has even lost a gig over an erroneous Google AI summary that incorrectly labeled him as a sex offender.

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January 2, 2026 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Geek Stuff |

A Notion of Immigrants 0

Ruben Navarrett Jr. unpacks the ten biggest lies about immigrants. Here’s one; follow the link for the others.

“Immigration enforcement is about the rule of law.” Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are under so much pressure to meet a daily quota of 3,000 arrests that they break the law to enforce the law. They scrapped due process, engaged in racial profiling, abandoned their own standard of “reasonable suspicion” before a search, and brutalized U.S. citizens. There is no rule of law, only the law of the jungle.

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January 2, 2026 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: "That Conversation about Race", Politics of Hate |

QOTD 0

Hayley Mills, in the voice of Lizzy Thornfield:

They say that time is a great healer, but that’s a lie. When you lose someone you love, the pain never goes away.

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January 2, 2026 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

A Tune for the Times 0

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January 1, 2026 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Political Theatre |

The Oath Bleeper 0

Title: America's New Foreign Policy. Image: Group of persons behind a rmapart under the U. N. flag. May looking through telescope says,

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January 1, 2026 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Political Theatre, Republican Hypocrisy |

And the Winner Is . . . . 0

John Young offers his selection for the hypocrite of 2025.

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January 1, 2026 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Hypocrisy Watch |

Songs Come True, Everybody Knows One 0

They tied his wallaby down, sport.

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January 1, 2026 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: First Looks |

The Resolution 0

Donald Trump holding a bloodstained paper in blood-spotted hands. The paper reads,

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January 1, 2026 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Political Theatre |

Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

At the Las Vegas Sun, Eric Foster decodes de code.

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January 1, 2026 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: "That Conversation about Race", Culture Warriors, Politics of Hate, The Secesh |

“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Self-politeness is the politest kind.

The incident happened around 6:20 a.m. near Morgan Road and Reno Avenue. Police told KOCO 5 that the man was holding a gun when it went off and hit him on the back of his legs.

And another gun that is implied to have fired itself . . . .

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January 1, 2026 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Gunnuttery |

QOTD 0

Thomas Hardy:

The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.

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January 1, 2026 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

Good Riddance 2025 0

Train wreck

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December 31, 2025 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: First Looks |
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