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Gutting Out the Vote 0
Steve M. thinks he knows why the Supreme Court overturned North Carolina’s attempt to subvert elections.
He suggests that it was too obvious.
QOTD 0
S. S. Van Dine, in the voice of Philo Vance:
I suppose that almost anything is possible in this illogical world.
Van Dine, S. S. (Willard Huntington Wright), The Scarab Murder Case (Driffield, Yorkshire, UK: Leonaur LTD, 2010), p. 80.
GOP: When the Truth Hurts, Hurt the Truth-Tellers 0
Thom explores how the right-wing is trying to stifle fact-checkers.
Mean Girls 0
Mike Littwin looks at the recent kerfuffle between Lauren Boebert and Margery Taylor Greene on the floor of the United States House of Representative; he argues that it was all about the Benjamins.
Here’s a bit from his article:
A Choice, Not an Echo 0
Tom Harper, in a letter to the editor of the Las Vegas Sun, thinks we have a clear choice in 2024:
Do you want a president who fully recognizes that no man is above the law, or an autocratic crook?
I find myself confronting an inability to take exception to his reasoning, which you may review by accessing the Uniform Resource Locator referenced herein above.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Self-politeness is the politest kind.
And yet more evidence that “responsible gun owner” is an oxymoron.
Guns and stupid, guns and stupid.
They go together like love and Cupid.
Let me tell you brother,
You can’t have one without the other.
Vaccine Nation 0
Aside:
What flummoxes me most about the anit-vaxxers is that they are able to ignore over three two centuries of history, since the creation of the first smallpox vaccine through polio to measles to mumps, that prove vaccines work.
I’m old enough to remember pictures on my telly vision of children in iron lungs because of polio, then the vaccines came along and polio went away, for Pete’s sake.
We are a society of stupid.
Base Desires 0
David Atkins suggests that those who believe that Donald Trump, billionaire donors, or even Fox News is in charge to the Republican Party are, as my old boss would have said, in error. Here’s a bit from his article:
Follow the link for his reasoning.
The Climates They Are a-Changing 0
Meanwhile, a Kansas Republican wants to have his cake and eat it too.
Phoning It In 0
Honest to Betsy, you can’t make this stuff up.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
. . . and another oxymoronic “responsible gun owner” exposes a child to politeness.
Diogenes MAGA 0
Mark Hermann has a wonder:
I’m just a typical MAGA Republican searching for the truth. Whose word can I trust?
Follow the link to join him on his quest.