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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

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Misdirection Play 0

Michael in Norfolk looks inside the Trojan Horse of “parents’ rights.” Here’s a bit of his piece:

The mantra of racist and anti-LGBT legislators as they seek to ban books and erase history they don’t like and LGBT students in general is that they are protecting “parental rights.” However, the real agenda is to please knuckle dragging evangelicals and Christofascists who want to sanitize history of the rampant racism that defined the Jim Crow era and want to send LGBT individuals back into the shadows . . . .

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Dis Coarse Discourse, Both Sides Don’t Dept. 0

Title:  Bipartisan Reflections.  Image:  TV host:  Welcome to Punditspew!  With me is Democratic strategist Dan Doormat and Chairman of the Power Patriots for Fiery National Cleansing, Mr. Perkins.  Dan Doormat:  Hello.  Mr. Perkins (with fire coming out of his mouth:  Die!  Host:  Gentlemen, what are your thoughts on the Trump indictment?  Dan Doormat:  Well, it's the least that----.  Mr. Perkins (with fire coming out of his mouth:  Biden is a wannabe dictator crushing our children under his big gat Communist jackboots.  Buckle up!  It's a war on the Republic!  Know your bridges!  An eye for an eye!  Mr. Perkins:  Um-----.   Host:  Some say that Biden should pardon him as a healing gesture.  Dan Doormat:  I think enforcing the law is the best-----.  Mr. Perkins (with fire coming out of his mouth:  We shall vanquish their bepronouned storm troopers and install our righteous king!

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Misty Water-Colored Memories 0

Title:  The Greatest Generation.  Image:  Four old men and women.  Old man says,

Via Job’s Anger.

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Vaccine Nation 0

Dr. Peter Hotex is harassed in Houston for having the unmitigated gall to believe in proven fact.

I tell you, the stupid-larity is upon us.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Children should be polite to parents.

A pregnant woman was shot and killed by a 2-year-old at a home in Norwalk Friday, according to an investigation report provided by Norwalk Police.

Just another day in NRA Paradise.

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The Disinformation Superhighway 0

People worry about the “singularity.

They should be worrying about the stupid-larity.

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QOTD 0

Bob Newhart, in the voice of Robert Hartley:

There is a differnce between little white lies and science fiction.

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The Graham Cracker 0

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A Taxonomy of Trumpettes 0

Title:  The Two Types of Trump Supporters.  Frame One, captioned

Via Job’s Anger.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Once more, politeness becomes child’s play.

Thus passeth another day in NRA Wonderland.

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Mean for the Sake of Mean 0

Sam and his crew call out the cruelty.

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The News Recycle 0

Rebecca Watson looks at some recent reports about two apparently unrelated topics: UFOs and COVID. She argues that, as dissimilar as the topics may seem, the news reports have something in common: they are not “news,” they are warmed up leftovers. A bit:

      1. Both are masquerading as “news” when in fact there doesn’t appear to be any new information we didn’t already know for at least a year
      2. Both have no solid evidence to back them up . . .

Follow the link for solid evidence of the lack of evidence.

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Profiles in Courage 0

Shack labeled

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Extortion Contortions 0

At the Hartford Courant, Democratic Congressman John Larson argues forcefully that the debt ceiling as it currently exists is a failed policy. He states (emphasis added)

The debt ceiling as it stands is a failed policy, which gives our worst actors the tools to threaten defaulting on payments they themselves voted for in order to extract concessions.

Follow the link for his reasoning.

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QOTD 0

Carl Jung:

The healthy man does not torture others—generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

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And Now for a Musical Interlude 0

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The Rule of Flaw 0

The writer of a letter to the editor of the Law Vegas Sun nominates the oafs of office.

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Fly the Fiendly Skies 0

Llewellyn King, who travels frequently by air, sounds a warning.

I fly a lot, and I can report that you have no idea what you are in for if you haven’t sought to take a flight recently.

If you want to know what you are indeed “in for,” follow the link.

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The Bullies’ Pulpit 0

We are again reminded that “social” media isn’t.

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