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Sidney Poitier:

So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness.

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A Tune for the Times 0

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Twits on Twitter 0

Twits who would suffer the children.

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Facts Are What People Think 0

(Warning: Short commercial at the end.)

The stupid. It burns.

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Facebook Frolics 0

The things that you’re liable,
To read in the Bible Facebook,
They ain’t necessarily so.

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Criminal Inactivity 0

Image One:  Texas lawman saying,

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Charles Blow thinks he may have uncovered a common denominator in America’s epidemic of gunnuttery.

No other country has the level of American carnage, but no other country has American Republicans.

Follow the link for his explanation of that statement.

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

Clyde W. Ford points out that there’s nothing new about “replacement theory.”

The flaw is that equality is not “replacement” in any way. Nobody is being “replaced.”

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John Larroquette, in the voice of Dan Fielding:

I’m a lawyer, for God’s sake. I was trained to ruin people’s lives, not save them.

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Suffer the Children, Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Dept. 0

Sam and his crew foresee an effort to return to the days of child labor and sweatshops.

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It’s All about the Benjamins, Reprise 0

At the San Jose Mercury-News, Louis Klarevas, Sonali Rajan and Charles Branas call out the absurdity of the NRA’s plan for the proliferation of portable phalli. Here’s a bit from their article:

. . . there are no elected officials claiming that the only way to stop a bad guy with a bomb is a good guy with a bomb.

One the same topic, the writer of a letter to the editor of The Roanoke Times calls out the misdirection play:

Shooting up a supermarket is not what a well-regulated militia does.

Follow the links for the rest.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

An explosion of politeness

And thus passeth another weekend in NRA paradise.

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It’s All about the Benjamins 0

The Rolling Stone’s Tim Dickinson follows the money.

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The Sell-All Book 0

Title:  The Full Disclosure Book Store.  Image:  Author at a book signing for a book entitled

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A Pillow of the Community 0

Court appears ready to tell Mike Lindell to get stuffed.

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Facebook Frolics 0

Self-incriminating frolics.

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Allan Bloom:

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of property were just what Aristotle did not talk about. They are the conditions of happiness; but the essence of happiness, according to Aristotle, is virtue. So the moderns decided to deal with the conditions and to let happiness take care of itself.

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Birth of a Nation 0

Thom discusses the origins of today’s Republican Party.

Aside:

Would that I were as optimistic as he.

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Suffer the Children 0

One more time, that’s not scripture. That’s Republican policy.

School children and teachers approaching the Pearly Gates.  St. Peter bends down to talk to one of the children, who says,

Via Yellowdoggranny.

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

At the Houston Chronicle, Jeffrey Littlejohn opens a photo album and sees the history that Governors Abbot and DiSantis and their dupes, symps, and fellow travelers don’t want taught in schools.

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