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When Good Enough Is Good Enough 0

Stuart Brotman points explains how the perfect is the enemy of the good. Here’s a bit; follow the link for the evidence.

My point here isn’t that we should lower our collective standards of excellence as a way to diffuse polarization across the ideological spectrum. Rather, we must recognize that in much of life, the 100 percent test is not the one that we should be applying.

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A Notion of Immigrants 0

The edit:

Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
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Meet one of the (many) editors.

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The Medicine Show 0

And, speaking of Ivermectin . . . .

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Fly the Fiendly Skies 0

They get fiendlier every day.

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Correlation 0

Read the report that Farron discusses.

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“It’s Not Easy Being Green” 0

A little while ago, Tucker Carlson aired his sorrow that Mars has changed the look if the green M&M in its commercials to be “less sexy.”

A former green M&M (that is, a woman who performed as a green M&M in on-street ad campaigns) explains why she favors the change. A snippet:

While wearing my foam go-go boots and shimmying in my Green shell I heard a steady stream of skeevy quips “You can melt in my hand and my mouth,” or the ever-charming “I like the green ones. They’re supposed to make you horny.”

It would not shock me if Carlson is out on 42nd Street right now pawing some former coworker of mine trying to get one last grope in before it’s too late.

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QOTD 0

H. P. Lovecraft:

Imagination is a very potent thing, and in the uneducated often usurps the place of genuine experience.

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Recommended Listening 0

More Tish, by Mary Roberts Rinehart.

This is an absolute hoot!

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Inundation 0

Woman watching TV news.  Voice from the TV says,

Click for the original image.

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School Daze 0

Lady Liberty says to Uncle Sam,

Click to view the original image.

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“Let Them Eat Cake” 0

The Orlando Sentinel’s Scott Maxwell excoriates a proposed law designed to perpetuate poor pay and poverty in Florida.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Politeness can be a challenge.

We are a society of stupid.

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The Republican Contract on America 0

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Picturing the Fifth Column 0

GOP Elephants standing around a tank driven by Putin, which has crushed a figure labeled

Via Juanita Jean.

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Just as Stupid as You Thought They Were 0

Truckers who need to check their GPS locations.

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QOTD 0

Anacharsis:

Written laws are like spiders’ webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them.

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Recommended Listening 0

Vicky Van, by Carolyn Wells.

Yes, the conclusion is nonsensical, but it is a darned good tale.

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A Tune for the Times 0

From the Youtube page:

Trump loves to “go with a winner”, and he sees Vladimir Putin as a HUGE winner of late, making major real estate acquisitions with very little investment of his own, just as Trump always did. Trump can’t help but envy Putin’s incredible ability to skip legalities and jump right to the ‘moving-in’ stage. That, and Putin’s ability to look good shirtless give Trump a major case of “nipple envy”, but in a really wholesome, Christian sort of way.

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A Fifth Columnist 0

Margaret Sullivan profiles an American Quisling.

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The Disinformation Superhighway Goes to War . . . 0

. . . with a blistering blitzkrieg of bogosity.

One more time, “social” media isn’t.

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