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QOTD 0

Sam Rayburn:

You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.

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Real Big Men 0

Warning: Language.

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Dis Coarse Discourse 0

Woman reading newspaper says,

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The Privileged F(l)ew 0

An insurrectionist, much to her surprise, is going to jail. A snippet:

Ryan denied in her letter (to the judge–ed.) that a tweet where she wrote that she had “blonde hair white skin a great job a great future and I’m not going to jail” didn’t indicate that she was above the law.

Follow the link for context.

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Gutting Out the Vote 0

The University of Florida exercises its freedom of squelch.

Aside:

The UF’s defense of its actions is a masterpiece of lily-livered weasel-wording.

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The Final Frontier 0

Title:  Humankind;s insatiable need to explore the universe.  Image:  Two space suited astronauts atop a pile of garbage.  One of them is emptying a trash can.  The other says,

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A Second Coming 0

You can’t make this stuff up.

We are a society of stupid.

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Dialectic 0

Badtux.

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QOTD 0

Mark Holma:

Just because it’s old doesn’t mean it’s historic.

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Totally Tubular 0

Cat in tube in cat tower

Afterthought:

You should see the catrobatics when he tries to change his position.

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Follow the Money If You Can 0

Two men walking past a landscape filled with campaign signs.  One carries a briefcase labeled

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Vaccine Nation 0

At Al.com, a physician steps back, takes a larger perspective, and looks at the history of pandemics and vaccines, leading him to wonder what happened to the concept of the common good. Here’s a bit; follow the link for a valuable perspective.

Of course, in the ancient world, it was easy enough to attribute infectious disease to an enraged deity. With that mindset, a logical solution was simply to banish the person who had offended the god or gods in charge.

Aside:

Methinks the “ancient world” isn’t so ancient after all.

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The Alumnus 0

Thom talks with Art Cohen about his experience in exposing the Trump University con.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Yet more politeness at the altar to acquisition.

According to police, the suspect took his mom’s gun from her vehicle and stuck it in his pants. The gun reportedly discharged in the parking lot in front of the Macy’s store and injured the teen in the leg. Nobody else was hurt in the incident.

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Rx: A Big Dose of Catch-22 0

Putting the “con” in “consultation” . . . .

Via C&L, which has commentary.

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

San Marcos, Texas, Police Department sued for tearing a new sheet out of an old book.

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QOTD 0

Oscar Wilde:

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

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The Long Game 0

Man says to Republican Elephant,

Via The Bob Cesca Show Blog.

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The Courage of Their Conniptions 0

Paul Krugman makes a strong case that, in the Republican Party, the craven have capitulated to the crazed. A snippet:

When we talk about the GOP’s moral descent, we tend to focus on the obvious extremists, like the conspiracy theorists who claim that climate change is a hoax and Jan. 6 was a false-flag operation. But the crazies wouldn’t be driving the Republican agenda so completely if it weren’t for the cowards, Republicans who clearly know better but reliably swallow their misgivings and go along with the party line. And at this point crazies and cowards essentially make up the party’s entire elected wing.

Follow the link for his list of examples.

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Vaccine Nation 0

David debunks a deluge of disinformation.

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