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The Apostate’s Creed? 0

Badtux muses on how evangelical “Christians” manage to convince themselves that Donald Trump is their guy.

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

Still remembering Professor Shade, I wonder whether he would find irony in the Republican Party’s transformation into the party of the Secesh.

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Maskless Marauders 0

Man and woman walking.  The man is not wearing a mask; the woman is.  Man says,

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At the link, George Danby, the cartoonist, points out that

In the span of six months, the country has gone from the mantra of “We’re all in this together” to cries of “You can’t make me wear a mask.”

Aside:

I don’t remember a “we’re all in this together” period, nope, not at all.

And speaking of masks, I am again reminded of Professor Bill Shade’s mantra that history is irony.

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Poll Position on the Path to Pariah 0

Read the report that David discusses.

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Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0

A pyromanic Trumpling.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Be polite to the players.

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The Horse Race 0

The Orlando Sentinel’s Scott Maxwell has had it up to here with polls and the horse race election coverage. An excerpt:

But the best reason to oppose poll-driven coverage is that it’s a shallow and superficial approach to cover politics that doesn’t inform the electorate and instead actually dumbs it down.

Follow the link for his evidence.

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QOTD 0

Geraldine Brooks:

We are not the only animal that mourns; apes do, and elephants, and dogs. Yet we are the only one that tortures.

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“The Rabbit Hole” 0

At Psychology Today Blogs, Joe Pierre discusses some factors which may make persons fall down what he refers to as “the rabbit hole” of believing in QAnon. Here’s an excerpt; follow the link for the entire piece and some related links.

QAnon also includes other facets that are appealing to some that can serve as “hooks” that lure people into the world of QAnon. There’s obviously a central pro-Trump/anti-liberal component, but there’s also considerable overlap with evangelical Christianity and its looming apocalyptic battle between good and evil. And now there’s overlap with people who are concerned about child sex trafficking, with QAnon highjacking #SaveTheChildren. Curiously however, those who are “hooked” from this angle are able to turn a blind eye to President Trump’s own friendship with Jeffrey Epstein or the several charges made against him about sexual assault of minors, which amounts to a classic case of cognitive dissonance and confirmation bias.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Play politely.

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Maskless Marauders 0

Sam and his crew struggle to understand maskless morons.

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Kanye Imagine That? 0

Mike Murphy muses about a potential dream ticket.

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Florida Man Moves To Ban Dissent 0

Words fail me.

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Twits on Twitter 0

Jim Wright tackles (rhetorically, that is) a twit.

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The Lesson 0

Teacher standing in front of class with pull-down map of the United States says,

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QOTD 0

Martin Rees:

When I discover I’m wrong, I change my mind. What do you do?

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Tunes for the Times 0

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Republican Revisionism 0

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Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0

A Tarheel Trumpling.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Yet more neighborly politeness . . . .

A Hummelstown man is charged with discharging a firearm after he fired a gun in his apartment, which traveled into the neighboring unit.

(snip)

Responding officers went to the apartment where Roque Stella-Colon, 18, said he fired one gunshot inside his home by accident, according to police.

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An 11-year-old in the neighboring apartment suffered a cut to the chin from flying debris, police said.

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