Author's archive
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
- Thom hears a rhyme
From another time
When men in hoods
Roamed the woods,
With crosses ablaze
Through nights and days.
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*Mark Twain.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Politeness takes to the seas intracoastal waterway.
Instead of “road rage,” I guess this must be “water rage.”
Republican Thought Police 0
Der Spiegel takes a deep dive into Republican attempts to suppress dissenting views. A snippet:
Follow the link for context.
The Rule of Lawless 0
In a longer article about Donald Trump’s use of the National Guard to subjugate those who might disagree with his edicts occupy American cities, Roy S. Johnson decodes de code:
Translation: Trump is sending American troops to “protect” his swelling flotilla of barely-trained, masked and thuggish ICE agents who are attacking brown and Black people, including children and the elderly, even in their homes, as they did this week in Chicago.
Meta: Sidebar 0
I’ve deactivated the Blue Delaware RSS feed over there ——> on the sidebar, as the site seems to be experiencing issues and the feed is currently not working.
The Rule of Lawless 0
David suggests that we are seeing
. . . authoritarian theater at its worst.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Grunge_e_Gene hears a rhyme that sounds a lot like “Blackwater.”
You remember Blackwater, do you not, the security firm mercenaries from the Great and Glorious Patriotic War for a Lie in Iraq?
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*Mark Twain.
Republican Thought Police 0
Anita Chabria conjugates the latest con from Donald Trump’s Ministry of Truth.
The Medicine Show 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Vanessa LoBue notes that “. . . blaming mothers for autism is as old as the diagnosis itself” and goes on to debunk de bunk spread by flawed research and the Trump maladministration.
Republican Thought Police 0
Michael in Norfolk interprets the intent of the indoctrination.
“The ‘E’ Word” 0
David offers a theory as to why Donald Trump is okay with shutting down the federal government.