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Typhoid Bobby 0

Cartoon showing RFK Jr.'s new vaccine adviosry panel:  RFK Jr. and a panel of communicable diseases.

Via Job’s Anger.

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Influencer Idiocy 0

Who cares about the effects on others when you can get clicks and likes?

One more time, “social” media isn’t.

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Phoning It In 0

Florida Man.

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Product Tampering 0

Florida Man.

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Fly the Fiendly Skies 0

They get fiendlier every day.

We are a society of stupid.

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“The Big White Lines” 0

Sam and the crew find themselves somewhat taken aback by a Louisiana legislator’s bill to ban contrails (or, to use wingnut conspiracy lingo, “chem trails”).

The stupid. It burns.

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Devolution 0

Apparently, there is a growing group of supposedly educated persons who don’t believe in the existence of germs. (I’m certain that the germs just can’t wait to make their acquaintance.)

We are a society of stupider.

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The Medicine Show 0

RFK Jr. swimming in polluted Rock Creek says,

Click for the original image.

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Devolution 0

Title:  The March of Science.  Image:  RFK Jr. kicking a scientist off a cliff.

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Fly the Fiendly Skies 0

They get fiendlier every day.

I’m so old, I can remember when traveling via airline was fun.

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Our Society Is in Decay 0

Exhibit One: Florida Man.

Afterthought:

I don’t think it’s much of a stretch to posit that today’s Republican Party has abandoned the concept of “promoting the general welfare.”

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The Casting Grouch 0

The Arizona Republic’s E. J. Montini thinks he knows why Donald Trump is filling his maladministration with unqualified Fox News personalities. Here’s a bit of his theory:

Trump doesn’t seem to think of his job as putting together a government, but as auditioning actors to play bit parts in the televised extravaganza of which he is the star.

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A Man-Boy and His Toy Box 0

Or you can read the transcript.

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The Sword of Dummycles 0

It turns out that the Force wasn’t actually with him.

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Cheese Struck 0

Florida Woman.

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The Dolly Parting 0

Seth takes a closer look at Donald Trump’s becoming obsessed with the idea that children only need one or two dolls as a response to his tariffs leading to higher costs and shortages.

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The New Isolationism 0

By imposing his tariffs, Trump is, for all practical purposes, putting the United States behind a self-imposed isolationist blockade.

Michael in Norfolk runs the numbers. A snippet:

For now, the worse impacts are on the West Coast ports where traffic is down an estimated 35% with further declines likely to come.

Because isolationism worked so well the last time . . . .

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The Dickens You Say! 0

Florida Man.

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Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0

Capable of scuttling a legitimate research project because, though the intelligence may be artificial, the stupid is real?

Darn tootin’.

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The Secretary of Indefensible 0

At El Reg, Jessica Lyons takes a deep dive into “signalgate” and concludes that,

(i)f creating a culture of security is the goal, America is screwed.

Follow the link for her reasoning.

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