Too Venal for Words category archive
Real Big Men 0
Via the Hartford Courant, military veteran Peter Kilduff looks at Pete Hegseth’s testosterone fetish and finds himself moved to poesy:
Follow the link for context.
Influencer Idiocy 0
Guilty! Guilty! Guilty! of mean for the sake of mean.
Froma Harrop has more on “influencers” . . . .
One more time, “social” media isn’t.
Indeed, it seems increasingly antisocial.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
An accessory after the fact? How about taking a peek under the coverup.
Bread and Circuses, Reprise
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At the Hartford Courant, Thomas Cangelosi muses on what the word “great” seems to mean to Trump and the Trumpettes. A snippet (emphasis added):
But these first principles have been deflated by Trump’s inflated idea of “great.” His idea of great is a big, gaudy spectacle.
Who Can You Trust? 0
Mark Hermann warns us not to choose wrongly, like these persons did.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Via the Miami Herald, Mireille Rebeiz hears a rhyme in Donald Trump’s obsession with marking his territory like my old dog Beau spreading his taint renaming stuff.
Here’s a quatrain from the sonnet:
Sadly, history is rife with examples of dictators and fascists renaming things to glorify themselves, with dangerous consequences.
Follow the link for the–er–rather disturbing but quite a propos examples.
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*Mark Twain.
Emoluments 0
It appears that Donald Trump may be presidenting for profit.
The Climates They Are a-Changing . . . 0
. . . and the Trump maladministration seems to thinks that global warming is really cool.
The Name Gamers 0
Ring of Fire’s Josh Gay discusses the TV show South Park’s renaming.
Vaccine Nation 0
It appears that RFK Jr. is succeeding at making measles great again.
Nor Any Drop To Drink . . . . 0
This court claims it never heard of no “general welfare.”
The Entitlement Society 0
His biggest regret is that he got caught.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
A willing co-conspirator? At Above the Law, Joe Patrice tells of a lawyer who asked ChatGPt to tilt the scales of justice in his client’s favor.
This New Gilded Age 0
In case you wonder why the first Gilded Age gave rise to the union movement, this example from our New Gilded Age might help dispel said wonder.
War Games 0
Farron discusses how the Trump maladministration is mistreating America’s troops, specifically the sailors on the USS Abraham Lincoln, because (just my opinion) said maladministration thinks like four-year-olds playing war with toy soldiers in a sandbox.
Parks and Wreck 0
Donald Trump continues his assault on what Wallace Stegner called “America’s best idea.”
Aside:
If he can’t monetine it, Trump has no use for it.