Too Venal for Words category archive
Hatred in the Workplace: A Cavalcade of Craven 0
Over at Above the Law, Richard B. Cohen corrals a flock of work-place discrimination and harassment cases. It’s worse than I could have imagined.
Here’s a bit; follow the link for the herd.
And there were death threats. Death threats! In the workplace!
An assistant manager allegedly told him, “We will hang you. We will seriously lynch you if you call in again this week.” And another asked him if he was “ready to commit suicide,” and even offered him “assistance” if he wanted to do it.
Yes — he was fired.
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
Juanita Jean is on the case.
The “One Drop” Rule 0
Honest to Pete, you can’t make this stuff up.
Death and Rememberance 0
Shaun Mullen marvels at how Donald Trump puts the “Me-Me-Me” in “Memorial.”
Jesus, Mary, and Joseph.
Stray Thought 0
I can’t say I’m a Sasha Baron Cohen fan. I may have seen one of his clips back in the Borat days, and I don’t subscribe to any “premium” television channels. Indeed, I think “premium television” is ipso facto an oxymoron.
Nevertheless, I’m somewhat awed by the deep vein of white-wing stupid he has managed to tap into.
All That Was Old Is New Again 0
The Raleigh News and Observer reports that Rufus Edmisten, who served on the staff of the Watergate Committee, hears a familiar ring in contemporary events. A snippet:
“I think they’re trying to outdo Watergate,” he said of President Trump’s advisers and associates and the president himself. . . .
“If some of the people around Trump would read the Nixon-Watergate playbook, they wouldn’t be doing this foolishness. Instead they are expanding on it,” he said.
Do please read the rest.
Suffer the Children 0
The Trump administration has created a predators’ paradise by ripping children from their parents and putting them on the counters of old Walmarts.
Legal Weasels 0
Honest to Pete, you can’t make this stuff up.
Space Farce 0
In related news, Elie Mystal comments on Trump’s “space force” idea. A snippet:
Image via Job’s Anger.
The Grift in the Gift 0
Josh Marshall thinks he has figured out the “White House Gift Shop,” recently in the news in relation to the Trumpled North Korean summit “commemorative coin.”* A snippet:
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*AFAIC, the coin mostly commemorated hideous in design.