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Twits Own Twitter X Offenders 0

Above the Law reports that Elon Musk seems ill-deposed.

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The Lake Effect 0

The lake turns out to be an empty well.

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QOTD 0

Kenneth L. Pike:

Today’s practicality is often no more than the accepted form of yesterday’s theory.

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A Tune for the Times 0

Mangy puts a Trump rally to music.

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Postal Destructor 0

Burning building labeled

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The Establishmentarian 0

At the Des Moines Register, Rekha Basu decodes de code. A snippet (emphasis added):

In signing her “Religious Freedom Restoration Act” into law, Gov. Kim Reynolds ironically declared, “The right of religious freedom is endowed upon us by our creator — not government.” But putting government into religion is exactly what she did , and not to promote religious tolerance or core teachings such as loving our neighbors and serving those in need.

The law allows people to cite their religious beliefs to discriminate against others, even in nonsecular, civil society.

Follow the link for her reasoning.

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

Sam and the crew skewer racists’ claims that somehow racists are discriminated against because they are called out for being racist.

Afterthought:

I remember when my father, who grew up under Jim Crow, as did I, said to me late in his life, “I’m glad those days are gone.”

Well, those days–or, more properly, the hatred and bigotry and greed and exploitation (read “theft of labor”) that created them–are not gone, though they may have been slightly in eclipse.

Over half a century ago, Richard Nixon’s odious “Southern Strategy” invited racists to join his political party. Now that “Southern Strategy” has come full circle and consumed Nixon’s party, so that today we have a political party dedicated to bringing back Jim Crow.

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Republican Thought Police 0

Say the New Secesh, “What they don’t know can’t hurt us.”

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Patriot Games 0

Methinks my old Philly DL friend Noz asks a pertinent question.

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“An Armed Society” Is a Polite Society” 0

Yet another “responsible gun owner” demonstrates why said phrase is an oxymoron.

Musical NotesGuns and stupid, guns and stupid.
They go together like love and Cupid.
Let me tell you brother,
You can’t have one without the other.

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QOTD 0

Kerry Greenwood:

Evolution, Phryne sometimes thought, had a long way to go before Homo became even close to sapiens.

Greenwood, Kerry, Murder on a Midsummer Night (Scottsdale: Poisoned Pen Press, 2910) p. 219

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And Now for a Change of Pace 0

I’ve long been a Mancini fan. This has been in my head since I stumbled over Peter Gunn on Tubi last night.

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Reverse Midas 0

Real estate genius, indeed.

Residents at Trump Plaza, a 40-story high-rise in the suburban New York city of New Rochelle, are pushing for the building to be renamed and to escape a near-two decade association with the legally-troubled ex-president and real estate mogul.

It would follow the slew of buildings in New York City and elsewhere that have abandoned the Trump name since he entered politics, as Trump has become a divisive, much-loathed figure by liberals even as he is loved by his fans.

(snip)

In February the New York Times reported that after Trump became president the value of apartments in buildings bearing his name had underperformed market value. Buildings which had stripped the Trump name had seen their value shoot back up.

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Republican Thought Police, Reprise 0

Title:  America's Most Wanted Librarians.  Frame One:  Wanted poster for

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Republican Thought Police 0

David dissects the duplicity (warning: short commercial at the end).

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The Candidates Debase 0

Man stands in doorway and shouts,

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Fly the Fiendly Skies 0

The miles just seem to disappear>

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The Greene Raw Deal 0

Retired Republican Congressman Ken Buck calls out Marjorie Taylor Greene for spreading Russian propaganda. A bit of Buck’s remarks:

You know, during the Russian Revolution, Lenin talked about American journalists who were writing glowing reports about Russia at the time as ‘useful idiots.’ And I don’t even think that Marjorie reaches that level of being a useful idiot here.

Follow the link for more of his remarks and a link to the video.

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QOTD 0

Hannah Arendt:

Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.

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The Content of His Character 0

Bob Costas seems to have a fairly low estimation of Donald Trump. Rick Strom breaks down his remarks; I don’t agree with everything Strom says, but I think he makes some good points, especially when he discusses the far right’s scary “far left” bogeyman.

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