The Man Who Would Be King 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Frederick L. Coolidge offers a guide to understanding dictators, autocrats, and bullies. I found it a worthwhile read in these Trumpled times.
Two of his main points in particular reminded me of someone in the news:
- People with personality disorders are often egosyntonic (unbothered) about their own behavior.
- People with personality disorders are also unaware of their effect upon others.
Snakes on a Brain 0
Seth discusses the bizarre story about snakes that Donald Trump told during the White House Christmas reception.
Republican Family Values 0
Yet more confirmation that mean for the sake of mean is a Republican family value.
Stray Question 0
Is there any little thing more depressing than a blow-up Santa Claus collapsed lifeless and empty in someone’s front yard on a bright December day?
Signal Failure 0
At Above the Law, Mark Herrmann reveals that he is less than impressed by the actions of our Secretary of Playing War, particularly his careless use of the Signal app.
I commend his article to your attention.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
At AL.com, John Archibald looks at the behavior of Tommy Tuberville, who wants to be Alabama’s next governor, and sees George Wallace rising again.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Another “responsible gun owner” chooses to flaunt his portable phallus whilst traversing the nation’s traveling trails.
Guns 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.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
For some fool reason, I seem to hear a rhyme in this statement of the Commander of the U. S. S. Gravely upon its return from patrolling the Caribbean against the dangers posed by Venezuelan fishing boats (emphasis added):
“I follow the news. I also follow the orders of the Secretary of War and the President of the United States, and so that’s what we carry out,” he said.
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*Mark Twain.
American Stasi 0
Sam and the crew discuss ICE agents’ ignoring Americans’ Constitutional rights.
Facebook Frolics 0
Fraudulent (adjacent at the very least) frolics.
One more time, “social” media isn’t.
It’s not the public square, although it seems like it.
It’s a series of private squares and their rulers manipulate them as they wish.