American Stasi 0
Methinks a strong argument can be made that the Trump maladministration’s hiring practices for their in-house KKK ICE agents may be less than optimal.
Unprecedented 0
Mona Charen argues that Donald Trump has raised the bar to heights previously unknown. Here’s a tiny bit from her article (emphasis added):
Your Tax Dollars at Work 0
Farron comments on Donald Trump’s use of taxpayer funds to pay for partisan political ads and on the Trump maladministration’s double talk about his double-dealing.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
A learning tool? At the Psychology Today website, Liz Nissim warns that using “AI can replace the thinking process.”
Follow the link for her reasoning.
Ups and Downs 0
The house bounced. So did the payment.
QOTD 0
J. Robert Oppenheimer:
The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.
Break Time 0
Off to drink liberally.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Another oxymoronic “responsible gun owner.”
Another “unsecured” portable phallus.
Another child in another hospital.
Another day in NRA paradise.
Emoluments 0
Sharon Zhang follows the money.
The Rule of Lawless 0
Seth discusses how Republicans have worked to loosen constraints on presidential power enacted after Watergate and how Donald Trump is capitalizing on that.
What Were the Odds? 0
I wonder whether anyone bet on this in those “prediction markets,” because it was pretty much a given.
More at the link.
Vaccine Nation 0
UCon professor Seth C. Kalichman makes a convincing case that RFK Jr. and the Trump maladministration are gaming the numbers to make it appear that the current measles outbreak isn’t. He writes that the issue
The CDC now counts measles deaths using data from the National Center for Health Statistics, a system designed primarily for tracking mortality trends rather than identifying individual deaths. Previously, measles deaths were counted using reports from state and local health officials. The change at the CDC has left deaths officially recognized by state authorities out of the federal tally.
Follow the link for his reasoning.
Suffer the Children 0
One more time, that’s not scripture. That’s a Republican family value.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
The hunt for politeness meets politeness takes practice:
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Investigators said an individual from a nearby property was target shooting and an errant round struck the 38-year-old hunter who was bow hunting in a hard sided ground blind.
When I was a young ‘un, the one time of the year in which we did not shoot at tin cans in the back yard at Pine View Farm was during hunting season, because there might be hunters in them thar woods in the background of that picture at the top of this blog.
So many guns. So much stupid.