Nor Any Drop To Drink . . . . 0
This court claims it never heard of no “general welfare.”
Thought Police 0
At the Psychology Today website, Matthew Clemente and David Goodman explain why book banning, however pure the book banners’ (think their) motives, is a bad idea. They make four main points:
- In recent years, the calls for censorship and banning books has increased.
- Critiques of the dangerous or immoral nature of literature have been around for thousands of years.
- Yet one of literature’s great strengths is to depict the complexity of the human condition.
- Showing truth through fiction and revealing virtue by depicting vice, literature helps us to mature ethically.
In these censorious times, methinks their article a worthwhile read.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
At my local rag, John W. Roth hears several rhymes from ancient times. Here’s just one; follow the link for more rhyme time.
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*Mark Twain.
Gaming the Numbers 0
David explains how the Trump maladministration is living in fantasy world ignoring economic reality. A quote:
This is what happens when loyalty becomes the principle qualification . . . .
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
University of Dayton professor Art Jipson looks at the right-wing’s response to the Trump maladministration’s farcical indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center for daring to fight against prejudice, bigotry, and racism and argues that
Follow the link, where he decodes de code.
Republican Family Values 0
Ring of Fire’s Josh G. reports on how the Trump maladministration is failing to support the families of soldiers who have lost their lives in Donald Trump’s undeclared war of choice in Iran.
“Republican family values” has always been a con and a scam.
Republicans actual behavior proves it so.
The Name Gamer 0
The stupid. It burns.
I’m trying to decide, do we live in a kleptocracy or a moronarchy?
Or maybe both.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another “responsible gun owner” exposes a portable phallus to a child.
This New Gilded Age 0
The bosses get the doughnuts, the employees get the holes.
The Lame Gamers 0
Warning: Mild language.
“Facts Are What People Think” 0
And the Trump maladministration makes no secret of its wish to control what people think.
Contaminated Clorox 0
That’s a phrase one would not expect to hear, but, in line with what Farron was talking about, it appears that contaminated Clorox is indeed a thing.