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A Tune for the Times 0

The Parody Project looks back at the first two years of Donald Trump’s presidency (and wonders why anyone would want to go through that again).

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Vaccine Nation, Science Schmience Dept. 0

Steven M. is not sanguine, as he hears more Republicans seem to say

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How Stuff Works: Thom Explains the “Recession Racket” 0

Thom explains how the morbidly rich can benefit from recessions. A quote:

Recessions help billionaires. They hurt you and me, but they become buying opportunities for billionaires.

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“Those Who Cannot Remember the
Past Are Condemned To Repeat It.”*
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Kim Shinkoskey, writing at the Idaho State Journal, argues that Americans need to bone up on some history.

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*George Santayana.

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The Plank in the Platform 0

Woman filling out ballot says,

Click for the original image.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Once again, playing with portable phalluses leads to a discharge. (Syntax error atoned for.)

Waukegan Deputy Police Chief Scott Chastain said the two juveniles were handling firearms and pointing the weapons at each other when the 17-year-old accidentally shot the 14-year-old in the stomach at about 8 p.m. in the 1300 clock of Walnut Street.

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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Freedom of Screech 0

Donald Trump’s fee-fees are hurt because he didn’t get his way, so he’s filed (yet another) empty suit. From Above the Law:

And Trump definitely had the time (to file a frivolous lawsuit–ed.) yesterday, filing a complaint against CBS for daring to edit an interview with Kamala Harris on its October 5 news show 60 Minutes. Trump, whose constant stream of invective and verbal diarrhea is routinely “sanewashed” by the press, was incensed that Harris’s more nuanced answer on the war in Gaza was truncated during the original broadcast. On Truth Social, he screamed that CBS’s non-existent broadcast license should be revoked.

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QOTD 0

G. K. Chesterton:

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.

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Geeking Out 0

Debian v. 12 (Bookworm) with the Plasma Desktop on a Think Penguin laptop. Xclock is in the upper right; GKrellM, the lower right. The wallpaper is from my collection.

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The Disinformation Superhighway 0

At Psychology Today Blogs, Elesa Zehndorfer takes a look at a rapidly growing career path: “Disinformation entrepreneurs” who propagate claptrap via “social” media for money. She notes (emphasis added)

Posing as fellow Americans (Democrats, Republicans, or others) the goal of disinformation entrepreneurs (DE) across the world is simple: Search daily trending topics, then ramp up polarization between partisan voters as aggressively as possible by baiting readers with outrageous, offensive posts. The political issue, nation, or ideology is not important; the capacity to make a few bucks is all that counts.

Follow the link for her article, and, remember,

    The things that you’ve seen,
    And can read on your screen,
    They ain’t necessarily so.
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A Choice, Not an Echo 0

Title:  Closing Argument.  Image:  Kamala Harris trying to push close a door labeled

Via Juanita Jean.

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Macho, Macho Man 0

Afterthought:

Donald Trump has a long hsitory of doing things to women whether they like it or not.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Another child . . . .

One more time, “accident” and “negligence” are not synonyms, and law enforcement should stop pretending that they are.

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This New Gilded Age 0

SFgate’s Drew Magary minces few words about our new robber barons.

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Fly the Fiendly Skies 0

They get fiendlier every day.

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QOTD 0

Leonard Goldberg, in the voice of Joanna Blalock:

Greed has no end. It is like a bottomless well that cannot be filled. And at times the wealthiest are the worst offenders.

Goldberg, Leonard, The Daughter of Sherlock Holmes (New York: Minotaur, 2017) p. 262

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And Now for a Musical Interlude 0

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Happy All Hallows Eve 0

Black cats

Via All Things Amazing, an image site (some images NSFW).

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Which Witch? 0

This witch.

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The Disinformation Superhighway 0

Spocko makes the case that some Twitter users X offenders have created an HOV lane for voter fraud fraudsters.

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