Suffer the Children 0
As has been well established by now, that’s not scripture. That’s a Republican family value.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
The hunt for politeness continues:
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.
Actions Have Consequences* 0
David points out that isolation is not the same as independence.
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*That is, of course, a concept foreign to Donald Trump as, throughout his life, his actions have never had consequences that he was unable to wiggle out of.
Republican Thought Police 0
Via the Charlotte Observer, Stephen L. Carter has a message for Donald Trump:
Follow the link for his reasoning.
The Art of the Steal 0
Mediaite takes a look at the White House crypto con.
The Sure Thing 0
Facebook Frolics, Still Rising Again after All These Years Dept. 0
I’m guessing he may be angling for an appointment to the Supreme Supremacist Court:
Afterthought:
There’s nothing social about acting like a racist for clicks.
One more time, “social” media isn’t.
Trumponomics 0
Farron notes that conservative economists are not sanguine, discusses Trump’s efforts to end run around the law so as to revive his tariffs, and then wonders why Trump has a tariff fetish.
See the article that Farrom discusses.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Gene Nichol is fed up with originalist sin. Here’s a bit of his article about the recent Supreme Supremacist Court decision gutting the Voting Rights Act. A snippet:
Go read the full article for context.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Another “responsible gun owner” feels compelled to expose his portable phallus to a child.
We are a society of stupid.
A Tune for the Times 0
From the Youtube page:
You know I’ve been around a long time, but I have never lived through what we are living through now. The great Woody Guthrie wrote this song many years ago. I changed some of the words to fit our times, and I hope you’ll sing it when you are marching. Because sometimes people, sometimes you just gotta SING OUT!
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
A siren’s calling us to simple-mindedness? At the Psychology Today website, John Nosta argues that AI doesn’t replace thinking. It replaces the feeling that thinking is necessary in the first place.