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The Rule of Lawless 0

Mona Charen is less than sanguine at the prospect of Todd Blanche holding the post of Attorney-General. A snippet:

This is the Trumpian way. They don’t just break the rules behind closed doors; they shatter the rules in broad daylight. It’s not enough, for example, that the Trump Justice Department is denying resources to the team that investigates and prosecutes foreign corrupt practices; Trump issued an executive order pausing all such prosecutions. So it’s not news that Trump’s new attorney general will fail to seek impartial justice, but the refusal to even feign regard for impartial justice is new.

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“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0

Thom hears some rhymes.

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*Mark Twain.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

As if we needed a reminder . . . .

Police say Tyler Swan, 27, of Georgia, and Michael Richard, 39, of Essex Junction, were target shooting near the home of Geraldine Doran, 84. Investigators say a round from the target shooting went into Doran’s Ceres Circle home, and she was seriously injured.

. . . “responsible gun owner” is an oxymoron.

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Devolution 0

Sportswriter extraordinaire Bob Molinaro in my local rag:

We may have reached the depths of gambling degeneracy when unregulated offshore bookmakers are taking bets on the Little League World Series.

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If One Standard Is Good, Two Must Be Better 0

Donald Trump, sitting a a desk writing, says,

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Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0

Mind-numbing? At the Psychology Today website, Patrick L. Plaisance argues that “. . . the design and use of AI assistants are arguably destroying our digital opportunities to cultivate curiosity.”

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QOTD 0

Alexander Hamilton:

Power over a man’s subsistence is power over his will.

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And Now for a Musical Interlude 0

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How Stuff Works, Trickle-On Economics 0

Cartoon lampooning

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The Macho Man, Republican Family Values Dept. 0

Thom sees a pattern.

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Stray Question 0

Why do so many persons who loudly proclaim their love of the God of Love also loudly broadcast their hatred of persons who don’t look like them or think like them?

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Republican Thought Police 0

Exercise your Constitutional right of freedom of speech and you just might find yourself on ice ICE on you.

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Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0

A willing co-conspirator? At Above the Law, Joe Patrice tells of a lawyer who asked ChatGPt to tilt the scales of justice in his client’s favor.

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QOTD 0

Plutarch:

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

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A Tune for the Times 0

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Red Scare Redux 0

Donald Trump, sitting on Kim Jong-Un's lap, says,

Via Job’s Anger.

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Big Tech and Our Surveillance Society 0

There’s a reason some persons call them “pervert glasses.”

Just because you can do it with computers, doesn’t mean you should.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Yet another oxymoronic “responsible gun owner” exposes his portable phallus to a child.

Family members tell Action News 5 that five-year-old Tamir Washington got hold of a gun and unintentionally shot himself in the head.

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The Me Veneration 0

As far as U an concerned, this is a bridge too far.

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QOTD 0

John Naisbitt:

Learning how to learn is the most precious thing we have in life.

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