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A Tune for the Times 0

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Republican Newspeak 0

At the Las Vegas Sun, Ron Mitchell decodes de code.

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

Jim Crow looks at the rising and says,

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Vaccine Nation, Reprise 0

David dissects the disinformation disseminated by disgusting deceivers who dismiss documented data.

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Vaccine Nation 0

At the Psychology Today website, Robert N. McCauley points out that

In light of:

  • the tens, if not hundreds, of millions of lives that vaccination has saved over the past hundred years from the prevention of crowd diseases (such as smallpox, polio, and measles),
  • the current resurgence of measles and death therefrom in America in the face of the newest wave of vaccine hesitancy, and
  • recent findings that some vaccines (e.g., for shingles) aid human health in additional ways (such as decreasing the probability of dementia),

why is resistance to vaccination so longstanding and widespread?

Read the article for his thoughts on that question.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Therefore, an armed family must needs be a polite family.

Q. E. D.

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The Snaring Economy 0

Apparently, price-gouging is the hip new thing.

There’s are reasons for regulations, and this is one of them.

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QOTD 0

H. G. Wells:

It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their own.

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And Now for a Musical Interlude 0

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DOGE Bull 0

C&L follows the money.

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Establishmentarians 0

Couple stands outside

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The Lynch Mob 0

At The Philadelphia Inquirer, Will Bunch offers a theory as to why Congressional Republicans want to persecute Dr. Anthony Fauci for doing his job (and doing it quite well, I might add).

Methinks he’s onto something.

No excerpt or summary will do his piece justice. Just go read it.

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Fruit of the Loon 0

At Above the Law, Joe Patrice makes a strong case that one of the co-founders of the Federalist Society is bananas about bananas.

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Ad Hoke 0

At the Psychology Today website, Marianne Brandon expresses–er–skepticism over advertisements from Big Tech claiming that they “believe in you,” i. e., people, users, the targets of the ads. A snippet, in which she decodes de code:

The ads want you to hear “we believe in people” as a statement about your resilience and your capacity for connection. What it actually means, if you look at what these companies have built over two decades, is closer to this: We believe you are predictable. We believe you are exploitable. We believe that when we build something compelling enough, you will choose it over the healthier, harder thing, almost every time. And we like those odds, because we’ve tested them for years and they’ve made us some of the most profitable companies ever to exist on Earth.

Follow the link for the rest.

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What’s in a Name 0

Sometimes, quite a lot.

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QOTD 0

Alexander Hamilton:

Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.

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A Tune for this New Gilded Age 0

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Republican Family Values, Reprise 0

Democratic Donkey holding an apple standing next to a little girl eating an apple says,

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Republican Family Values 0

Honest to Betsy, you can’t make this stuff up.

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Red Scare Redux 0

Thom argues that Trump’s attempt to create a new “red scare” is yet another Trump con. Rather, he suggests that

Americans aren’t embracing socialism—they’re rejecting 45 years of Reaganomics, billionaire rule, and an economy rigged against the middle class.

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