The Medicine Show 0
Rebecca Watson finds herself–er–somewhat taken aback by the Trump maladministration’s willingness to put the public’s health in the hands of quacks.
Or you can read the transcript.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another “responsible gun owner” feels free to flaunt his portable phallus at a fellow driver.
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.
Courting Disaster 0
The saying is that any prosecutor can get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich.
Except it seems for Trump’s prosecutors. Via Above the Law, TechDirt takes a deep dive into why the Trump maladministration’s DOJ keeps losing in court. A snippet:
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Via the Charlotte Observer, Bloomberg’s Andreas Kluth reminds us to watch what they do, not what they say. Here’s a tiny bit from the article:
Aside:
I would have put the word, “Christian,” in quotes. The only part of Christ’s words that these “white Christian nationalists” seem to have read is “Do unto others.”
American Stasi, Reprise 0
Speaking of the surveillance state . . . .
American Stasi and the Rule of Lawless 0
And it’s the right-wingers who keep harping on the “surveillance state,” except, natch, when they’re doing the surveilling.
(snip)
The ruling found that DHS did not follow the federal law requiring the agency requesting taypayer address from the IRS to have specifically identified the individual in question. The requesting agency must provide the IRS with the name and address of the person whose information it seeks to obtain. IRS failed to verify that this information had been provided in the majority of the 47,300 DHS requests.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet again a “responsible gun owner” exposes a portable phallus to a child.
Words fail me.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
In a letter to the editor of the Las Vegas Sun, Jim Paladino hears a rhyme from the Watergate time.
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*Mark Twain.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
Cocksure of itself? At the Psychology Today website, Alain Samson warns us that “(b)oth LLMs themselves and users tend to overestimate the correctness of LLMs’ answers.”
Presidential Impunity 0
Via the Sacramento Bee, Nathan L. Gonzales wonders how the heck Donald Trump keeps getting away with his lies.
Here’s his wonder:
Follow the link for context.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another “responsible gun owner” decides to play with his portable phallus, yet another child is dead.
We are a society of stupid which has eschewed any measures to avoid sacrificing its members to enrich the merchants of death.
Should Old Acquaintance Be Forgot? 0
Per Robert J. Shapiro, writing at the Washington Monthly about Donald Trump’s arbitrary and capricious trade tariff you-can-hardly-call-them polices and about the possible ramifications thereof, Trump’s answer to that question is a resounding, “Yes.”