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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

The hunt for politeness continues.

“The preliminary investigation revealed that the victim was walking through the field with a man and two children while Moorhead was hunting deer from a ground blind. Moorhead believed he saw a deer and fired his rifle, striking the victim,” the Delaware State Police said in a statement.

One must needs wonder, was it her antlers or her fluffy little white tail that led him to think she was a deer?

Inquiring minds want to know.

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Retaliation Nation 0

Student in a Civics class reads from a report,

Click for the original image.

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Russian Impulses 0

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American Stasi 0

ABC News runs the numbers.

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Emoluments 0

Field has some numbers.

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QOTD 0

Bruce Willis:

You can’t undo the past but you can certainly not repeat it.

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A Tune for the Times 0

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

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

America’s original sin of chattel slavery and the myth of racial superiority created to justify it continue to pollute our polity.

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Bros Will Be Bros 0

SFGATE’s Silas Valentino speaks with The Nerd Reich author Gil Durán about the Bay Area-born, tech authoritarian movement.

Just read it.

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Emoluments 0

Donald Trump as King Louis XIV of France surrounded by his family and Elong Musk all holding bags of money.  Trump says,

Via Job’s Anger.

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They Got It in Writing 0

David comments on the buried lede in an editorial comment.

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This New Gilded Age 0

Via The Sacramento Bee, Daniel de Visé runs the numbers. A snippet; follow the link for context.

The American Dream will cost you $5.3 million over a lifetime.

(snip)

That $5.3 million tab is more than the average American can afford. The typical full-time worker with a bachelor’s degree can expect to earn $3.6 million from ages 25 to 64, Investopedia says. Twenty years of Social Security benefits raise that worker’s lifetime income to $4.1 million, still $1.2 million less than the cost of the American Dream.

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Tesla’s “Self-Driving” Mode . . . 0

. . . is not a safe-driving mode.

On Tuesday, just before midnight, dashcam footage captured a car driving straight into a California Highway Patrol vehicle in Fairfield on Interstate 80 near the Air Base Parkway, Bay City News Service reported. Officers allege that the driver, a 22-year-old man from Sacramento, told them that he fell asleep behind the wheel while using the vehicle’s autonomous driving setting.

And he ain’t the only one.

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QOTD 0

John Danforth:

The problem is not that Christians are conservative or liberal, but that some are so confident that their position is God’s position that they become dismissive and intolerant toward others and divisive forces in our national life.

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Recommended Viewing 0

The Looney Tunes Show.

If you grew up watching Warner Brothers cartoons, as I did, you should check this out. It’s a reimagining of the classic Looney Tunes characters in a sitcom setting, where Yosemite San and Witch Hazel are neighbors of Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck in a suburban cul-de-sac and other characters, such as Marvin the Martian, Chip and Dale, and Speedy Gonzales, appear in supporting roles.

Great art it ain’t, but it’s a lot of fun.

I’m watching it on Tubi.

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A Tune for the Times 0

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Republican Family Values 0

Apparently, sacrificing animals on the altar of mammon is now a Republican family value.

Oil and gas companies will now be permitted to kill polar bears and Pacific walruses off the northern coast of Alaska so long as such killings are “unintentional,” according to a new Trump administration rule.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Another oxymoronic “responsible gun owner” shoots himself while fondling his portable phallus.

Musical NotesGuns and stupid, guns and stupid,
They go together like love and Cupid.
Let me tell you, brother,
You won’t find one without the other.

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Russian Impulses 0

Museum employee switching portrait of Benedict Arnold out for a portrait of Donald Trump in Russian garb at ah display labeled

Via Job’s Anger.

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American Stasi 0

Via Above the Law, Techdirt says to ICE, “Smile. You’re on candid camera.”

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