“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Honest to Betsy, you can’t make this stuff up.
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.
Republican Thought Police 0
The Trump maladministration seems to believe that, if we don’t talk about America’s originial sin of chattel slavery, then, by jimiminy, it really couldn’t have been all that bad.
Afterthought:
It’s all about whitewashing–you will pardon the expression–the racism.
They claim that they don’t wan’t to discuss things that make America look bad.
What they mean is that they don’t want to discuss things that make white American racists look bad.
The Crypto Con 0
But is it truly a con? At Above the Law, tax attorney Steven Chung applies the eye of a lawyer to Donald Trump’s crypto capers.
The Me Veneration . . . 0
. . . has a poster child.
A Tune for the Times 0
From the Youtube page:
Larry Lazuli knows that nothing says “trust me” quite like a Republican press release. If the Republicans say that the missing Mitch McConnell is doing great and possibly not only recovering, but preparing for an Iron Man competition, who are we to question that? Larry naturally took the whole kerfuffle and turned it into a swingin’ tune. He hopes you dig it like a gravedigger.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Speaking of rhymes, Michael in Norfolk hears a rhyme from across the big pond.
Details at the link.
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*Mark Twain.
The Blame Gamers 0
Ring of Fire’s Josh Gay sees a method in the maliciousness. Indeed, he posits a pattern in the perfidious proclamations poisoning the polity and debasing the discourse.
The Patriot Gamers 0
Methinks Ron Mitchell makes a valid point.
American Stasi 0
Grung_e_Gene, who happens to work in law enforcement, ain’t buying the Trump maladministration’s attempt to justify lynchings extra-judicial killings by ICE. Here’s a bit from his post:
Hoist on His Own Petard, Rule of Lawless Dept. 0
Above the Law reports on a federal judge’s ruling that Donald Trump can’t have his cake and eat it too. A snippet:
Follow the link for context.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
Farron reports on a federal judge who called out the Trump maladministration’s overt racism.
“”An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Another “responsible gun owner.”
Another unsecured gun.
Another child.
Another demonstration that “responsible gun owner” is an oxymoron.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
Threatening to accelerate the concentration of wealth in this new gilded age? Security maven Bruce Schneier argues that (emphasis added), (a)s for AI itself, the concentration of power and wealth in these tech companies is the greatest existential risk facing society today.
Follow the link to see why.