August, 2016 archive
Legacy, Bushie Style 0
Richard Wolff explains why our problems today are the legacy of the President Republicans Won’t Talk About. A teaser:
Follow the link for the rest.
“Trump’s Razor” 0
Josh Marshall wonders why Donald Trump has decided to visit Mexico. After citing the many reasons that, in his opinion, this cannog turn out well for Trump, he decides that there is only one explanation. A snippet:
Addendum:
Marshall has a few thoughts after the event.
If One Standard Is Good, Two Must Be Better 0
Solomon Jones points out that one thing is not like the other thing. A snippet:
Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte is facing criminal charges in Brazil for falsely reporting he was robbed at gunpoint, and, while he lost several endorsements as a result, he ultimately was rewarded with a stint on ABC’s “Dancing With the Stars.”
Both men are accomplished athletes. Kaepernick appeared in Super Bowl XLVII. Lochte is a 12-time Olympic medalist.
But Lochte is white, Kaepernick is black, and when black men stand up against American oppression, the fears of the white establishment arise. Fears that a single man seated on a bench is the forerunner to violent rebellion; that an athlete with the gall to think for himself is a danger to the order of things.
Image via Job’s Anger.
Droning On 0
Only a matter of time . . . .
(snip)
In the second incident, which took place a fortnight after the first, an Airbus A320’s first officer saw “a white, twin rotor drone pass by the right wingtip” barely 100m away as the aircraft was descending through 7,000ft over New Malden, south London.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Show a deft hand at politeness:
(Murfreesboro Police Officer Jeff–ed.) Carroll reports finding a spent shell casing in the living room of the home. A hole in the kitchen wall led to the adjacent unit. Inside that unit, there was a hold (sic) in the wall that led to the living room couch.
“The Party’s Over . . . .” 0
Josh Marshall suggests that the Republican Party is no long a “party” in any recognizable sense. Rather, he argues, it has become subservient to Fox News and its on-line kin (Breitbart, RedState, etc.) and their bubble-dwelling audience.
Follow the link; read the whole thing.
Stray Thought 0
It’s not a “resealable package” if you can’t figure out how to open it without using scissors in the first place.
Furrfu.
Snakes on a Plain 0
Do you want your snake back? Call this number . . . .
Humans are the stupidest people.
