2016 archive
BYOB 0
Michigan man is caught running in empties.
This reminds me of the story about the customs official who watched a man push a wheelbarrow loaded with junk across the border every day. He became convinced that the man was smuggling something, but, despite the most intense searches, he never found any contraband.
Many years later, the two men, both long retired, ran into each other in a bar in a border town. After a couple of drinks, the ex-border guard said, “Look. I know you were smuggling something. I need to know, what was it? I’m retired–I promise I it’s just between us. Please tell me.”
What He Meant To Say 0
Carl Hiaasen claims to have the first draft of Trump’s acceptance speech.
Devolution of a Party 0
Aside:
Of course, Reagan was no Reagan either. He just played one on TV.
Toga! Toga! Toga! 0
Daniel Ruth looks back on the Republican Convention. A snippet:
Or consider the Animal House toga party was a pillar of Swiss watch-like precision compared to the political mud wrestling that took place along the scenic shores of Lake Erie over the past few days.
Read the rest and reminisce.
Reince Cycle 0
No self-awareness. No self-awareness whatsoever.
The Color of Justice, Reprise 0
In the Guardian. Ieshia Evans, who gained fame for fearlessly standing as she was arrested by a crew of robocops on a Baton Rouge street, tells her story. Here’s a bit:
“I just need to make sure that you’re not a prostitute,” he said, projecting his voice so that all the customers in the store could hear. Their jaws dropped. I was so embarrassed. We went home without the juice.
Would this have happened if I were a white woman? I don’t think so. I wasn’t dressed in a provocative way.
Do please read the rest.
Coddled Yeggs 0
Catherine Rampell notes that, despite their small-government protestations, what Republicans truly want is a nanny state, one that mops their tears, protects them from the real world, and coos over their booboos, all the while keeping them swaddled in their bigotry and prejudice. A snippet:
(snip)
They . . . want policymakers to bar transgender Americans from using the public bathroom of their choice, lest those in neighboring bathroom stalls feel vaguely threatened.
They want government to protect religious freedom, yet they also want government to expel holders of select religious beliefs — a policy that couldn’t possibly pass constitutional muster even if you could figure out a way to implement it.
They also want their small, spartan government to round up and deport 11 million undocumented immigrants, quickly and on the cheap, but “in a very humane way, a very nice way.”
Follow the link for more on the liturgy of white-wing whining.
Lies, Damned Lies, and Trumpery 0
Joseph DiStephano dissects Trumps lies about taxes in the U. S.
Aside:
It won’t do any good. Trump is merely repeating a lie that has been Republican orthodoxy for over a generation.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Give your grandchildren an opportunity to be polite.
The boy was at his grandparent’s house in the River North subdivision, near the Bibb County line in west Jones County, on Wednesday afternoon when he picked up the unsecured gun, Jones County sheriff’s investigator Kenny Gleaton said. Two adults were home, but the child was in a room by himself.