July, 2017 archive
Cover Boy 0
There’s now a Time Magazine Donald Trump cover that’s not fake.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Politeness builds strong families.
Think about this.
He’s “putting his rifle away” with a chambered shell and with the safety off (if indeed it has a safety)–oh, never mind. Those portable penises do seem to have minds of their own.
How Much Is Too Much? 0
That’s what Dick Polman wants to know. A snippet:
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. . . they’re still fine with Russia penetrating our sovereignty, and with Russia’s chumps running the White House into the ground, as long as they can cling to their wet dream of getting Trump’s signature on a bill that slashes taxes for the wealthy and zaps health coverage for 20 million people.
QOTD 0
Rex Stout:
. . . circumstances alter understandings.
Stout, Rex, “Frame-Up for Murder” in Death Times Three (New York, Bantam, 1984), p. 139
And Now, a Musical Interlude 0
As my two or three regular readers have likely figured out by now, I like swing (I also like rock, jazz, classical, ragtime–good music is good music–but there’s something about swing . . . .). The more I hear the Andrews Sisters, the more I realize that they were indeed something special.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
A party guest must conduct himself with politeness.
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The alleged victims told police Ursic became angry when a band was making fun of him and left in his pickup truck about 2 a.m. May 20. Two women at the party went to investigate after hearing what sounded like a vehicle accident shortly after Ursic left, according to court documents.
They found debris and Ursic sitting in his truck along a road that went into the woods. They told police Ursic pointed a shotgun at them and said, “You’re dead to me.” They later saw Ursic driving past the party several times, the record indicates.
Aside:
No, I hadn’t heard of “Pike Days” either.
Life Imitates Art 0
Meet the Republican Party.
“Collusion Galore,” Reprise 0
PoliticalProf explains why Trumpettes don’t care about the Trump clan’s collusion with a foreign power.
Dick Polman covers the latest (at least as of the time he penned–er, clicked–his piece); his post includes this tidbit:
