November, 2017 archive
Family Matters 0
Thom discusses the analogy of government as father and how it can help our understanding of conservative and liberal worldviews.
Promises, Promises 0
Jay Bookman thinks that Republicans have got it backwards. A snippet:
I think it’s even more basic than that: Their current political problems are caused by the fact that their promises suck . . . .
Follow the link for his reasoning.
“Gimme That Roy Moore Religion” 0
Tony Norman tries to figure out Judge Roy Moore’s* religious creed.
Read it; I tried to pick a snippet, but it defied snippage.
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*It seems “Judge” is his adopted first name.
QOTD 0
Rex Stout:
War doesn’t mature men; it merely pickles them in the brine of disgust and dread.
Stout, Rex, Over My Dead Body (New York: Bantam, 1993), p. 119.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
The hunt for politeness goes on.
Whatever happened to “unload your weapon white transporting it”?
The Voter Fraud Fraud 0
Thom and Greg Palaste discuss the Republican operatives who are attempting to discredit Roy Moore’s victims and their histories of gutting out the vote.
The Court Is in Sessions 0
Dick Polman looks down the Sessions memory hole.
A Cavalcade of Trumpery 0
Will Bunch steps back and looks at the big picture.
Who Ya Gonna Call? 0
Honest to Betsy, you can’t make this stuff up!
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Be polite at the dining table.
Smith, a retired S.C. Probation and Parole officer, had a gun stored in her purse without a holster, and when she moved the purse, the gun went off, injuring herself and Jacqueline Duchene, 48, of Goose Creek. Duchene was shot in the leg.