December, 2017 archive
The End of Retirement, Pensioners in Penury Dept. 0
(Farron gets a bit heated in this report.)
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Highly-trained politeness.
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The incident happened at a house as the specialist was processing a firearm as evidence, Rasheta said.
The Art of the Con(sequences) 0
Chuck Jones, head of the United Steel Workers Local 1999 at the Carrier plant where Trump famously (fatuously?) promised to stem the outsourcing of American jobs, realizes that he and many of his fellows were among the jobbed. A snippet:
“I don’t think he’s really going to come through, even though I hoped he would,” one laid-off worker told me.
“He pulled a bait-and-switch on us,” another said.
The irony is that anyone who knew anything–I don’t mean research, I mean a casual acquaintance with healines–about Trump’s record in business saw through the con from the beginning.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
The hunt for politeness continues and another gun that fired itself.
No There There 0
Leonard Pitts, Jr., confronts the emptiness at the top. A snippet:
No, Trump’s problem is that he has nothing to say. And the more he says, the more obvious that becomes.
He is the proverbial empty vessel making the most noise.
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
Balloon Juice reports on how racists have seized on the license granted by Donald Trump and his dupes, symps, fellow travelers, and, natch, the Republican Confederate Party.
We are now a pariah nation.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Just another day in NRA Paradise, where responsible gun owners act responsibly.
They say the horses’ owners returned home at about 4:00 p.m. on the 21st to find one of the horses lying on the ground, dead from a gunshot wound in its heart and lung areas. Another horse was standing next to the body and was found to have a wound in its shoulder. That horse is still recovering.
A third horse was found wounded in a separate area. That horse died the next day from its wound.
Sexual Devolution 0
There is no rational way to claim that trapping women in one’s office and waving one’s genitals about is legitimate business (or any other) behavior, not in any context.
Not all men are pigs, but far too many are.