2017 archive
If One Standard Is Good, Two Must Be Better 0
Leonard Pitts, Jr., notes the disparate treatment. A snippet:
The black guy fails to wear a lapel pin and endures months of questions about whether he belongs. The white guy canoodles with Russia, insults the intelligence community, undermines the judiciary and makes a Gold Star widow cry, dismissing her husband’s sacrifice as, apparently, just one of those things.
Do please follow the link.
No There There 0
Via Job’s Anger.
Afterthought:
Donald Trump has succeeded in one thing: He has exposed the dirty underbelly of the Benighted States of America.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
An outbreak of politeness in Prince William County.
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
Hate-full mail. Follow the link for the complete article.
She noticed a piece of mail with “Proud American” scrawled above her address. Her family has an American flag hanging outside, she said, so Dunphy, home alone and curious, ripped open the envelope.
“As soon as I opened the envelope, my jaw hit the ground,” said Terri Kiral-Kuenzer, 56, of Pennsburg, who also received a flier. “Who could have done this?”
Inside the hand-addressed envelopes were fliers that contained racist, white supremacist, and anti-Semitic messages, drawings, and quotes from Adolf Hitler.
Junta Hijinks 0
Dick Polman explains. A snippet:
More at the link.
Facebook Frolics 1
Josh Marshall reports on monopolistic frolics:
More at the link.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Party politely.
“A nine-millimeter handgun was being handled and the gun went off and the one round that was fired did strike a 3-year-old in the arm,” said Sgt. Jason Nielsen, Sandy Police Department. “The 28-year-old father was struck in the leg with the same bullet.”
Falsified Flags 0
QOTD 0
Ted Danson as Dr. John Becker:
Television has become the petri dish in which the country developes its idiots.
The Climates They Are a-Changing 0
It’s the last full week of October and I’m running the freaking air conditioner, for Pete’s sake.
When I was a young ‘un, back in the olden days, the trees would have already have lost their leaves and I’d be wearing winter coats by now.
We are doomed.
“Think of the Bakeries” 0
Redacted Tonight discusses how the religious right is attempting to leverage the recent hurricanes so it can suckle at the public teat.
Warning: Language.
Fly the Fiendly Skies 0
Elie Mystal takes a stroller through the dysfunction that is contemporary American air travel.