July, 2018 archive
“Purposeful Confusion” 0
As I heard someone say this week, someone needs to tell her where the term “Quisling” came from.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Rear your children to behave in a polite manner.
Thus doth the NRA’s campaign for courtesy etch another bullet point in its presentation.
Russian Impulses, One More Time 0
Shorter S. E. Cupp: Well, he went and did it.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Badtux cuts through the sophistry about “birthright citizenship.” An excerpt:
Opposition to birthright citizenship by Republicans is often claimed to be about immigration.
It isn’t. This is good ole’ fashioned neo-Confederate pining for the return of slavery.
Follow the link to see why he says that.
Geeking Out 0
RealPlayer playing on Windows Seven running in VirtualBox in seamless mode on Slackware 14.2 under the Fluxbox window manager. Note that you can see both the Windows menu from the virtual machine and the Fluxbox menu from the host machine. By the way, it’s a legit paid for and registered copy of Windows Seven.
That Sinking Feeling 0
Thom and his guest discuss the accelerating effects of climate change.
Russian Impulses 0
I recommend Bob Cesca’s interview with Malcolm Nance highly. Nance has predicted the Trumpling almost step-by-step and offers a sophisticated and detailed analysis of how the Russians compromised Trump.
It is not a fun listen, but it is an important one. Pop in your podplayer and listen to it as you run your errands.
It may even help answer the question raised in this post from Shaun Mullen.
Fatal Attraction 0
The writer of a letter to the editor of the Portland Press-Herald struggles to understand white working class voters’* fealty to Donald Trump. A nugget; follow the link for the rest:
But why have the middle class and poor supported this? Is it because their fear of “the others” has blinded them to this picking of their pockets?
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*Hint: The key word in the preceding phrase is “white.”
