July, 2019 archive
The Art of the Deal 0
Shorter Noz: You can’t have it both ways.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Be polite to your neighbors.
Police say Neal turned around and headed down to the stairwell landing. Investigators say that Clement fired eleven shots at Neal. He was unarmed.
Base Desires, Cruel Delight Dept., Reprise 0
Charles Blow recognizes a common undercurrent in the Trumpling. A snippet:
Stop thinking that this is only about partisanship or polarization. It’s the cruelty, Stupid. It has always been about cruelty: racial cruelty, gender cruelty, religious cruelty. It has always been about bending the rest of America, the rest of reality, really, into subordination to the white supremacist patriarchy.
Do please read the rest. He makes a persuasive case.
Russian Impulses 0
Shaun Mullen has the latest.
Tanking 0
Chris Huston shares his thoughts about the Trumpling of Independence Day at the Idaho State Journal. A snippet (emphasis added):
Call me cynical, but I was underwhelmed. Before Thursday did any of you have any doubt about whether our military is the world’s biggest and best? After all, we spend more on our military than the next seven nations in the world combined.
But Thursday’s optics were magnificent. It reminded me of the Cold War days, when legions of troops and missiles rolled in front of the Kremlin, while autocrats stood above it all and waved to the grim-faced People’s Army below.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Another instance of courtesy whilst encased in an automotive conveyance . . . .
Authorities said Erica Cole attempted to shoot a second party, but instead struck her husband. Nicholas Cole was shot in in the head and is reportedly in stable condition.
Meta: Phillies RSS Feed 0
I updated the widget for the Philadelphia Phillies RSS feed, over there —-> on the sidebar. The xml for the feed had changed in February and I finally got around to noticing.
The Phils certainly had a rough month in June.
Immunity Impunity
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Ronald E. Riggio explains why the rich, the powerful, and the famous believe that they are above the law. (And if you don’t recognize that many of them do, you just aren’t paying attention.)
Consensus Census Con
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Mike Littwin takes a deep-dive into the Trump Administration’s changing rationales for adding a citizenship question to the census. A snippet:
Oops. Redistricting? Number one? That’s what the question’s opponents say it’s about.
