July, 2020 archive
Tales from the Front 0
A caller tells Thom of her experiences at the demonstrations in Portland, Oregon. (It should come as no surprise that her story differs from the picture painted by Attorney-General Lowering the Barr.)
The Reopening 0
Some Georgia cities are running out of hospital beds in these viral times.
Not that anyone could have predicted . . . .
Car. Thief. 0
Why does this not surprise me?
Shoot the Messenger 0
Experiments fail, even noble ones.
Lowering the Barr, Russian Impulses Dept. 0
Nancy LeTourneau investigates Donald Trump and Bill Barr’s tactic of selective deception. A snippet:
Still Rising Again after All Those Years 0
Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton don’t cotton to no truth tellin’ about dem ole cotton fields back home.
Presidented 0
Werner Herzog’s Bear marvels at the irony that the Reagan Foundation has requested that Donald Trump no longer use Ronald Reagan’s name in fundraising. He notes that, even though Reagan knew much better than Trump how to conduct himself in public, Reagan’s policies presaged in many ways Donald Trump’s actions. Here’s one example; follow the link for the rest.
Aside:
I say “Trump’s actions,” not Trump’s policies, for, as far as I can tell, Donald Trump does nothing consistently enough to warrant the sobriquet of “policy.”
