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2022 archive

Facebook Frolics 0

Funereal frolics.

The stupid.

It burns.

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Vaccine Nation 0

Suffer the children.

Jesus, Mary, and Joseph.

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The Crypto Con 0

Emma and the crew talk with a caller about the con. (The relevant portion of the clip starts about !:15 mark after a short discussion about China and Taiwan. Short commercial at the end.)

Excerpt:

The companies have huge market caps based on nothing.

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Crime and Punishment 0

What Atrios said.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Yet more random acts of politeness.

We are a failing state.

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QOTD 0

Barry Sanders:

One of the flabby lines you hear sometimes is, ‘Speak truth to power’. Power knows the truth. It’s speaking the truth to yourself that’s the challenge.

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A Tune for the Times 0

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Misdirection Play 0

Methinks Solomon Jones is onto something.

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The Real Groomers 2

In looking at the results of Arizona’s elections, the Arizona Republic’s Laurie Roberts identifies the real groowmers. A snippet:

. . . Republicans have spent the last two years grooming their supporters not to trust anything that election workers say or do.

I have had neighbors who worked the polls on election day.

It’s a grueling long day that starts before dawn and doesn’t end until the votes are counted.

They did it because they cared about the country and they cared about democracy, and they tried to do it right. If they are paid at all, the pay is de minimis.

They certainly don’t deserve to be reviled and abused by a bunch of whiny sore losers whose ultimate motivations, when you dig through the layers of gibberish and obfuscation, are racism and bigotry and hatred.

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They Can’t Fill Those Shoes 0

Man labeled

See the original image at the Charlotte Observer.

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America’s Establishmentarians 0

Thom cites the Founders, who, though not perfect by any measure, were not stupid.

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Muskrat Love 0

The Los Angeles Times’s Matt Pearce takes a long and thoughtful look at chaos agent Elon Musk’s stewardship (or perhaps that sever-ship) of Twitter. A snippet:

Demonstrating anything less than servility to the world’s wealthiest man seems to make Musk lash out, which is probably one of the reasons he hates journalists and left-wing politicians so much. Maybe you can get away with that more easily as the owner of a rocket company or a car company. But that’s a real risk for an owner of a social media platform, especially the service whose users are infamous for cyberbullying the thinnest-skinned targets they can find.

In a related vein, the EFF offers some guidance to those who might be interested in an alternative to Twitter.

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The One-Trick Phony 0

Frame One:  Woman says,

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QOTD 0

Barry Diller:

The entertainment business hasn’t had a new idea in years.

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Mean for the Sake of Mean 0

You couldn’t make this stuff up.

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Dis Coarse Discourse 0

PoliticalProf.

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Birds of a Feather 0

Woman watching television while reading newspaper with headline,

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It’s All Relative 0

frame One, titled

Via Job’s Anger.

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Family Planning 0

Emma and her colleagues discuss how theocrats view sex from an exclusively male perspective and denigrate women in doing so.

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Freedom of Screech 0

At Above the Law, Liz Dye digs into a Federal Judge’s ruling that FLorida’s “Anti-Woke” law violates the U. S. Constitution. She quotes a bit from the decision (emphasis added):

To confront certain viewpoints that offend the powers that be, the State of Florida passed the so-called “Stop W.O.K.E.” Act2 in 2022—redubbed (in line with the State’s doublespeak) the “Individual Freedom Act.” The law officially bans professors from expressing disfavored viewpoints in university classrooms while permitting unfettered expression of the opposite viewpoints. Defendants argue that, under this Act, professors enjoy “academic freedom” so long as they express only those viewpoints of which the State approves. This is positively dystopian.

Follow the link for the rest.

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