2023 archive
Vaccine Nation 0
Sam and his crew dissect the latest lie from the anti-VAX idiots.
Defying the Narrative 0
There was a particularly incisive discussion of this on Tuesday’s edition of The Bob Cesca Show.
CNN reports the numbers.
The Chutzpah Confounds 0
The Trump Organization tries to argue that it isn’t.
Lowering the Barr 0
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s Gene Collier looks are recent revelations as to the extent of former Attorney-General Bill Barr’s efforts to cover up for curate Donald Trump’s image and suggests that Barr may have set a new standard for U. S. Attorneys-General:
Follow the link for his reasoning.
The Misdirection Playbook 0
In the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Kevin McDermott reveals the playbook (emphasis added):
It’s (the misdirection play–ed.) also a central component of conservative politics today.
If you’re under the impression that the biggest issues facing America are things like transgender participation in sports, school curriculum and the M&Ms cartoon spokespeople — and not the fact that the Republican Party is methodically working to relieve the rich of any responsibility whatsoever for funding the government, while putting the bill on the rest of us — you’re being played.
Follow the link for his reasoning.
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The Crypto Con 0
Hal Crowther tries to make sense of the crypto-con. He focuses on Sam Bankman-Fried, whose FTX crypto exchanged failed suddenly and spectacularly, but his serves to cast light on the entire–you can’t call it an industry, can you?–endeavor.
His article is well worth a read. Here’s the opening (emphasis added):
QOTD 0
Tony Shalhoub, in the voice of Antonio Scarpacci:
Gaze fondly upon today, for tomorrow is bound to suck worse.
The Crypto Con 0
Where were Crockett and Tubbs when Miami needed them?
Metastatic Malignancy 0
Robert Reich has qualms about Facebook’s Meta’s and Twitter’s decisions to allow Trump back on their platforms. A snippet; follow the link for the rest of his thoughts on this matter.
With due respect to Nick Clegg, this is rubbish. Trump is far worse than an ugly politician. He’s a dangerous traitor to American democracy.
