August, 2024 archive
QOTD 0
Henry Fountain Ashurst:
Afterthought:
Methinks these words ipso facto disqualify many current Senators.
Break Time (Updated) 0
Braving the remnants of Hurricane Debby to drink liberally.
Addendum:
Debby went easy on us. We got some wind and sprinkles and I drove through one rain squall on my way to DL, but the worst of it passed west of here, where they got tornado warnings.
The Lake Effect 0
The Arizona Republic’s E. J. Montini thinks that the Lake may running drying up.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
Sam and the crew debunk the racist lies that Republicans, who are citizens of this “nation of immigrants,” are using to demonize immigrants.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Another case of self-politeness . . .
The man in his 50s or 60s was carrying his gun and trash at about 6 a.m. Tuesday, according to a preliminary San Antonio police report. The gun discharged when the man slipped in a wet area.
. . . another casualty of the confluence of guns and stupid.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Now comes James D. Zirin, writing at the Washington Monthly, who hears a rhyme.
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*Mark Twain.
All the News that Fits 0
I submit that this article from Psychology Today Blogs, though it’s not primarily about news or even politics, offers some useful pointers for dealing with the right-wing media manipulators apparatus.
Republican Family Values 0
Farron uses J. D. Vances’s wife’s interview with Fox News as a starting point to delineate the duplicity of the claim that Republicans somehow support families.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another oxymoronic “responsible gun owner” thought the gun was unloaded.
Guns and stupid, guns and stupid.
They go together like love and Cupid.
Let me tell you brother,
You can’t have one without the other.
Name that Tune 0
Why it’s Donald Trump’s One-Note Samba!
And Now for a Musical Interlude 0
Mangy boogies down.
Chicken Little Chicken, Reprise
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Chicken Little Chicken
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Thom discusses how Donald Trump is trying to run away from debating Kamala Harris without looking like he’s running away from debating Kamala Harris.
Aside:
Methinks that Trump demands debate broadcasters promise not to fact-check him seems to me sort of maybe a little bit of an indicator that he intends to say things that might be a tab bit less than factual . . . .