2024 archive
Republican Thought Police 0
Farron points out that, if it looks like a book ban, walks like book ban, and talks like a book ban, well, it’s a book ban.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet “responsible gun owner” feels compelled to expose his portable phallus in public.
Too much iron. Too many idiots.
Stray Thought 0
When persons loudly and repeatedly crow about how patriotic they are, they probably aren’t.
QOTD 0
Alison Golden and Grace Dagnall, in the thoughts of Inspector Graham as he takes notes using (gasp!) a notepad:
It was easy to appear a dinosaur these days if you hadn’t turned over the running of your life . . . to a couple of gadgets.
Golden, Alison and Dagnall, Grace, The Case of the Screaming Beauty in
The Inspector Graham Mysteries 1-4 (San Carlos: Mesa Verde, 2915) p.46.
The Council of Bent 0
Methinks a strong case can be made that, when Donald Trump considers someone for a cabinet post, the primary, if not the only, question he asks is, “Will this person faithfully and obediently lick my boots?“
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
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.
Pay Attention to the Man behind the Curtain 0
David R Clawson, writing at Psychology Today Blogs, argues that The Wonderful Wizard of Oz can be seen as an allegory for the time in which it was written, that is, the heart of the Gilded Age, and also as an allegory for this, the New Gilded Age. Methinks he makes a good point, as witness this excerpt (only substitute the phrase, “successful businessman” for “wizard”):
I commend his piece to your attention.
The Bully’s Pulpit 0
Steve M. detects a pattern.
Follow the link for his reasoning.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
The serial: Dick Tracy’s G-Men, episode three, which I saw on Tubi.
The dialog: I left orders with the Coast Guard.
The closed caption: I left daughters with the Coast Guard.
The intelligence: Artificial.
The stupid: It burns.
The afterthought: I have daughters. As one who used to be a boater, I have a lot of respect for the Coast Guard, but I’m not sure I’d leave my daugh–oh, never mind.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Practice politeness while paying for your purchases.
The stupid. It wounds.
All the News that Fits 0
Cliff Schecter talks with Brian Karam about why today’s news media focuses on all the news that fits.
Dis Coarse Discourse 0
It just keeps getting coarser.
Immunity Impunity
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At the Idaho State Journal, Michael Corrigan marvels at the teflon Don.
