2024 archive
Immunity Impunity
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James D. Zirin takes a close look at the Supreme Supremacist Court’s free pass for Donald Trump.
No summary or excerpt will do it justice. Just go read it.
Hoist on Their Own Petard 0
Sam and the crew delight in Mike Johnson’s fleeing the stage and at Senator Ron Johnson’s giving the wrong speech when their teleprompters misbehaved, this after years of Republicans ridiculing Democrats for using–wait for it–teleprompters.
News You Can Lose 0
There’s an old saying that “no news is good news.”
At Psychology Today Blogs, Arthur Dobrin argues that too much news is bad news. A snippit:
Follow the link for his suggestions as to how to keep up to date without being driven up a wall.
QOTD 0
Stacy Keach, in the voice of Mike Hammer:
Forget Vegas and Atlantic City. Wall Street is the ultimate casino.
The Privatization Scam 0
Arizona’s state budget is in big trouble because of the privatization scam. That’s something you can voucher on.
Here’s a bit of the report from ProPublica:
But as it turns out, the parents most likely to apply for these vouchers are the ones who were already sending their kids to private school or homeschooling. They use the dollars to subsidize what they were already paying for.
Much more at the link.
“There Is No Auto-Pilot Setting for Democracy” 0
Seth points out that previous generations have had to fight to protect democracy and that, now, it’s our turn. He notes that what we don’t need are the “opportunistic purveyors of paranois, suspicion, and fear, who have already rushed to fill the void with incendiary conspiracy theories and lies.”
Aside:
I got three texts purporting to be from J. D. Vance yestoday. (Why he would text me, I have no idea, but, each time, I blocked the number.)
Each one addressed me as “Patriot.”
Coming from the likes of him, that word becomes an insult.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Police say a 4-year-old child in the home had found a loaded firearm in the basement.
“While the child was touching the firearm, it discharged causing a projectile to pass through the ceiling of the basement and through the floor of the main level and into a sibling’s foot on the main level of the home,” according to a search warrant affidavit filed in 3rd District Court.
One more time, “responsible gun owner” is an oxymoron.
The Republican Contract on America 0
Rebecca Watson takes a look at the “Heritage” Foundation’s Project 2025 (warning: mild language):
Or you can read the transcript.
Defensive Driving 0
H. Colleen Sinclair offers some pointers about how to safely navigate the Disinformation Superhighway.
Courting Disaster 0
Joe Patrice dissects the duplicity of Cannon’s law.
Myth Buster 0
In the course of a longer article how, in evaluating candidates for office, we need to look at the big picture when evaluating candidates for office, the Portland Press-Herald’s Victoria Hugo-Vidal makes a trenchant observation (emphasis added):
Follow the link for context.