2025 archive
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
At AL.com, John Archibald looks at the behavior of Tommy Tuberville, who wants to be Alabama’s next governor, and sees George Wallace rising again.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Another “responsible gun owner” chooses to flaunt his portable phallus whilst traversing the nation’s traveling trails.
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.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
For some fool reason, I seem to hear a rhyme in this statement of the Commander of the U. S. S. Gravely upon its return from patrolling the Caribbean against the dangers posed by Venezuelan fishing boats (emphasis added):
“I follow the news. I also follow the orders of the Secretary of War and the President of the United States, and so that’s what we carry out,” he said.
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*Mark Twain.
American Stasi 0
Sam and the crew discuss ICE agents’ ignoring Americans’ Constitutional rights.
Facebook Frolics 0
Fraudulent (adjacent at the very least) frolics.
One more time, “social” media isn’t.
It’s not the public square, although it seems like it.
It’s a series of private squares and their rulers manipulate them as they wish.
Twits on Twitter X Offenders
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It appears that Kyle Rittenhouse may have, you will pardon the expression, shot himsself in the foot.
Republican Thought Police 0
Rebecca Watson comments on a recent ruling by the Supreme Supremacist Court.
Or you can read the transcript.
Stray Thought 0
Now that the sun is setting earlier, I’ve been doing more night driving.
It seems to me, with these new-fangled headlights, the tern “low beam” no longer has any practical meaning.
Also, ironically, more persons seem to be forgetting to turn on their lights.
We are rapidly devolving.
Ruining the Government Like a Business 0
So this is how the Trump maladministration supports the troops.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
Bubblelicious? Goldman Sachs is dubious.
The Blame Gamer 0
The writer of a letter to the editor of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette details the duplicity of Donald Trump’s blaming all members of a minority for the action of one. Here’s a bit:
Who bombed the Oklahoma City federal building in 1995? Who carried out the 2024 assassination attempt on President Trump? Who murdered Minnesota legislator Melissa Hortman and her husband in 2025? Who murdered Charlie Kirk? Who attempted to kill Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro?
All white men.