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March, 2025 archive

Republican Family Values 0

Title:  Protecting the Children.  Woman:  Aren't you worried about today's kids being filled with microplastics?  Red-hatted man:  We had lead paint and I turned out smart.  Woman:  What about measles and polio being reintroduced?  Man:  Makes 'em tough.  Woman:  School shootings?  Inevitable.  Woman:  Climate change?  Man:  Hoax.  Woman:  Extreme wildfires?  Man:  They'll adapt.  Woman:  Eliminationg the Department of Education?  Man:  Don't need it.  Woman:  A tiny number of minors who are prescribed puberty blockers?  Man:  We must overthrough democracy to stop it!

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Afterthought:

I wonder what Dr. Freud would have to say about Republicans’ obsession with other persons’ sex lives.

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Constitutional Sawyers 0

Sam discusses Pete Hegseth’s purge of top military lawyers and leaders.

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Russian Impulses 0

PoliticalProf.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Once again, politeness becomes child’s play.

Once again, we are rminded that “responsible gun owner” is an oxymoron.

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The Name Gamers 0

    The stupid, it’s metastasized!
    Now it’s gone all Texas-sized.
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The Rule of Lawless 0

At the Portland Press Herald, Roger Smith thinks he may have caught a tell.

Whether or not he’s right about that (I just can’t bring myself to check it out for reasons that should be obvious), methinks he still makes a valid point

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QOTD 0

Ivan Illich:

In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.

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Geeking Out 0

Debian v. 12 “Bookworm” with the Plasma desktop on a Thinkpenguin laptop. The wallpaper is from my collection.

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A Notion of Immigrants 0

At AZcentral, Erika Andiola makes a convincing case that those who stir up anti-immigrant fears are deliberately pursuing a strategy of divide and conquer.

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All the News that Fits 0

Jeff Bezos as a newspaper boy holding up a copy of the

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The Fifth Columnist, Reprise 0

Mary Trump, niece of Donald Trump and holder of a doctorate in clinical psychology, minces no words in discussing how Donald Trump and his Trumpettes treated President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine.

My government has done many things that I have not agreed with during my lifetime–and many things that I have agreed with–but never before have I felt so ashamed of my country and the direction it has taken, thanks to Donald Trump and to those who thought him competent to lead.

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The Fifth Columnist 0

In World War II, my father was in the Ardennes during the winter of 1944-45. He almost never spoke of his experiences there, but I am confident that he would agree with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s Adriana E. Ramírez, who writes

I never thought I would ever have to imagine a world in which the United States advocated for Russian interests.

Go read the rest.

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Fly the Fiendly Skies . . . 0

. . . and get a complimentary bag of fiendliness.

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Numbers Gaming 0

Congressional Republicans are designing a poke for their pig.

Republicans in Congress are signaling they want to change how the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) calculates the cost of extending President Donald Trump’s 2017 tax cuts, which mainly benefit the ultra-wealthy, by utilizing a budgeting trick that would wrongly suggest that such cuts don’t cost a single penny.

Much more at the link.

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QOTD 0

James A. Garfield:

If any theories or opinions of mine can be damaged by facts, so much the worse for my theories.

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