Too Venal for Words category archive
This New Gilded Age 0
The Washington Monthly’s Anne Kim takes a deep dive into the “Heritage” Foundation’s plan to bring back robber barons, aka Project 2025, and concludes that “it’s even worse than you think.”
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.
Droning On 0
He says it’s just his hobby.
Fly the Fiendly Skies 0
They are getting fiendlier every day.
State of Secrecy 0
Scott Maxwell discusses the underhanded strategies that Florida’s Governor DeSantis is using to keep Florida’s citizens from knowing the state’s public employees are doing. Here’s a tiny bit:
(snip)
Fortunately, the court system has so far rejected DeSantis’ secret-keeping scheme involving records his staff created while plotting to fly migrants from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard.
The Gold Ruse 0
The Smoking Gun reports on the con.
Follow the link for the details and remember, if some stranger on the phone sounds convincing, it may just because he’s trying to convince you.
He’s a Real Big Man . . . 0
. . . or so he would have you think.
Overt Operators 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Seth J. Gillihan writes of the “7 signs that you’re a covert manipulator.”
Follow the link and see whether his piece reminds you of any over manipulators who may be in the news.
Facebook Frolics 0
One more time, “social” media isn’t.
Indeed, it amplifies the antisocial and propagates the pollution of the polity.
The Patriot Gamer 0
As a Memorial Day memory, Dick Polman offers a quick review of occasions at which Donald Trump showed his (dis)respect for American service members.
Vaccine Nation 0
A prescription for peril:
The stupid. It burns.
More Mean for the Sake of Mean 0
Methinks one could make a strong case that mean for the sake of mean is a core Republican Family Value, at least for today’s Republican Party.
Misdirection Play, Crime Wavers Dept. 0
Thom makes the case that, despite conventional wisdom, inequality (such as, for example, the effects of Ronald Reagan’s “trickle on economics”), not poverty alone, is the primary root of crime.
He provides some telling examples.
In related vein, speaking of arrogant billionaires . . . .
And, in News of Mean for the Sake of Mean . . . . 0
At Above the Law, Joe Patrice theorizes that, in trying to prove just how cruel and cold-hearted she can be, South Dakota governor Kristi Noem may have just possibly stepped in it.
