Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
The Trump maladmnistration wants them darkies to know their place.
Sporadic Bloggery 0
Places to go.
The Rule of Lawless 0
The Trump maladministration decrees, “Hatch Act, schmatch act.”
Trickle On Economics Rides Again (or Is That “Still”?) 0
Sam and the crew destroy discuss the rationale for not taxing billionaires offered by the Republican candidate for New Jersey Lieutenant Governor.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
Evidence for the prosecution? Book ’em, Dano.
Hoist on Their Own Petard 0
Methinks Atrios has a point.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
The hunt for politeness continues.
When the pheasant emerged and took to the air, one of hunters in the party fired a single shot that resulted in “multiple pellets” flying past the pheasant and striking Perrone, who received “multiple, non-life threatening wounds,” Fish & Game said.
“Look in the Mirror, Boy!” 0
This article describes as clear a case of psychological projection as we are ever likely to see.
The Grift of Grab 0
Apparently, Donald Trump thinks he has the divine right to things.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
In an article about the mean for the sake of mean that the Trump maladministration is displaying toward immigrants, persons who look like immigrants, and even natural-born American citizens who happen to be brown, Gustavo Arellano hears a rhyme:
That’s one step away from “The Eternal Jew,” the infamous Nazi propaganda movie that compared Jews to rats and argued they needed to be eradicated.
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*Mark Twain.
Republican Family Values 0
Mrs. Betty Bowers marvels at the mendacity.
Separation of Church and State
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Der Spiegel takes a deep dive into the right-wing they-call-themselves Christians who (rather incongruously, considering Donald Trump’s history) wield great influence in the Trump maladministration. Their findings are not comforting. Here’s a tiny bit from the artilce:
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It sounds a lot more like radicalism than like faith. It is the attempt to turn the clock back by several decades, if not centuries – back to a time when men were still men and conflicts were solved with faith in God and a revolver. Jesus and Jesse James. The resuscitation of a quintessentially American myth. An overtly far-right response to left-wing identity politics seen as overly feminine and moralizing. And, ultimately, it is an attempt to dismantle the rule of law.