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Dis Coarse Discourse 0

Witnesses being sworn in at Impeachment hearing, covered in green goop.  One member of the audience says to another,

Via Job’s Anger.

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The Rule of Lawless 0

Will Bunch ruminates on the first days of the impeachment inquiry and what they have revealed.

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Twits on Twitter 0

Sporting twits.

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QOTD 0

Seneca the Elder:

It is wrong not to give a hand to the fallen; this law is universal to the whole human race.

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And Now for a Change of Pace 0

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Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0

A machete at a mall.

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(NRA) Paradise High 0

Two women having coffee.  One says,

Click for the original image.

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Twits on Twitter 0

The bully’s pulpit.

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Watch What They Do, Not What They Say 0

Rand Paul says,

Via Balloon Juice.

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What’s with a Name? 0

PoliticalProf wants to know.

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

At Psychology Today Blogs, Thomas Hills looks at the impeachment inquiry and partisanship and the factors that are contributing to the latter.

Here’s a snippet (emphasis added); follow the link for the rest. It is worth your while.

The psychological research on interpersonal conflict shows that when grievances arise, each side tends to bias the evidence in ways that support their own position. A study by Baumeister and colleagues found that perpetrators and victims basically build dual worlds of facts to justify their opposing positions. Victims see violence towards them as arbitrary and gratuitous and often coming in a long series of injustices. Perpetrators, on the other hand, feel their actions are provoked, justified, and one-off events effectively designed to “correct” imbalances.

The implication may be that no one has objective access to the truth and all sides are equally wrong. However, that is the wrong take-home message.

The “there is no truth” argument is of course exactly what the guilty side of any argument would like you to believe. . . .

Elsewhere in the article, he argues that the roots of this political conflict go back to the Vietnamese War.

I think he’s right about the roots being in a war, but he missed the war by about 100 years.

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The True Believer 0

Man wearing MAGA hat, QAnon tee shirt, and sour look.  Woman bystander asks,

Via Juanita Jean.

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QOTD 0

Lionel Shriver:

Reality doesn’t have to be plausible. Reality can be as preposterous as it pleases.

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The Entitlement Society 0

Bruce Lowery argues that a law suit about a wine-stained $30,000 hand bag denotes a society that’s out of hand. A snippet:

In this case is exposed all the vanity and banality about class and greed and excess, and about the ugliness that lies below the surface of this nation’s well-chronicled “wealth gap,” but is splayed open from time to time, like a shiny pearl, for all to see.

Follow the link for the hard-to-believe details.

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Grepping for Gullibility 0

Writing at Psychology Today Blogs, Christopher Dwyer explores seven reasons why persons fall for fake news and steps to counter them.

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Facebook Frolics 0

Defamatory frolics.

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Misdirection Play, Faux Hunters Dept. 0

Wheel of Fortune type setting with board reading

Via Balloon Juice.

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Tunes for the Times 0

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In It for the Money 0

Shaun Mullen throws the book at John Bolton.

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A Picture Is Worth 0

Goat:  Whatca doing, Pig?  Pig:  I just joined Twitter, but I'm not sure what to do next.  Goat:  Well, you send out a tweet.  (Pig tweets out

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