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The Sure Thing 0

Bob Molinaro, sportswriter extraordinaire:

Inevitable, too, was that the creation of mobile online sports gambling sites would lead to addiction for untold numbers of young men, athletes and non-athletes.

He goes on to cite this example.

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QOTD 0

Harry S Truman:

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves… self-discipline with all of them came first.

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A Tune for the Times 0

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If One Standard Is Good, Two Must Be Better, Reprise 0

Democratic Donkey redrawing Virginia's elecction districts.  GOP Elephant says,

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Facebook Frolics, Still Rising Again after All These Years Dept. 0

Police in Rhode Island say they’ve confirmed that videos of a person walking around a town in a Ku Klux Klan robe and hood were part of a hoax for social media, not the work of an organized group.

I’m guessing he may be angling for an appointment to the Supreme Supremacist Court:

Afterthought:

There’s nothing social about acting like a racist for clicks.

One more time, “social” media isn’t.

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Trumponomics 0

Farron notes that conservative economists are not sanguine, discusses Trump’s efforts to end run around the law so as to revive his tariffs, and then wonders why Trump has a tariff fetish.

See the article that Farrom discusses.

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If One Standard Is Good, Two Must Be Better 0

Frame One, captioned

Via Job’s Anger.

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

Gene Nichol is fed up with originalist sin. Here’s a bit of his article about the recent Supreme Supremacist Court decision gutting the Voting Rights Act. A snippet:

Of course this is the pattern of Republican originalist forgetfulness. The UNC admissions case, the Shelby County case (also voting rights), the Sebelius case (Affordable Care Act), Citizens United – all turn their backs on history to favor Republican political preference. And, my word, Trump v United States – the absolute immunity decision – is the least tethered ruling to constitutional text, framers’ intention and historical practice in American judicial history. Alito’s originalism only limits the claims of his adversaries; never his own. It is stunning he can be sanctimonious about it.

Go read the full article for context.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Another “responsible gun owner” feels compelled to expose his portable phallus to a child.

A 73-year-old was taken into custody after allegedly pointing a gun at a 13-year-old on an e-bike near a bike path along Cushing Park Road and Abitz Road in the Town of Delafield, according to Waukesha County Sheriff’s Department Lt. Nicholas Wenzel.

We are a society of stupid.

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QOTD 0

H. P. Lovecraft:

I am disillusioned enough to know that no man’s opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he’s talking about.

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A Tune for the Times 0

From the Youtube page:

You know I’ve been around a long time, but I have never lived through what we are living through now. The great Woody Guthrie wrote this song many years ago. I changed some of the words to fit our times, and I hope you’ll sing it when you are marching. Because sometimes people, sometimes you just gotta SING OUT!

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Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0

A siren’s calling us to simple-mindedness? At the Psychology Today website, John Nosta argues that AI doesn’t replace thinking. It replaces the feeling that thinking is necessary in the first place.

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Dis Coarse Discourse 0

Voice comes from the White House saying,

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Sporadic Bloggery 0

Things to do.

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QOTD 0

Dwight D. Eisenhower:

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity.

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A Tune for the Times 0

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Misdirection Play 0

Title:  Preventing Political Violence.  Image:  Woman holds a sign reading

Via Job’s Anger.

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The Blame Game 0

Mary Trump discusses who is the actual enemy within.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Another of those “responsible gun owners” practices politeness on the pavement.

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The Fee Hand of the Market 0

Peter looks up

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