Immunity Impunity
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Cops stopped a person of color for a (reputed) traffic offense and behaved as expected.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Politeness is going to the dogs.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
The Chief Counsel for the Senate Judiciary Committee declares that asking potential judicial nominees about Brown v. Board of Education is “playing politics.”
Swamp Things 0
Jay Bookman marvels at the corporations who quite willingly helped fund Michael Cohen for no discernible reason. A snippet:
That’s odd. Beyond financing the occasional abortion for girlfriends of GOP bigwigs, Cohen has no discernible expertise on “U.S. health-care policy matters.” Nor has he ever registered as a lobbyist. For its part, Novartis is so comfortable and proud of its just-uncovered association with Cohen and his company, Essential Consultants, that it quickly moved to distance current management from the deal.
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QOTD 0
Rex Stout:
A tiger’s eyes can’t make light, . . . they only reflect it.
Stout, Rex, Too Many Women (New York: Bantam, 1949) p. 50
Break Time 0
Off to Drink Liberally.
Rogue State, One More Time 0
Mike discusses efforts by the Trumplers’ to smear Obama officials as part of the effort to justify Trump’s perfidy on the Iran agreement.
Warning: Language, and lots of it.
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
The racism. The presumption of guilt. The privilege of whiteness.
Words fail me.
(Well, actually, they don’t fail me. I just know when to stop.)
Via Raw Story.
Rogue State 0
I believe that, in pulling out of the Iran Agreement, Donald Trump has signaled other nations, friend and foe, that the word of the government of the United States of America can no longer be trusted . . .