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Dis Coarse Discourse 0

Title:  The Agony of Defeat in the Information Age.  Image:  Two news stands, one labeled

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Denial Is Not Just a River in Egypt 0

Leonard Pitts, Jr.

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Misdirection Play, Diverting the Discourse Dept. 0

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Facebook Frolics 0

Photo phrolics.

One more time, the internet is a public place.

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

There was a young Trumpler from Nantucket . . . .

A historic building central to the history of Nantucket’s African-American community was defaced between Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning with racist and sexually explicit graffiti, according to local police.

Between 4 p.m. Saturday and 7 a.m. Sunday, someone vandalized the island’s African Meeting House, spray-painting a racial slur and the word “leave” on its door alongside a crudely drawn penis on its shingled facade, according to Nantucket’s police chief William Pittman and photos of the scene.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Be polite in the parking lot.

Police were called to the parking lot of the American Bar & Grill in the 1000 block of North Plum Street just before 12:48 a.m. They arrived to find a man with a gunshot wound to the leg.

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Police determined the gunshot wound was self-inflicted as a result of an accidental handgun discharge.

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QOTD 0

Cesar Chavez:

You are never strong enough that you don’t need help.

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Up against the Wall 0

Donald Trump and man looking a head of woeful-looking elephant mounted on the wall.  Man says,

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Break Time 0

VSO.

They will be performing my favorite bit of music, more favorite than anything by the Airplane or Cannonball Addelery or Benny Goodman or even Eydie Gorme (I admit it. I’ve had a crush on Eydie Gorme since I was a teen): Rimsky-korsakov’s marvelous Scheherazade. It’s the only classical piece I enjoy more than anything by Beethoven.

Later:

They nailed it.

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No Shelter from the Storm Troopers 0

Jeff Sessions at podium holding up his lawsuit brief against California and saying,

Via Job’s Anger.

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

A Trumpled campus:

The Missouri Students Association presidential election has been canceled after the discovery of offensive tweets by three candidates who have since dropped out.

Presidential candidates Blaine Thomas and Claire Jacobs dropped out of the race Tuesday and vice-presidential candidate Caius Gillen quit Wednesday after a student journalist publicized racist, sexist and homophobic tweets from their Twitter accounts, the Columbia Missourian reported.

Forget the racism. Whatever happened to how to behave in publ–on, never mind. (Anti)-“social” media happened. Persons forget that the internet is a public place, and behave as if they were in a private place.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Politeness is child’s play.

Authorities say a student accidentally shot himself Friday morning at a high school in Kentucky.

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A student who was in a classroom at the same time the gunshot occurred told CBS affiliate WLKY another student was playing with the gun before it accidentally fired. The student playing with the gun suffered a hand injury, the witness told the station.

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The Desperation of the Dateless DudeBro 0

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QOTD 0

Nikolai Gogol:

It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.

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Responsible Fiscals 0

The Trump administration is indeed draining the swamp, but not of swamp creatures–they are thriving and, indeed, proliferating–but of our money.

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Facebook Frolics 0

Contemptible frolics.

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

Pap Discusses a school that’s being sued for not taking action against racist bullies.

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Fruit Sordid 0

At The Sacramento Bee, Sasha Abramsky discusses how Donald Trump is putting the banana in the republic.

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“Wile E. Coyote, Genius” 0

David Ignatius.

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“Abandon Hope, Ye Who Enter Here” 0

Man entering

Via Juanita Jean.

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