News Hawks and News Hawkers 0
Dick Polman considers the source.
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
A jury of their peers . . . .
The Associated Press, via ABC News, reports that attorneys for defendants argued on Friday that it would be wrong to only pick jurors from a pool of urban residents because they could be prejudiced against the defendants for political reasons.
The Voter Fraud Fraud 0
Well, well, they finally caught a voter fraudster and you’ll never guess who it is (Hint: It’s not an illegal alien or a Democrat).
If One Standard Is Good, Two Must Be Better 0
Jay Bookman of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution calls out Donald Trump’s hypocrisy on freedom of speech. A nugget:
Wars on Christmas and Mongers of Wars on Christmas 0
In The Hartford Courant, Susan Campbell reminds us that there once was a war on Christmas, and it was waged by Calvinists with a religious agenda, not by wingnuts with a political one. A snippet:
Both Sides Not 0
Afterthought:
“Republican Family Values” has always been a con and a scam.
Republican politicians make “used car dealer” and “real estate developer” look like honorable professions.
Naked Lunch Conference Room
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If you honestly cannot figure out whether disrobing in front of co-workers and subordinates or touching their private parts in work settings is improper, The Denver Post’s Kristin Kafer offers some guidance.
In a related article, Tony Norman writes of recognizing privilege.
All the News that Fits 0
In the Raleigh News and Observer, Edwin M. Yoder, Jr., considers the wasteland that constitutes contemporary news coverage in the United States. An excerpt:
In those latter days of print supremacy, few foresaw the chaos generated today by “social media,” which is so often anti-social in effect. Add a twittering president who regards newspapers as “enemies of the people” and applies epithets worthy of a banana-republic caudillo to his critics : “the failing New York Times” and “the lying Washington Post.” Donald Trump is so prolific a source of fables and fantasies that the Post counts them in the hundreds. You needn’t be deeply schooled in psychology to identify his epithets as the projections of his own ingrained hostility to truth.
In a related article, Bella DePaulo attempts a taxonomy of Trumpian lies. A snippet:
Now let me tell you what I found when I tallied Trump’s cruel lies. Instead of adding up to 1 or 2 percent, as in my previous research, they accounted for 50 percent.
The Mythbegotten 0
At The Bangor Daily News, Gordon L. Well reviews some of the myths and mythrepresentations surrounding the Republican tax deform bill. Here’s a bit of his article:
The tax bill was given careful consideration.In fact, the bill was passed in the House and Senate in a hurry, though there was no need to rush. But the GOP wants at least one big legislative win in 2017 to show it was worth turning the entire federal government over to them.
If merely having a bill was more important than what it contained, they will have succeeded. That approach opened the way to all the special interest deals in the middle of the night.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Politeness goes to the dogs.
Then on Monday, Shadow’s left jaw began swelling. A vet found the real culprit: bullets. Two were in her jaw, and she underwent surgery that removed them.
Another bullet fragment just missed Shadow’s spinal cord. “She’s a lucky dog,” Hays said.
Just another day in NRA Paradise.
