“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
At the Washington Monthly, Robert J. Shapiro hears a most disturbing rhyme. Here’s a couple of bits from his article:
And in Schmitt’s framework, when enemies at home or abroad gain notable political sway, it creates a grave emergency that warrants executive action outside the law. It’s clear why Schmitt was the favored theorist for the Nazi party and a senior jurist in the Third Reich.
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*Mark Twain.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
As trustworthy as that phone call telling you that you owe money to Walmart when you haven’t set foot in a Walmart in a decade?* You should be so lucky.
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*Based on a real life experience.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
At Northjersey.com, Laura Morowitz argues forcefully that Donald Trump’s hostility towards immigrants is fundamentally nothing more than another case of mean for the sake of mean.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another “responsible gun owner” feels constrained to expose his portable phallus to a fellow driver.
Guns and stupid, guns and stupid.
They go together like love and Cupid.
Let me tell you brother,
You can’t have one without the other.
Sportsball 0
I did not watch the Super Bowl. I have better things to do with three hours of my life than watching large persons run into each other at high speed, like, for example, watching reruns of Just Shoot Me, which is an absolute hoot.
And don’t get me started about the corruption unseemly practices of the IOC and FIFA.
But, as someone who lived in the Philly area for many years, I must say, I find the outcome of today’s game to be somewhat gratifying.
A Tune for the Times 0
Mangy imagines Donald Trump’s dystopia.
Disappeared 0
If it’s not on the website, then it never happened.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Michelle Goldberg hears a rhyme from the not too distant past. A fit from her article (emphasis added); the entire piece is worth your while.
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*Mark Twain.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
Donald Trump spreads racist bigoted xenophobic bunk about immigrants.
Katharine Davies Samway and Lucinda Pease-Alvarez debunk de bunk.
The Fifth Columnist 0
At The Philadelphia Inquirer, Trudy Rubin sums up Donald Trump’s foreign policy:
Follow the link for her evidence.
The Privatization Scam 0
And it is a scam. You can voucher on it.
(At about the eight minute mark, Emma and the crew veer off from that subject and discuss listener comments. but the part up to that is well worth a listen.)
Making America Grate Again 0
Aside:
On Thursday’s episode of the Bob Cesca Show, one of the participants–I forget which one–made a remark that resonated with me: that what’s happening today seems to echo the end of Reconstruction.
