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This New Gilded Age 0

Michael in Norfolk makes an important point.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Yet another “responsible gun owner” performs a random act of politeness.

Too many guns. Too much stupid.

We are a broken society.

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Instagram Idiocy 0

One more time, “social” media isn’t.

For example.

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QOTD 0

John Dewey:

Democracy means the belief that humanistic culture should prevail.

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A Tune for the Times 0

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American Stasi 0

More mean for the sake of mean.

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This New Gilded Age 0

Frame One:

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Stray Thought 0

It appears to me that Donald Trump’s gut reaction in any disagreement is to side with the overdog.

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Russian Impulses 0

Thom comments on the increasing number of persons who are calling out Trump’s fealty to Russia.

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American Stasi 0

Another person’s story.

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Republican Family Values 0

Know them by the persons they vote for.

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QOTD 0

Peter Abelard:

Constant and frequent questioning is the first key to wisdom … For through doubting we are led to inquire, and by inquiry we perceive the truth.

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A Tune for the Times 0

(Warning: Mild language.)

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Trump’s DEI Hiring 0

Couple looks at sign in front of the White House that reads

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Suffer the Children 0

As has been amply demonstrated, that’s not scripture. That’s a Reupuvlican family value.

For example:

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Yet another “responsible gun owner” discharges his responsibility.

The reporting party stated they were in the area of Moose Creek/Haystack Road and that a person in their hunting group had been alone in a wall tent when the rest of the group heard a gunshot.

The person in the tent was identified as Seth Nicholas Pritchard, 31, of Kokomo, Indiana.

Pritchard was reportedly changing his clothes when his handgun accidentally discharged and struck him in the chest.

So many guns. So much stupid.

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American Stasi 0

Thom comments on the Trump maladministration’s persecution of Ilhan Omar and the implications thereof.

Aside:

I’m a Southern boy. I grew up under Jim Crow. I went to segregated schools. I know naked racism when I see it.

This is naked racism.

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Originalist Sin 0

“Originalist” Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito has just published a new book, So Ordered, a defense of the doctrine of Constitutional originalism (a misnomer if there ever was one, but I digress). At the legal website, Balls and Strikes, Madiba K. Dennie debunks de bunk.

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The Rule of Lawless 0

Donald Trump refers to a judge as “insane” for placing the rule law over the rule of Trump.

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Alfred the Great:

Remember what punishments befell us in this world when we ourselves did not cherish learning nor transmit it to other men.

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