“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another “responsible gun owner’ exposes a portable phallus to a child.
Aside:
We went out for breakfast yesterday. As we were leaving the restaurant parking lot, we saw a vehicle bearing a bumper sticker reading, “Guns save lives.”
Yeah.
Right.
American Stasi, Republican Thought Police Dept. 0
Deport them if they dare to disagree.
In these Trumpled times, it seems that’s the new American way.
Lessons of History . . . 0
. . . are meaningless if you don’t pay attention during history’s classes.
PoliticalProf sees a pattern:
Johnson had Vietnam. Bush/Obama had Afghanistan and Iraq. Now Trump has Iran.
Follow the link for context.
Misfire 0
Apparently, Donald Trump’s war of choice with Iran is not going well.
This is what happens when a government is run by wannabe schoolyard bullies.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Angela Wilson looks at the placement of proposed AI data centers and hears a rhyme. Here’s a bit from her parsing of the poesy:
“Black communities face the highest impact from AI and data centers because they’re already disproportionately impacted by climate change, which is driven by CO2 emitted in part by the energy production involved in running data centers,” according to the Climate Justice Alliance.
Follow the link. It gets verse.
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*Mark Twain.
The Rule of Lawless 0
At Above the Law, Liz Dye and Andrew Torrez tell a tale of strange bedfellow united to fight the rule of lawless.
Geeking Out 0
Linux Mint in a Virtualbox VM on Mageia v. 9 with the IceWM window manager.
Real Big Men 0
Veteran journalist John Young argues that today’s Republican Party carries the taint of the Tates.
Suffer the Children 0
As has been well demonstrated, that’s a Republican family value.
Via the Las Vegas Sun, Layla Sayed looks at the effects of the Trump maladministration’s actions on SNAP benefits. Here’s a tiny bit from her article (emphasis added):
These statistics are not just numbers — they’re people not being fed.
Before the new law, SNAP helped feed 41.7 million low-income Americans per month, 62% of whom were families with children.
Emoluments 0
David explains how Donald Trump is looking to profit from his “social” media posts.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
Apparently, the Trump maladministration plans to inensify its ethnic cleansing war against immigrants who are not from white people from South Africa.
(Broken tag fixed.)