The Haunting 0
At Above the Law, Joe Patrice warns us to fear the Ghost of Chevron Deference, summoned from the past by the Supreme Supremacist Court.
Navigating the Disinformation Superhighway 0
WHYY, an excellent radio station which I listened to when l lived in the Philly area, offers some excellent pointers for avoiding misdirection ploys on the Disinformation Superhighway.
Ballot Questing 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Sunita Sah offers some suggestions for making sure you are casting your vote intelligently.* Here’s one that’s particularly relevant in these days of the Disinformation Superhighway:
Follow the link for her other suggestions.
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Her terminology is “act(ing) from personal values, not external pressures.”
I like mine better.
Irrationalizations 0
David takes a look at how Trump supporters lie to themselves about who and what Trump is. (Warning: Short commercial at the end, which you are certainly free to ignore.)
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another oxymoronic “responsible gun owner” feels compelled to flaunt his portable phallus.
Mixed Messaging 0
At Delaware Liberal, Alby reports receiving two mailers for Monica Beard, a Democrat running for the state legislature.
He found them curiously different.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
At the Portland Press-Herald, Victoria Hugo-Vidal hears a rhyme. Here’s a tiny bit of her column:
At the same time as Victor was hiding his heritage, on the other side of the family on the other side of the country, in upstate New York, my other great-great-grandfather, Garrett MacEachron, joined the domestic terrorist group known as the Ku Klux Klan.
I commend the entire piece to your attention.
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*Mark Twain.
The Rule of Lawless 0
TYT Sports spotlights the hypocrisy of Trump’s sycophants.
A Pet Theory 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Robert Bartholomew notes that there is nothing new about stories of immigrants eating pets Here’s a bit of his article (emphasis added); follow the link for context.