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Republican Family Values 0

Title:  Inmates.  Frame One:  Undocumented agricultural worker inprisoned in Cecot says,

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

More courtesy on the concrete.

So many guns. So much stupid.

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Tariff Tantrums 0

At Above the Law, Mark Hermann lists a litany of Trumpian tariff threats intended to bully other countries into doing Trump’s bidding.

It’s really worth a look. It’s a titanic tornado of toddler tariff tantrums.

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QOTD 0

Rex Stout:

One of the brain’s most efficient departments is the one that turn possibilities into probabilities, and probabilities into facts.

Stout, Rex, Too Many Clients (New York: Bantam, 1962) p, 123

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Recommended Viewing 0

Gilligan’s Island, Season Three, Episode Four, “The Producer.”

The whole Gilligan’s Island series is a lot of fun, silly for the sake of silly, but that episode is an absolute hoot. Plus, it includes one of my favorite pieces of music, the “Habanera” from Bizet’s Carmen, one of my favorite operas, worked into a pastiche of Hamlet.

I watched it on Tubi, but you can likely find it on other streaming services.

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A Tune for the Times 0

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

When you party, be sure to party with politeness.

We are a broken society.

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History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0

Trish Fontana, whose family survived Fascism in Mussolini’s Italy, hears a rhyme with what’s happening in the U. S. today. She notes that

. . . fascism has become a polarizing force in our own nation today.

Follow the link for her reasoning.

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*Mark Twain.

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Actions . . . 0

. . . have consequences.

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American Stasi 0

Mary Trump sounds a warning.

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The Court Jouster 0

Donald Trump, as Don Quixote, astride a horse atop a wind turbine saying that only he can save New Jersey from the fearsome monsters.

Click for the original image and the artist’s theories as to why Trump hates windmills.

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Stray Thought 0

If Donald Trump is going to going to reinstate the Presidential Fitness Exam, perhaps he should take it himself to show the kids how it’s done. Or at least let the kids know how he did on it when he was in school.

And, yes, I remember taking it. It wasn’t such a big deal, but that was back in the olden days, when I was a young ‘un, and kids stilled played non-video games.

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QOTD 0

Max Frisch:

Technology [is] the knack of so arranging the world that we don’t have to experience it.

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And Now for a Musical Interlude 0

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Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0

Unbiased and objective? That bridge in Brooklyn is still on the market.

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In Translation 0

Frame One, captioned

Via Job’s Anger.

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Speaking of Today’s QOTD . . . . 0

Now even your baggage can have baggage.

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“But It’s the Only Possible Explanation” 0

Rebecca Watson takes a look at the psychology of persons who fall for embrace conspiracy theories. A quote:

He (Cornell University Professor Gordon Pennycook–ed.) found that, as Jamie (Bernstein–ed.) put it, “people who are more likely to rate a meaningless statement as profound are the same people who are more likely to have high religiosity, believe in the supernatural, believe in conspiracy theories, and think that alternative medicines such as homeopathy and reiki are totally legit. Additionally, the people who generally do better on analytical tests also tend to be more skeptical when presented with meaningless sentences made up of buzzwords.”

Or you can read the transcript.

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Sliding into the Singularity 0

A man and a computer are sitting at a desk in book store next to a sign reading

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

Apparently, the Trump maladministration wants “those people’ to remember their place and stay in it.

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