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Booker T. Washington:

You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.

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A Tune for the Times 0

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Ruining the Government Like a Business 0

As I’ve mentioned before, the business of America is giving America the business.

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The Post Mortem 0

Donald Trump:  These elections were not a referendum on Trump.  How could they be?  I wasn't even on the ballot.  J. D. Vance:  An excellent point, as always, sir.  Stephen Miller:  You remain the most popular president in history, according to poll numbers I just made up.  Trump:  Voters blame us for the shutdown.  But when the Democrats finally cave, I'll crush them--and their stupid Obamacare.  Vance:  Yes sir!  Perhaps you shouldn't say that in public, though.  Trump:  Too late.  I already

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American Stasi 0

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Black Sox Redux 0

No one could have predicted this.

Except everyone who knew that we’ve been down this road before.

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Pay for Performance 0

Tesla shareholders meet.  One says,

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Politeness takes practice.

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Carl Jung:

The healthy man does not torture others—generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

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Anti-Woke 0

Montage of pictures of Donald Trump asleep at public events captioned the

All those complaints about “Sleepy Joe”–little more than psychological projection.

Via Balloon Juice.

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Park Dangers 0

Mary Trump reports on the damage that the Trump maladministration’s government shutdown in doing to America’s national parks.

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

Writing at The Sacramento Bee, Jonathan van Harmelen hears a rhyme. Here’s one brief couplet (emphasis added):

As I spent that week in D.C. reviewing government records, I reflected on the parallels between the past and present. Today, the same failures to protect the rights of Japanese Americans and safeguard American civil liberties, such as the acceptance of racial profiling as government policy, are happening again under the Trump Administration.

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*Mark Twain.

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The Rule(s) of Lawless 0

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American Stasi 0

Apparently, if ICE arrests the wrong persons because of mistaken identity, they just get to keep them anyway, because they can.

Welcome to the rule of lawless.

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As Ye Sow . . . . 0

Florida Man.

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Kurt Vonnegut:

There is never a shortage anywhere of lawyers eager to attack the First Amendment, as though it were nothing more than a clause in a lease from a crooked slumlord.

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A Tune for the Times 0

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Facebook Frolics 0

Profits before people frolics:

Meta internally projected late last year that it would earn about 10% of its overall annual revenue – or $16 billion – from running advertising for scams and banned goods, internal company documents show.

Details at the link.

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

AL.com’s Kyle Whitmire hears a rhyme echoing over time:

Nero is tuning his fiddle. Can you hear him?

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*Mark Twain.

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