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And Now for a Musical Interlude 0

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Another child.

Thus passeth another life in NRA Paradise.

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Trumpled History 0

Title:  New Smithsonian Exhibits.  Exhibit One:  Slavery:  An opportunity for on-the-job training, wiht a picture of a smiling slave.  Exhibit Two:  Indian Schools:  Free haircust, new clothes, English lessons, with a picture of a smiling Indian child dressed in a suit and tie;  Exhitibt three:  Our Greates Presidents (there's only one!), with a picture of Donald Trump.

Via Job’s Anger.

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Windbags 0

Emma and the crew debunk de bunk about wind farms.

Afterthought:

In Trump world, government does not exist to serve the people.

Government–and the people–exist to serve the Trump.

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Suffer the Children 0

We are again reminded that that’s not scripture. That’s Republican policy.

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The Late Night Movie 0

Florida Man.

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Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0

As a matter of fact, let’s make that bleeping stupid.

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QOTD 0

Bernice King:

It is terribly inhumane to block pathways out of poverty because you didn’t need those pathways.

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The Cracker Up 0

Afterthought:

I dined–if you can call it that–at a Cracker Barrel once. It was the day the space shuttle blew up.

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The Climates They Are a-Changing . . . 0

. . . and pretty soon there may be no more icing on the cake.

Glaciers around the world are vanishing faster than ever before. Last year, all 58 global reference glaciers across five continents tracked by the American Meteorological Society lost mass for the second year in a row — the greatest average ice loss recorded in the report’s 55-year history.

Follow the link for more on the melt-down.

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The ICE Identikit 0

Pad of brown paper accompanied by a box of brown crayons labeled

Click to view the original image.

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They Got What They Voted For 0

Farron points out that, occasionally, poetic justice happens.

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Decoding De Code 0

At The Coloarado Sun, Mike Littwin reports that he has found a quotation from George Orwell that illuminates why the Trump maladministration is attacking the Smithsonian (and I would add, by extension, universities and other institutiolns of learning and remembrance):

From Orwell’s “1984”: “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”

Follow the link to see why he thinks that to be the case.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Another oxymoronic “responsible gun owner” performs random acts of politeness.

Musical NotesGuns and stupid, guns and stupid.
They go together like love and Cupid.
Let me tell you brother,
You can’t have one without the other.

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The Me Veneration 0

Does this remind you of anyone in the news?

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QOTD 0

Rex Stout:

. . . the only way to get something out of your mind is to get something else in.

Stout, Rex, Death of a Doxy, (New York: Bantam, 1967) p. 60.

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A Tune for the Times 0

Mangy has a premonition.

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This New Gilded Age 0

Via Truthout, Sarah Anderson runs the numbers. Here’s just one number:

The gap between CEO compensation and median worker pay at Starbucks hit 6,666 to 1 last year.

In other words, to make as much money as their CEO made in 2024, typical baristas would’ve had to start brewing macchiatos around the time humans first invented the wheel.

More numbers at the link.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

It seems that one of those “responsible gun owners” has a notion of immigrants.

Guns and hatred and bigotry–what a delightful ste–oh, never mind.

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The Reverse Robin Hood Party, Reprise 0

David notes that Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” seems to be somewhat unpopular with the populace.

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