Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Today’s Secesh are phoning it in.
Republican Family Values 0
Nickolas Kristoff details the deception. A snippet:
The problem? While neither party has done enough to support families and children, the one that is failing most egregiously is — not surprisingly — the one led by the thrice-married tycoon who tangled with a porn star, boasted about grabbing women by the genitals and was found by a jury to have committed sexual assault.
Follow the link for his bill of particulars.
QOTD 0
John Moffatt, in the voice of Hercule Poirot:
The wages of sin are said to be death, but sometimes the wages of sin seem to be luxury.
From episode 5 of the BBC production of Agatha Christie’s Taken at the Flood, which you can find at the Old Time Radio Theater, linked in the sidebar, over there ——->.
Dis Coarse Discourse 0
When you got nothing, well, I guess, all that is left for you to do is make something out of nothing.
Snakes on a Campaign 0
Charles M. Blow make the case that Donald Trump has a way with the reptilian amongst us. Here’s how his article opens:
One wouldn’t be wrong to think that this results in a treacherous environment. But Trump prefers this sort of snake pit because he understands snakes.
Follow the link for his arguments.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another “responsible gun owner” exercises his responsibility.
Police say 51-year-old Francisco Griffin opened fire on the block while arguing with a woman.
Video obtained by Action News shows a woman walking to her car and then a gunshot being fired.
The stray bullet traveled across the street to a second-floor window and struck 67-year-old Deborah Strang in her bed (she was fortunately only slightly injured–ed.).
Too many guns. Too much stupid.