A Tune for the Times 0
Mangy comments on the Youtube page:
Nobody does ‘snowflake’ quite as well as Donald Trump. There is no issue out there in which Trump can’t figure out a way to paint himself as the victim. Women’s rights? Trump’s suffered because of it. Global warming? Trump’s unjustly victimized by talk of it. Gay rights? Trump’s chances for success are hindered by it. The metric system? Trump says it was designed to make him look fat. Gravity? Just a theory meant to keep Trump down. With all the melting down that Trump does, Mangy Fetlocks thought he deserved a song.
Denial Is Not Just a River in Egypt 0
It’s also a long-standing tactic of apologists for the Secesh. Here’s a recent example:
The Wall Street Journal recently published an article claiming that accounts of the Clotilda, the last slave ship to attempt to smuggle Africans into bondage in the American South, was somehow a hoax.
At AL.com, historian Meg McCrummen Fowler methodically deconstructs the deception.
Stray Thought, Still Rising Again after All These Years Dept. 0
I think I’ve finally figured out just what heritage the “Heritage” Foundation is determined to preserve.
Freedom of Screech in This New Gilded Age 0
Self-proclaimed “free speech absolutist” Elon Musk threatens to take advertisers to court so as to force them to place their advertising speech on Twitter X, because he is absolutely in favor of freedom of speech, or something.
Yeah, I know, it sounds absolutely insane. Follow the link and decide for yourself.
If One Standard Is Good, Two Must Be Better 0
Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA) rips into the hypocrisy of Republicans’ attempting to punish AG Merrick Garland for refusing to comply with a subpoena while a many Republicans have ignored subpoenas without penalty or protest from their own party.
Via C&L, which has commentary.
The Courage of His Conniptions 0
Methinks this sets some kind of new record for weasel-wording.
Break Time 0
Off to drink liberally.
What’s in a Name? 0
Apparently, in this case, getting a job interview.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another oxymoronic “responsible gun owner.” . . . Yet another child . . . .
CCSO (Clay County, Florida, Sheriff’s Office–ed,) said a preliminary investigation revealed the child found the parent’s handgun and accidentally discharged the firearm. Nobody else was injured.
Just another day in NRA Paradise.
Fly the Fiendly Skies 0
They are getting fiendlier every day.
Alphabet Slop 0
As I zipped through drug commercials on the DVR–and there are sure lots of them since advertising prescription drugs to the public was allowed–I theorized that drug companies made up drug names by pouring letters into two big bins like the ones used for lottery numbers–one bin for vowels and one for consonants–then pulled out letters at random from each.
Now comes Roger Kreuz, writing at Psychology Today Blogs, to explain that there is indeed a system to the synthesis of multi-syllabic pharmaceutical gibberish. For example:
Follow the link for an insight to the psychology of branding.
Dis Coarse Discourse 0
Steve M. notes a disparity in the press coverage, which leads him to remark upon what he argues is a longstanding trend. I’m not sure I agree with all his conclusions, but, given that today’s reportage is sweating bullets over Biden’s being three years older than Trump while ignoring (or, at least, de-emphasizing) Trump’s raving falsehoods and fantastic fabrications, methinks his piece is worth a read.
Here’s a bit of his article:
What we have instead is a bias toward normalizing Republicans, a process that’s usually accompanied by an “othering” of Democrats. This has been going on for decades: Walter Mondale was a gloomy wimp, Michael Dukakis was an effete Ivy League weirdo, Al Gore was a prissy egghead, Hillary Clinton was a cackling ballbuster. Their opponents were Real Americans, fond of country music, pickup trucks, and plain-spoken common sense.
