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A Tune for the Times 0

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The Blame Gamer 0

In a letter to the editor of the Las Vegas Sun, Darryl Cornelius calls out the strategy:

He (Trump–ed.) never takes responsibility for anything; shifting blame is his modus operandi.

Follow the link for his reasoning.

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The Rule of Law vs. the Rule of Flaw 0

Frame One:  U. K. policeman taking Prince Andrew into custody, captioned,

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Vaccine Nation 0

Thom discusses RFK Jr.’s latest action to endanger the public health and enable epidemics.

Read the article that Thom references.

Aside:

I’m old enough to remember when the polio vaccine was developed. Heck, when the Salk vaccine became available, my parents rushed me to our doctor’s office as soon as they could. Ditto for the Sabin vaccine.

And polio disappeared.

Now I fear that I will again see pictures of children in iron lungs on my telly vision, thanks to RFK Jr. and Donald Trump.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

He was in the drive-thru lane.

He should have played with his food.

Instead, he chose to play with his portable phallus.

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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Republican Thought Police 0

LZ Granderson suggests that the way to understand the Trump maladministration’s “war on woke” is to remember that “woke” means to be alert and aware. Here’s a tiny bit from his article; follow the link for his reasoning.

Trump’s self-proclaimed love for the poorly educated has nothing to do with progressive policies or college degrees and everything to do with whom he can convince to believe him. And by making “woke” an insult, Trump and other conservatives have politicized the very tool necessary to help the country fulfill its promise: information.

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

George Yancy makes a strong case that W. E. B. DuBois was correct when he wrote

We have conquered Germany … but not their ideas. We still believe in white supremacy, keeping Negroes in their place.

Follow the link for his reasoning.

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QOTD 0

Michael Pollan:

Design in nature is but a concatenation of accidents, culled by natural selection until the result is so beautiful or effective as to seem a miracle of purpose.

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And Now for a Change of Pace 0

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The Voter Fraud Fraudster 0

At AL.com, Kyle Whitmire unpacks Senator Tommy Tuberville’s claims of massive voter fraud and finds there’s no there there.

Just go read it.

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American Stasi 0

ICE agents taking the U. S. Constitution into custody.

VIa Job’s Anger.

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

State University of New York professor Richard F. Hamm hears a rhyme from an earlier time when poorly trained, poorly vetted federal agents were released unchecked upon the polity.

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*Mark Twain.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

They found politeness in a parking lot.*

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WIth apologies to Meatloaf.

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A Notion of Immigrants Native Americans 0

Words fail me.

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How Stuff Works: The Right-WIng News Cycle 0

Persons you shouldn’t trust tell you not to trust the persons you should trust.

You can trust me on that.

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QOTD 0

John Nettles, in voice of DCI Tom Barnaby to his wife as he reads a newspaper story:

What’s the world coming to, Joyce. Half a paragraph on the crime and a whole page on something that doesn’t exist.

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A Tune for the Times 0

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

Writing at The Seattle Times, Mike Ishii reports that he is hearing a rhyme from his own family’s past. A snippet:

This Trump administration has taken the blueprint of Japanese American mass incarceration and weaponized it against immigrants — reviving the same racist logic, invoking the Alien Enemies Act, labeling people “enemy aliens” and “national security threats,” carrying out forced removals, separating families, and overseeing the massive expansion of a sprawling complex of detention sites that mirrors the one used against my family in 1942.

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*Mark Twain.

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All the News that Fits 0

Thom argues that the concentration of news outlets in very few hands ensures that we get only the news that fits.

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A Picture Is Worth 0

Chef labeled

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