The Rule of Lawless 0
My old Philly DL friend Noz makes an excellent points about our scofflaw president’s maladministration.
The Frank Diary 0
It don’t get much franker than this.
A Tune for the Times 0
A message from a New Zealander to sane America:
From the Youtube page:
This is what many of us in other countries are feeling about the situation in the US right now. Yes, the Don won, but we know so many of you are as disgusted as we are, and concerned for your country. This song is to encourage you. We see you and know you are not him.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
At the Washington Monthly, Lloyd Green argues that the names of several historical figures rhyme with “Trump.” He lists
Follow the link for his reasoning.
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*Mark Twain.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
Farron debunks de bunk that Trump and the Trumpettes spew to justify sending persons who don’t look like them to concentration camps (I do not use that term loosely) in foreign countries.
Trump has succeeded in at least one thing.
He has made me ashamed of being an American.
This New Gilded Age 0
Next on the agenda: Bringing back child labor.
Influencer Idiocy 0
He wanted “likes.”
Deservedly so.
I sometimes fear that the Disinformation Superhighway is speeding us to a society of stupid.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Once again, politeness becomes child’s play.
Once again, we are confronted with evidence that “responsible gun owner’ is an oxymoron.
Wall Street Weak, Reprise 0
Seth takes a closer look at the stock market’s wildly swinging as Donald Trump single-handedly unleashes chaos on the U.S. economy with his unhinged tariff plan. A quote:
Trump derangement syndrome, for those who don’t know, is when he does something deranged and you, I guess, notice it.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
At The Philadelphia Inquirer, Rann Miller hears a rhyme. A bit of the cadence:
(snip)
What Trump voters, and others, may not realize is that none of this is new, it is part and parcel of the nation’s contract with its people. W.E.B. DuBois, in his opus Black Reconstruction in America, spoke of the racial bribe: the deliberate and strategic method of the planter elite class to extend special privileges to poor whites — particularly in the postbellum South — to drive a wedge between them and formerly enslaved Africans.
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*Mark Twain.
The Grand Plan 0
PoliticalProf susses it out.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
Able to solve complex math problems? I’m sorry, but that just doesn’t add up.