Hamburger All Over the Highways 0
Grung_e_Gene considers the carnage in car nation.
Meta: Maintenance 0
My hosting provider tells me that this site is scheduled for maintenance on November 8. They promise that disruption should be minimal, but the site may be unavailable for a bit.
Control Freak Freak Out 0
Michael in Norfolk wonders why the right-wing increasingly acts like it hates America.
He theorizes that it may be because the American ideal–one never reached but often enunciated–of freedom and liberty for all may have become a little too close to being more than a mirage on the horizon. They want to put someone in charge to turn the clock back, if not to the 1850s, at least to the 1950s.. Here’s a bit of his piece:
His Day in Court 0
Seth takes a closer look the Trumps’ testimony in New York.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
She had politeness in the bag.
Guns 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.
Lies and Lying Liars 0
Above the Law’s Kathryn Rubino suggests that some of Donals Trump’s supporters have a drinking thinking problem.
Racing Touts 0
Over at C&L, Frances Langum looks at the polls about next year’s Presidential election and argues that 1) at this point they are of little import and, perhaps more importants, 2) it’s all about ginning up the appearance of a horse race.
Stray Thought 0
Spending a few minutes (or even a few hours, if it comes to that) once a year to cast a ballot is a small price to pay for preserving democracy . . .
. . . especially when you consider that persons are willing to spend days getting a ticket to a Taylor Swift concert.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
(snip)
The Evansville family said Cheeto was shot from behind more than 10 times and left in a ditch on Boonville Harmony Road.
We are a broken society.
Accessories after the Fact, Reprise 0
Susan Estrich exposes the con. A nugget (emphasis added):
But don’t tell that to Johnson, who wasted no time at all in getting on the hard-right bandwagon, wrongly trying to convince middle-class taxpayers that they are the ones who will be paying the bill if the IRS budget isn’t cut.
QOTD 0
Tom Baker, in the voice of Donald MacDonald, and Martin Compston, in the voice of Ewan Brodie:
Donald: Sentimentality is the curse of the working classes.
Ewan: No, Don. The curse of the working classes is the upper classes.
Aside:
One more time, if you can find Monarch of the Glen, watch it (I know it is currently on Tubitv.com). It is a superb series.