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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Children should be polite to parents.

A pregnant woman was shot and killed by a 2-year-old at a home in Norwalk Friday, according to an investigation report provided by Norwalk Police.

Just another day in NRA Paradise.

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The Disinformation Superhighway 0

People worry about the “singularity.

They should be worrying about the stupid-larity.

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QOTD 0

Bob Newhart, in the voice of Robert Hartley:

There is a differnce between little white lies and science fiction.

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The Graham Cracker 0

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A Taxonomy of Trumpettes 0

Title:  The Two Types of Trump Supporters.  Frame One, captioned

Via Job’s Anger.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Once more, politeness becomes child’s play.

Thus passeth another day in NRA Wonderland.

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Mean for the Sake of Mean 0

Sam and his crew call out the cruelty.

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The News Recycle 0

Rebecca Watson looks at some recent reports about two apparently unrelated topics: UFOs and COVID. She argues that, as dissimilar as the topics may seem, the news reports have something in common: they are not “news,” they are warmed up leftovers. A bit:

      1. Both are masquerading as “news” when in fact there doesn’t appear to be any new information we didn’t already know for at least a year
      2. Both have no solid evidence to back them up . . .

Follow the link for solid evidence of the lack of evidence.

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Profiles in Courage 0

Shack labeled

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Extortion Contortions 0

At the Hartford Courant, Democratic Congressman John Larson argues forcefully that the debt ceiling as it currently exists is a failed policy. He states (emphasis added)

The debt ceiling as it stands is a failed policy, which gives our worst actors the tools to threaten defaulting on payments they themselves voted for in order to extract concessions.

Follow the link for his reasoning.

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QOTD 0

Carl Jung:

The healthy man does not torture others—generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

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And Now for a Musical Interlude 0

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The Rule of Flaw 0

The writer of a letter to the editor of the Law Vegas Sun nominates the oafs of office.

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Fly the Fiendly Skies 0

Llewellyn King, who travels frequently by air, sounds a warning.

I fly a lot, and I can report that you have no idea what you are in for if you haven’t sought to take a flight recently.

If you want to know what you are indeed “in for,” follow the link.

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The Bullies’ Pulpit 0

We are again reminded that “social” media isn’t.

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A Fable for Our Times 0

Bus Stop Guy:  When I tucked my nephew in at bedtime, I told him that famous Aesop's fable.  There once was a young shepard boy who tended his sheep at the foot of a mountain near a dark forest.  He grew lonely, so he devised a plan.  He ran to the village and cried,

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A Notion of Immigrants 0

The Sacramento Bee has obtained a copy of Florida Governor DeSantis’s trafficking ticket (that is, the “release” his minions had migrants sign before trafficking them to California).

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Yet another random act of politeness.

In related news, Colin Woodard maps out the mayhem.

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QOTD 0

Andre Gide:

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.

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A Tune for the Times 0

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