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A Notion of Immigrants 0

John Oliver calls out the con.

Via C&L.

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False Flag 0

At the Des Moines Register, U. of Iowa professor Elizabeth Heineman makes a strong case that, while the Trump maladministration is claiming to “fight antisemitism,” it’s actually doing something quite different. Here’s a bit from her article (emphasis added):

Lila Corwin Berman, a historian of American Jewish life at New York University, underscores the threat to free speech posed by such disingenuous strategies to fight antisemitism. As she puts it, “the Trump administration is using antisemitism as an excuse to obliterate Title VI, undermine civil rights, and incapacitate higher education. … If Jewish safety mattered, our government would seek to strengthen universities where Americans can learn about the past and think about how to create a better future, and our elected officials would fight to preserve democracy.”

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Stray Question 0

Does this article remind you of anyone in the news?

How about this one?

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QOTD 0

Demosthenes:

You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man’s actions are, such must be his spirit.

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Otter Nonsense 0

From my brother on Virginia’s Northern Neck.

otter swimming in creek

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Sauce for the Goose? 0

The Rude One responds, How about some sauce for the gander?

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Patriot Gamers 0

Title:  Notice:  Trump orders 80,000 layoffs at VA.  Image:  Empty office full of vacant desks.  A phone is ringing.  The answering machine says,

Via Job’s Anger.

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“This Fact-Starved Environment” 0

David talks with Bill Adair, Professor of Journalism and Public Policy at Duke University and founder of the fact-checking site PolitiFact, about the proliferation of lies and lying liars and about news media’s refusal failure to call them out.

This is truly a worthwhile listen.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Self-politeness is the politest kind.

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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Sticker Tariff Shock 0

Grocery employee stockin fruit display labeled

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The Neighbor Hood 0

At the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Maxwell King argues that Mr. Rogers would probably look soomewhat askance were Donald Trump to move into his neighborhood. Here’s a bit:

The thing Rogers abhorred more than anything was a bully. He felt there was nothing so despicable as a figure of power bullying a lesser figure. He made that point in numerous lessons he crafted for the children in his audience.

The recent sight from the White House Oval Office — two of the most powerful people in the world ganging up to berate and humiliate a struggling war hero trying to save his country from an invading force — chilled viewers all around the world. What would Fred Rogers have made of that?

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QOTD 0

Tom Clancy:

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.

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A Tune for the Times 0

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Another “responsible gun owners” just could not resist the temptation to play with his portable phallus.

The stupid. It burns.

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Stray Question 0

Why do so many persons seem to think that daylight savings time “makes more daylight” when all it does is move daylight about?

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Unfriended 0

Caption:  State of the Union.  Image:  Donald Trump on the rear platform of a train car lebeled

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All That Was Old Is New Again 0

Thom argues that Donald Trump is bringing back the spoils system. (And, yes, it was Garfield.)

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Distracted Destructive Driving 0

Honest to Betsy, you can’t make this stuff up.

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The Crypto Con 0

C&L reminds us that cypto is the laundry soap for money-laundering and that Donald Trump is heading for the laundromat.

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QOTD 0

Art Buchwald:

You can’t make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you’re doing is recording it.

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