The Victim 0
PoliticalProf parses the perfidy.
Overblown 0
Methinks Jason330 has a point.
The Lies of the Land 0
Washington and Lee professor Robert Strong looks the claims that the presidential election was somehow fraudulent and find them to be almost delusional. A nugget:
Follow the link to see his reasoning.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
How stupid do you have to be not to ensure a gun is unloaded before you clean it?
Aside:
As I have pointed out before, I think that, in many incidents of this nature, “clean” serves as a synonym for “fondle.”
Maskless Marauders 0
A gubernatorial marauder gets schooled.
Sadly, as the article points out, the lesson is likely shortly to be unlearned.
Rule of Flaw, Meet Rule of Law 0
Warning: Short commercial at the seven minute mark. I didn’t listen to it, but the man’s got to make a living.
Aside:
I do quite like David’s term, “Trumpist enclaves on the internet.”
Maskless Marauders 0
A marauder who must pay the price.
QOTD 0
Rex Stout, in the voice of Nero Wolfe:
In a world that operates largely at random, coincidences are to be expected, but any one of them must always be mistrusted.
Stout, Rex, Champagne for One in a dual volume with Too Many Cooks (New York: Bantam, 2009), p.71
All That Was Old Is New Again 0
At the Des Moines Register, Marty Ryan writes of the current movement among some, mostly on the right, to ban books that tell truths which challenge the prejudices of make said book-banners feel uncomfortable. Here’s a bit; follow the link for the rest.
President Ronald Reagan’s attorney general, Edwin Meese, established the Attorney General’s Commission on Pornography in 1986. It was commonly known as The Meese Commission. At the end, the commission issued a bulky two-volume report, much of it consisting of detailed narrations of the plots of pornographic movies dutifully set down by FBI agents who’d been assigned to view them – at taxpayers’ expense, of course.” Not one of those FBI agents turned into a sexual predator. However, the commissioners believed dysfunctional predators who had testified to the commission that “Porn made me do it.” It was laughable. More laughable was the fact that former Attorney General John Ashcroft had blue drapes made to cover the bare breasts of Lady Justice.
Twits on Twitter 0
I might have mentioned this before, but . . . . I remember, oh, maybe 15 or 16 years ago listening to an interview on NPR with one of the founders of Twitter. I think it was on Terry Gross’s Fresh Air show and I think the interviewee might have been Jack Dorsey, but after all this time, I’m not sure and attempts to find it via web searches have been fruitless.
Said founder went on and on about how Twitter would be a positive tool for enabling persons to connect with each other.
Yeah, and Dr. Guillotin was proud of his invention . . . .
Lies and Lying Liars 0
Sam and his crew call out Dennis Prager’s lies.
Aside:
I’m so old that I remember when AIDS was referred to as “GRID (gayrelated immunodeficiency disease.”
