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Stray Thought 0

Nethinks one clear warning sign of a rule of lawless is “a secretive police.”

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Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0

A competent legal researcher? Maybe you should check with these lawyers.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Another child.

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QOTD 0

Miguel de Cervantes:

There’s not the least thing can be said or done, but people will talk and find fault.

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A Tune for the Times 0

From the Youtube page:

“Yankee Doodle” was a traditional song (Roud 4501) that predated the American Revolution and was adapted by both British and Americans to mock one another in the eighteenth century. So we felt it was a fitting tune to repurpose on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the birth of the United States, and the No Kings musical protests occurring this weekend which happens to be the 80th birthday of Donald Trump.

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Gutting Out the Vote 0

Steve M. takes a deep dive into the Trump maladministration’s bare-faced lies about attempts to discredit the voting process in California.

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American Stasi, Republican Family Values Dept. 0

Thom discusses the Trump maladministration’s “concentration camps for children.”

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Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much 0

A competent ER doctor? You may be headed for a quack-up.

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The Invasive Specie 0

Two veterinarians looking a sick bovine labeled

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Bob Molinaro, sportswriter extraordinaire, notes

Until it was reported that Brendan Sorsby’s gambling broke NCAA rules, I didn’t realize the NCAA still had rules.

Me, I’m so old, I remember Pete Rose.

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The American Devolution 0

PoliticalProf.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Florida woman finds politeness in a parking lot.

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QOTD 0

Max Eastman:

I still think the worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them.

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Break Time 0

Off to drink liberally.

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While We’re on the Subject . . . . 0

Caption:  When you hit a hornet's nest, it's only over when the hornets say it is.  Image:  Donald Trump running away from a swarm of hornets saying, They're totally obliterated,

Vis Job’s Anger.

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The Art of the Misdeal 0

Over at Balloon Juice, in the midst of a longer post in which he touches on a number fo topics, John Cole puts his finger on why Donald Trump’s war of choice on Iran is not going according to plan (assuming, that is, there ever ever was a plan).

It’s as neat a summing up as I think you’ll find:

One of Trump and many in his regime’s problem is being simply incapable of realizing that other nations and people have agency. People will react to provocations and attacks, and they are not obligated to react in a way that you proscribe.

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Republican Family Values 0

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

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The Privatization Scam 0

Farron follows the money.

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“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0

Michael in Norfolk hears a rhyme in a Russian accent.

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*Mark Twain.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Yet another oxymoronic “responsible gun owner” didn’t know the gun was loaded.

Musical NotesGuns and stupid, guns and stupid,
They go together like love and Cupid.
Let me tell you, brother,
You won’t find one without the other.

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QOTD 0

Eugene Ionesco:

It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.

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