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A Trumpled Art Gallery 0

Man and woman enter hall labeled

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Yet another oxymoromic “responsible gun owner” feels compelled to discharge his portable phallus at a fellow driver.

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Vaccine Nation 0

Mike Littwin finds it alarming that we lack a vaccine against willful. malicious stupidity.

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QOTD 0

Marilyn Frye:

Men see with arrogant eyes which organize everything seen with reference to themselves and their own interests.

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A Tune for the Times 0

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The Do-Nothing Party 0

Methinks Bill Sher is onto something (emphasis added):

. . . in the short run, Democrats have limited capacity to thwart Trump’s agenda (though I have argued Democrats have wielded what powers they have as well as can be expected).

The people in Washington who can actually stop Trump are not Democrats. They are Republicans. And we should be asking them every day when they will start.

I commend the entire article to your attention.

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Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0

Bubblelicious? At El Reg, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols argues that the AI bubble of hysterical hype is about to burst. A snippet:

You see, now that people have been using AI for everything and anything, they’re beginning to realize that its results, while fast and sometimes useful, tend to be mediocre.

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Vaccine Nation 0

Title:  RFK Jr. Convenes His Vaccine Panel.  Image:  Wizards, witches, and soothsayvers gathered around a crystal ball.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

“It appears that this is a true tragedy. [Royalston] lived here. An occupant of the home thought that he was breaking in and was an intruder, and opened fire. So again, a real tragedy as we work through this,” said Lt. Andrew Smith, of Atlanta police.

Thus passeth another life in the Gunnut Garden of Eden.

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

Via The Charlotte Observer, University of Kansas professor Robert C. Schwaller points out that today’s Confederate sympathizers are redoubling their efforts to whitewash–I use that term advisedly–the legacy of chattel slavery.

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Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0

A competent source of medical advice? At Psychology Today Blogs, David Weitzner suggests that you’d best duck the quack.

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QOTD 0

Angus King:

Jefferson said the states are the laboratories of democracy. But the problem is, nobody reads the lab reports.

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The Ultimate Privatization Scam 0

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The Conclave 0

Title:  Just Another Day in Washington.  Trump:  People say Trump is a dictator.  I'm  not a dictator.  I just have the right to do anything I want, because I'm president.  Vance:  An important distinction, sir.  And, if I may add, sir--you should get ten Nobel prices.  The wars in Gaza and Ukraine are basically over, if you ignore the fact that they are not.  Trump:  Many people are saying it.  Hegseth:  Also, sir, you are a war hero president, commanding the warfighters of the War Department.  You provide warriors like me with more clarity and purpose than a fresh bottle of gin.  Trump:  I deserve some military metals.  Hegseth:  Consider it done.  Vance:  And, you are absolutely not a dictator, but it would totally okay if you wre, considering you have now eliminated all crime in D. D. in a matter of days.  Hegseth:  And despite what the lying media say, your ankles are slim and lively to behold.  Miller (materializing from a flying bat):  Let's not forget--only you have the sheer will necessary to eradicate all Democrat scum like the vermin they are.  Trump:  An excellent talking point, Creepy Guy.  Be sure to use that when you do media hits.  Now, lets get to work.  What American company should I shake down next?  Flying Bat:  Waffle House seems woke to me sir.  Trump:  You know, maybe everyone shold call me a dictator!  Just a joke.  Until it's not.  Vance:  Jawohl, mein Fuhrer.

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

Michael in Norfolk decodes de code. A snippet:

Project 2025, the blue print for the Felon’s second term is basically a white “Christian” nationalist agenda that in many ways seeks to undo the progress made in the realm of civil rights since the early 1960’s, for black Americans, women and other minorities. Hence the Felon’s aggressive attacks on diversity equity and inclusion – in his mind, anytime some non-white or non-heterosexual individual advances economically or socially, it’s at the expense of white, heterosexual right wing “Christians.”

America’s original sin of chattel slavery and the myth of racial superiority fabricated to justify it continue to take their toll.

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Occupied Territory 0

David runs the numbers that show that Trump’s military occupation of Washington, D. C., is backfiring, even as Trump continues to lie about it.

Afterthought:

I wonder. Does Trump even know when he’s lying, or does he just believe what he believes because he believes it?

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A Notion of Immigrants, Suffer the Children Dept. 0

More mean for the sake of mean.

And, in related news . . . .

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Once again, a “responsible gun owners” has taken a child’s life while playing with his portable phallus.

We are a broken society of stupid.

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The Rule of Lawless 0

Yastreblyansky reports that a lot of people seem to be resigning themselves from it.

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QOTD 0

Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis:

There are two kinds of men who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told and those who can do nothing else.

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