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

At the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Nell Auc0in Naquin hears a rhyme goosestepping through the decades from Germany to here.

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*Mark Twain.

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Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0

Dressing up superficial slop in Sunday go-to-meeting clothes? Yes, argues John Nosta who warns us that (empasis added)

It’s important to recognize that slop isn’t simply bad writing. Bad writing is clumsy and unfinished and reflects the process of thinking. Slop operates differently. Its output is optimized for the read rather than the idea. Its purpose isn’t to explore a thought but to create the experience of having encountered one.

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Gone Bananas 0

Florida woman.

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QOTD 0

Terry Eagleton:

After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was.

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A Tune for the Times 0

Warning: Short commercial at about the One-minute mark.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Yet another “responsible gun owner” practices self-politeness.

Whatever happened to “don’t point a gun at something unless you intend to shoot it”?

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

Methinks my local rag makes a good point when they conclude that

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth seems intent on replacing diversity, equity and inclusion with demotions, exclusion and inequality.

Follow the link for the evidence.

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“He Can’t Handle the Truth” 0

Farron comments on Trump’s freakout when a woman had the unmitigated insufferable gall to call out his lies. (Warning: Mild language.)

Afterthought:

Frankly (I do everything Frankly), I don’t think Trump would know a truth if it bit him on the–er–armpit.

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The Peacefaker 0

Title:  Meet the Prez.  Image:  Trump 2024 says,

Click for the original image.

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Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0

A con artist’s best friend? From El Reg:

Aviva (a UK insurance company–ed.) and its wider brand portfolio received an estimated 18,400 plus fraudulent claims in 2025, backed by doctored evidence includeding AI-generated car accident scenes, fake official documents, and fabricated images exaggerating damage.

If approved, the sum of these claims would have amounted to £233 million ($310.3 million) across the year, or roughly £638,000 ($850,000) per day.

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The Art of the Crypto Con 0

John Young looks at the Trump maladministration’s dealings with crypto and postis that

Newton’s Law of Physics has to do with actions and reactions.

Of this president one can assume: For any action there’s an electronic transaction.

Read his piece to see why he so concluded.

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QOTD 0

Leo Tolstoy:

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

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A Tune for the Times 0

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American Stasi . . . 0

. . . Meet your newest propagandist.

Were he still with us, Walter Cronkite would hang his head in shame to see his former employer turn into Fox News Lite.

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The Me Veneration 0

Donald Trump sings

Via Job’s Anger.

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The Belles of the Ballroom 0

Ring of Fire’s Josh Gay follows the money.

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Intentional Ignorance 0

Desert landscape with a bright sun labeled

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Fun fact from the Las Vegas Sun:

After one of the warmest, driest winters on record and a historically arid quarter-century, the (Colorado–ed.) river’s two biggest reservoirs, Lake Mead and Lake Powell, are at 29.5% and 23.5%, respectively, of their capacities.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Yet more responsible gun owners discharge their responsibities whilst traversing the nation’s byways.

We are a society of stupid.

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Sauce for the Goose 0

How about some sauce for the gander?

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QOTD 0

Longinus:

Utterances which appear inspired are often not sublime but merely childish.

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