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And Now for a Musical Interlude 0

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

Words fail me. No, on second thought, I’m not at all surprised.

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Vaccine Nation 0

Thom argues that Republicans are trying to sabotage vaccination efforts so as to discredit Democratic candidates. (Frankly, I wish that Thom’s arguments could be harder to credit. But every time you think Republicans can’t go lower, they do.)

In related news, we got our second Pfizer shots yesterday. The process was extremely well-organized, as it was when we got our first shots.

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The Beloved 0

Image One:  Grieving man kneeling in prayer at the flower-covered grave of a loved one.  Image Two:  Republican Elephant kneeling in prayer before an assault rifle.

Via Job’s Anger.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Try on some politeness for size.

McMinnville police said the man had entered a fitting room to try on pants, when his pistol fell out of his pocket, hit the floor and discharged, striking him in the leg.

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Overlap 0

PoliticalProf.

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Stray Thought 0

Some would have you believe that intolerance of intolerance is intolerance.

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QOTD 0

Red Auerbach:

You handle animals. You deal with people.

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A Tune for the Times 0

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

As we all know, politeness takes practice.

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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American Lottery 0

Woman dressed in American flag dress prepares to spin a wheel of assault rifles labeled

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Phoning It In 0

Trump cultist exercises his freedom of screech by making obscene phone calls to his Congressional representative.

We do not have a civil society.

And the incivility has an identifiable source.

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Vaccine Nation, Cruisin’ for a Bruisin’ Dept. 0

Florida Man sues the CDC to allow him to unleash a fleet of floating petri dishes.

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Courting Religion 0

At Above the Law, Tyler Broker argues that, even as the popularity of religion has been broadly declining across the United States, attempts to favor religion and discriminate against nonbelievers (his term) have escalated. Here’s a snippet:

Federal courts have banned nonbelievers from speaking to their own legislatures, banned nonbelievers from holding private jobs such as wedding celebrants for nonbeliever couples. Another federal panel (that included the liberal-minded Diane Wood and now-Justice Amy Barrett Coney) held last fall that states can favor religious gatherings over nonreligious expressive gatherings, including political gatherings. Never mind that political speech has been universally recognized as being at the heart of the First Amendment guarantee. Never mind there are many cases in which the Supreme Court has held, again, and again, and again, that religious expression must be treated equally with nonreligious expression. Because it is painfully obvious the law has nothing to do with such decisions.

Favoring religion in the law and disfavoring nonbelievers can only be explained by bigotry. Only a bigot would claim religious citizens and religious expression is worth more to this country than nonreligious citizens and nonreligious expression. Only a bigot would claim this country is “only suitable and sustainable for a religious people.”

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Maskless Marauders 0

Florida Man.

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QOTD 0

Herodotus:

There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.

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The Vice of the Turtle 0

At the Idaho State Journal, Chris Huston writes of Republicans’, and particularly Mitch McConnell’s, reactions to Coca-Cola, Major League Baseball, and other organizations who were uppity* enough to take exception Georgia’s new voter suppression law.

Just read it.

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*I use that word advisedly. I am certain it is one that Republicans use behind their closed doors.

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Plus ca Change, Plus la Meme Chose 0

Title:  Life in the Stupidverse--It Goes On and On.  Frame One, captioned

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Owed to “Social” Media 0

Pig is writing a poem entitled

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Be polite to your neighbor.

Jacksonville police say a neighbor told officers while he was cleaning a gun it accidentally discharged and the bullet killed a woman inside her home nearby Sunday afternoon.

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