Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Doug Jones sums up the Trump maladministration’s attempt to prosecute the Southern Poverty Law Center for being:
“This is a pure political retribution,” Jones said in a video posted to social media.
Follow the link for context.
Hoist on Her Own Petard 0
A Trump voter is surprised to find that she got what she voted for.
Dis Coarse Discourse 0
At the Portland Oregonian, letter to the editor writer Kyle J. Tobin reminds Ciatta Thompson, candidate for the Oregon House, that, when she points a finger at someone else, four fingers are pointing back at her.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another oxymoronic “responsible gun owner” reveals her politeness, this time at a gender reveal party.
Guns 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.
QOTD 0
Phoebe Atwood Taylor, in the voice of Asey Mayo:
Everyone’s got a right to go to hell in their own way, as ole Cap’n Porter used to say.
Taylor, Phoebe Atwood, The Tinkling Symbol (New York: Norton, 2024) p. 182.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Politeness on the pavement leaves collateral damage.
Marquez was walking on the sidewalk and was struck by a gunshot. Police said the victim was an innocent bystander.
And thus passeth another life in the NRA’s Garden of Bleedin”.
By the Book, One More Time 0
In a letter to the editor of the Las Vegas Sun, yet another person feels as if we are living in a book by George Orwell.
This time, it’s again 1984.
Aside:
That’s Animal Farm one, 1984 two.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Courtesy of Rick Strom, here’s a rhyme.
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*Mark Twain.
The Rule of Lawless 0
The Trump maladministration to federal prosecutors: Forget the law. If you don’t do it our way, we’ll find someone who will.