“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.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
A con artist’s best friend? From El Reg:
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.
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.
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.
The Belles of the Ballroom 0
Ring of Fire’s Josh Gay follows the money.
“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.
Sauce for the Goose 0
How about some sauce for the gander?
A Tune for the Times 0
From the Youtube page:
“Lyin’ Eyes” was written by Don Henley and Glenn Frey, released by California’s rock legends The Eagles in 1975. It was apparently inspired by their visions of many beautiful younger women with older husbands in Los Angeles, who they imagined leading double lives and lying and cheating. So it’s a story about moral reprobates, hypocrisy, double standards, and virtual self-prostitution, which made it perfect to adapt to address J.D. Vance’s latest foray into European politics.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Michael in Norfolk argues that the Supreme Supremacist Court has come up with a new right. Here’s the title of his article:
Follow the link for the article itself.
Strict Destructionists 0
At my local rag, Doug Mercado argues that the current federal maladministration seems to have overlooked the bit in the preamble to the U. S. Constitution that states that one of the purposes of the union is to “promote the general welfare.”
Methinks he may be onto something.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Thom argues that the New Secesh are coming out in the open. (Warning: Short commercial at the end.)
Nixon’s Southern Strategy has come full circle.
Richard Nixon welcomed segregationists into the Republican Party.
Now they have taken it over.
All the News that Fits 0
Driftglass looks back at the history of hate radio and reminds us that dis coarse discourse did not get so coarse by accident.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Another “responsible gun owner.”
Another exposed portable phallus.
Another child in another hospital.
Another day in the NRA’s Garden of Bleedin’.