Recommended Viewing 0
Walk the Line, about the life of Johnny Cash.
Whether or not you like country music, It is, by any standard, an excellent movie.
The Council of Bent 0
At Above the Law, Mark Herrmann takes a close look at Donald Trump’s brain trust.
A Classic Case of Psychological Projection 0
Rex Huppke finds it laughable, in a twisted, depressing sort of way, that Republicans are accusing Democrats of extremism. He notes that
Republicans have controlled the government for almost two years and have only proved themselves to be the real extremists.
The entire piece is worth the few moments it will take you to read it.
The Laundromat 0
Thom and Heidi Siegmund Cuda follow the money.
Parks and Wreck 0
Donald Trump continues his assault on what Wallace Stegner called “America’s best idea.”
Aside:
If he can’t monetine it, Trump has no use for it.
QOTD 0
Republican Newspeak 0
At the Las Vegas Sun, Ron Mitchell decodes de code.
Vaccine Nation, Reprise 0
David dissects the disinformation disseminated by disgusting deceivers who dismiss documented data.
Vaccine Nation 0
At the Psychology Today website, Robert N. McCauley points out that
- the tens, if not hundreds, of millions of lives that vaccination has saved over the past hundred years from the prevention of crowd diseases (such as smallpox, polio, and measles),
- the current resurgence of measles and death therefrom in America in the face of the newest wave of vaccine hesitancy, and
- recent findings that some vaccines (e.g., for shingles) aid human health in additional ways (such as decreasing the probability of dementia),
why is resistance to vaccination so longstanding and widespread?
Read the article for his thoughts on that question.
The Snaring Economy 0
Apparently, price-gouging is the hip new thing.
There’s are reasons for regulations, and this is one of them.
DOGE Bull 0
C&L follows the money.