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And Now for a Musical Interlude 0

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Vaccine Nation 0

At the Psychology Today website, Christopher Lane discusses a recent book by Kira Ganga Kieffer, in which Kieffer explores whether (some) vaccine hesitancy in the U. S. may have religious roots.

In these times of measles outbreaks and other incipient infections, methinks his article is worth a look.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Once again, politeness becomes child’s play.

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All the News that Fits 0

David dissects the torrent of lies that a Fox News host is able to cram into a 41 second clip. (Short promo at the end.)

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The Priority 0

Frame One:  Donald Trump says,

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Republican Family Values, American Stasi Dept. 0

In the midst of a longer article about conditions at a privately-owned ICE detention center concentration camp, New Jersey Congressman Rob Menendez offers his theory as to why the Republican-controlled House and Senate are resisting efforrs to look into conditions at said locations:

Menendez, who was making his eighth visit to Delaney Hall, said Republican members of the GOP-controlled House and Senate were ignoring conditions at detention facilities nationwide, because “they want to hide from the fact that they’re tearing families apart.”

Methinks he may be onto something. Follow the link for the context of his comment.

And, while we’re on the subject . . . .

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Case Flaw 0

At Above the Law, Kathryn Rubino reports that, in its effort to gut out the vote, the Trump maladministration’s Department of (in)Justice “can’t keep its own cases straight.”

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QOTD 0

Josefina Lopez:

A privileged position can help you to think that you are entitled to everything, and are above others. Reverse that and you can see how it isn’t true.

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The Name Game 0

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An Ode to the Artist of the Con 0

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Still Rising Again after All These Years, Reprise 0

I’m a Southern boy. I grew up under Jim Crow and attended segregated schools. I know how to decode de code.

Today’s Republican Party wants to bring those days back.

Indeed, they’re not even trying to you-will-pardon-the-expression white wash it any more.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Yet another responsible gun owner decides to expose his portable phallus.

The victims said that a man was showing off a gun and it accidentally went off, striking himself in the stomach and a woman in the leg, police said.

Just another day in the NRA’s Garden of Bleedin’.

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

Southern states erasing

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Words Have Meanings 0

According to my old Philly DL friend Noz, that’s something that the American Stasi seems to have forgotten (if they ever cared in the first place).

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Establishmentarians 0

Michael in Norfolk looks at Republicans’ flouting of the Constitutional mandate for separation of church and state.

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QOTD 0

Kurt Vonnegut:

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

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A Tune for the Times 0

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Emoluments 0

No surprises here.

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The Job Requirement 0

In a longer article by John Young about the defilement of CBS, this comment particularly caught my eye:

DEI? Anyone revolted by the comical hires by this president — the Noems, the Bondis, the Hegseths, the Patels – knows “FUI” is his method.

It stands for “finding useful idiots.”

Methinks he has a point. Go read the article and see what you think.

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The Comey-uppance, Rule of Lawless Dept. 0

David discusses Donald Trump’s vendetta (my word, not his) against James Comey and the implications thereof.

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