Better Ways To Spend My Time 0
I plan not to watch the snake of the union speech.
I’ve got better things to do than waste an hour (or more) watching a boa confabricator attempt to ensnare its prey when I can read about it in ten minutes.
Republican Thought Police 0
Farron points out that the Trump maladministration can’t handle the truth, so it wants to make it to go away.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
To be trusted implicitly? At the Psychology Today website, Cornelia C. Walther says no way. Here’s a bit (emphasis added):
Fly the Fiendly Skies . . . 0
. . . and they are especially fiendly if you are flying ICE air. Grung_e_Gene explains.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
All wet? Just listen to the segment about AI and car washes that starts at about the seven minute mark in this week’s episode of Le Show.
It is both an absolutely hoot and a glimpse into a dark maelstrom of mechanized moronism.
A Notion of Immigrants Meets the Rule of Lawless 0
Kathryn Rubino reports at Above the Law. A snippet:
“The Constitution does not permit the government to arrest thousands of individuals and then disregard their constitutional rights because it would be too challenging to honor those rights,” Brasel wrote in what should be an uncontroversial statement of black-letter law but, well, 2026 makes fools of us all.
Republican Thought Police 0
The Rude One skewers the attempts by today’s Republican Party to white-wash (I use that term advisedly) America’s history and argues that lying about the country’s history is not a virtue, but that
Follow the link for his reasoning, but, remember, the Rude One sometimes uses langauge which some would characterize as rude.
Real Big Men 0
Perhpas this helps explain why so many right-wingers seem to want to exile women back into the kitchen.
The Blame Gamer 0
In a letter to the editor of the Las Vegas Sun, Darryl Cornelius calls out the strategy:
He (Trump–ed.) never takes responsibility for anything; shifting blame is his modus operandi.
Follow the link for his reasoning.
Vaccine Nation 0
Thom discusses RFK Jr.’s latest action to endanger the public health and enable epidemics.
Read the article that Thom references.
Aside:
I’m old enough to remember when the polio vaccine was developed. Heck, when the Salk vaccine became available, my parents rushed me to our doctor’s office as soon as they could. Ditto for the Sabin vaccine.
And polio disappeared.
Now I fear that I will again see pictures of children in iron lungs on my telly vision, thanks to RFK Jr. and Donald Trump.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
He was in the drive-thru lane.
He should have played with his food.
Instead, he chose to play with his portable phallus.
Guns 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.