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The Promise Breaker 0

David wonders whether the Trumpettes are starting to realize that they’ve been conned. (Warning: Language in some of the clips David shows.)

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Vaccine Nation 0

Line of school chidren awaiting vaccinations approach RFK Jr., who's holding a syringe labeled

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The Hollow Man* 0

In the midst of a longer article about Donald Trump’s continuing cascade of lies, Jamie Stiehm makes a prescient observation:

You never know whether he (Trump–ed.) believes his own lies because he tells them so often with such bluster.

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*With apologies to T. S. Eliot.

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Republican Thought Police . . . 0

. . . always fighting for your right not to know.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Another “responsible gun owner” treats his neighbors with politeness.

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QOTD 0

Pierre Charron:

He who receives a good turn should never forget it; he who does one should never remember it.

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A Tune for the Times 0

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Animal Sacrifices 0

PoliticalProf.

The mean for the sake of mean (and money) continues apace.

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Devolution 0

The quest for clicks is a cancer on society.

One more time, “social” media isn’t.

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Vaccine Nation 0

RFK Jr. throws a temper tantrum on CNN. David comments.

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This New Gilded Age 0

Grumpy-looking man sitting behind a desk labeled

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Suffer the Children 0

As has been amply proven, that’s not scripture. That’s a Republican family value.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

And, as we know, politeness is a family value.

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QOTD 0

Donald James:

At least half of my life’s many mistakes can be safely put down to impetuosity: the other half derive from inertia.

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Recommended Viewing 0

If you can find it on streaming (I saw it on Tubi), the Warner Brothers cartoon, The Dover Boys at Pimento Univeristy.

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And Now for a Musical Interlude 0

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“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0

At my local rag, Ronald G. Shafer hears a rhyme from John Adam’s time. In point of fact, it reminds him of 1798’s Sedition Act.

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*Mark Twain.

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The Mirror Image 0

Donald Trump looks at a reflection of himself in the Reflecting Pool and sees a clown lookin back.

Via Job’s Anger.

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Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0

Going rogue? Security maven Bruce Schneier argues that the genie is out of the bottle.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Another “reponsible gun owner” displays courtesy on the concrete.

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