- This week’s note in Trumpian ‘Alternative Facts’ comes from CNN, analyzing the ways our President escapes from facts into the womb-like sanctuary of Twitter and Fox News, and the limitations of that retreat.
- Vixen Strangely at Strangely Blogged is one of nature’s most insightful essayists. She explains why this most recent Trump week was horrible on so very many levels.
- Green Eagle considers the serious side of the leader of the free world and an internet message denying the existence of a smocking gun.
- Donald Trump insists that any future attempt to impeach him would result in a popular revolt. At News Corpse, Mark looks at the data and tells us why my President’s boast should be taken seriously. My loved one reacts: to most of America, Trump supporters are extremely revolting.
- Jack Jodell at The Saturday Afternoon Post urges my President to give the world a very special Yuletide gift.
- Jonathan Bernstein watches Mr. Trump’s deteriorating position and advises him not to count on getting his shutdown.
- Dave Dubya recounts his ascerbic comment-section exchanges with a rightist on a now inactive conservative opinion site: Saving Common Sense. I dunno. I have little patience with any brand of conservative who supports any atrocity, any tragedy, any set of deaths, that might annoy liberals.
In the interest of full disclosure, the now retired owner of that site, T. Paine, is my long-time friend. The person with whom Dave fought on-line once periodically haunted our own site. He seems to have left and gone forever, leaving us in dreadful sorrow, as soon as he bumped into our anti-spam policy. We do not publish comments consisting only of links unrelated to discussion. The rest of our readers missed him so terribly they were too overwrought at his sudden absence to express it.
- Infidel753 figures out why Tumblr has launched a self-destructive ban on sexually-oriented content (has to do with greed and stupidity) and examines possible alternatives for those who had thought they had a home.
- M. Bouffant at Web of Evil is funny and profane. And he is one of the few to notice a growing phenomenon in the workplace: workers ghosting employers.
- Yellow Dog at Blue in the Bluegrass reports on legal rape in Kentucky. Has to do with drinking.
- In The Life and Times of Bruce Gerencser, atheist Bruce reflects on how his years as a pastor contributed to his development as a remarkably unsuccessful business owner.
- I enjoy arguing with non-religious friends and relatives when we respect a couple of common sense boundaries. They don’t try to explain why I submit sheep-like to my own insecurities, a fearful lack of self-reliance of which I am not introspective enough to be aware. I don’t try to tell them they have a crypto-religion of which they are not introspective enough to be aware. PZ Myers performs vivisection on noted conservative Andrew Sullivan, when Andrew wanders over that respectful line.
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