- This week’s note in Trumpian ‘Alternative Facts’ comes from The Baltimore Sun as President Trump’s defense of his very tall wall takes the form of increasingly tall tales.
- At The Moderate Voice, Aaron Astor explains where the shutdown is going and why.
- Tommy Christopher watches as an obtuse reporter continues to press Nancy Pelosi on whether she will compromise on Trump walling. Would she accept funding of even a dollar? She patiently comes up with a perfect answer.
- It seems my President has united America, at least on one issue. Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger does the research. Whether subdivided by age, race, gender, party, or what, polling shows all groups and subgroups say no to the Trump wall.
- So the Republican winner of an election in North Carolina won by stealing a truckload of absentee ballots. He wants to get seated anyway. Green Eagle has thought of a simple way to resolve the dispute.
- When reading anything by Vixen Strangely at Strangely Blogged, part of me wants to give up writing, recording, or thinking. Why bother when I can just point and go “like she says.” This time she explains her white knuckle fury at third party voters. She apologizes for being so rude. So eloquently, richly, beautifully rude.
- Yellow Dog at Blue in the Bluegrass reads Digby’s admiration for, and semi-endorsement of, Washington Governor Jay Inslee for President, and disagrees because Democrats depend for for victory on black women.
- Infidel753 has two good choices for the year gone past: one terrific triumph, one terrible loss.
- Jack Jodell at The Saturday Afternoon Post brings up a notable charity, providing desks to schoolchildren in Malawi.
- Max’s Dad is one of tens of millions who watched Bird Box, the blindfolded and stumbling through the wilderness movie, and he doesn’t get it. Apparently the movie is a spoiler of itself.
- The Journal of Improbable Research finds a study on how to identify authors without regard to the words they print, instead seeing only their punctuation. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- Libertarian Michael A. LaFerrara considers whether capitalist principles of supply and demand are the same as communist ability and need. He answers no. He may not realize that he misattributes his “From each according to his ability…” quote. I had some thoughts a while back.
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