- This week’s note in “Alternative Facts” comes from Truth Out, going through history to argue that departures from truth result in massive horrors. Suggestive of where we are heading now.
- Our current President claimed that former Presidents assured him privately that they supported his wall. Okay so that claim was pretty much demonstrated to be, uh, mistaken. tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors brings us another group of people who secretly spoke to my president within the Cone of Silence in his head.
- Mark at News Corpse watches the Trump Wall debate metastasize as Fox News urges him to declare a national emergency.
- Dave Dubya responds to a conservative question and offers a few quick reasons the Trump Wall should not be constructed.
- Finally, someone has been able to do it. Our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit makes a brief but cogent case for building a wall across the border and making our neighbor and trading partner pay for it. Oh wait. Not Mexico?
- M. Bouffant at Web of Evil has come up with 19 examples of the many, many things on which my President is an expert. Reminds me of the old definition of an expert as someone who knows more about less. Taken to it’s logical limit, that might mean that my President knows everything about nothing.
- Out of the blue, my president parrots the far-fetched Russian invented line on why the USSR invaded Afghanistan to save their puppet government and got destroyed. The new tall tale is that the Soviet Union had to combat terrorism on their southern border. Seems obvious Vladimir told him that bedtime story before tucking him in. Green Eagle discerns a secondary, more dangerous, motivation that would go beyond the usual presidential obtuseness.
- Andy Borowitz reports as Nancy Pelosi announces she will no longer meet with President Trump. She will, instead, negotiate directly with Putin.
- Jack Jodell at The Saturday Afternoon Post sees the Democratic sweep, the rise of Nancy Pelosi, and the quirky moments of weird behavior by Donald Trump since, as indicators of the beginning of the end of this administration.
- America has been blinded by the light as we have gazed on the bright polished surface of the first Bush presidency. Jon Perr at PERRspectives takes a brief glance at the down and dirty undercoat. Mixed legacy seems the destined historical verdict.
- driftglass rejoices at seeing a longtime slippery Chicago machine politician finally get caught and charged.
- Yellow Dog at Blue in the Bluegrass brings back 5 minutes of the remarkable, wonderful Representative from Texas, the late Barbara Jordan. I remember watching and hearing those opening remarks with awe as the impeachment of Richard Nixon was considered in 1974.
- PZ Myers not only likes a couple of Democratic ideas, but finds a reason to tax the rich that I confess had never considered before. He includes two novel reasons the rich should be enthused about increasing the top rate.
- John Scalzi at Whatever talks about dickheads who troll science fiction authors. He notices their number is in a slump. Wonder if that’s true elsewhere.
- Infidel753 takes 10 potential worthy posts and crunches them down into 10 pithy observations. Oh come on, give it a click.
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