- This week’s note in Trumpian ‘Alternative Facts’ comes from The Boston Globe, explaining why Trump lies, and why we should care.
- Iron Knee at Political Irony finds parallels between TrumpTruth and George Orwell with 1984 set 35 years too early.
- tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors can’t quite believe he’s quoting David Frum as Frum analyzes Nancy Pelosi’s warm, polite cancellation of my President’s SOTU. Frum reads the courteous, respectful letter carefully, and finds that every sentence draws blood.
- nojo, at Stinque, actually manages to draw a bit of cautious optimism from the Trump shutdown.
- The Onion reports that, after months of refusing to address the issue, the administration has finally launched a campaign to reunite immigrant children with their original arresting officers.
- At Strangely Blogged, the ever insightful Vixen Strangely delves into Steve King’s in-your-face racism and explains why the GOP’s reaction is significant, and why it’s not.
- driftglass doesn’t much care for conservative public figure S.E. Cupp and unleashes withering contempt for her castigation of Representative Ilhan Omar who, in 2016, became the first Somali American elected to any legislative office in the nation. S.E. Cupp continues to be outraged at Ms. Omar for something she did not actually say.
- Frances Langum briefly reviews the likely shady dealings behind the early, early early retirement of a Congressional Rep.
- Libertarian Michael A. LaFerrara has always been skeptical about the potentially catastrophic effect of human activity on climate. Now he suggests that climate has always been wild and destructive and that fossil fuels are part of the solution. The libertarian ideology has a problem with the notion of the classic Tragedy of the Commons, situations in which actions benefiting each person individually are destructive to all individuals as a group. The libertarian response is usually denial that those situations can ever exist. For example: the possibility that humans can cause climate catastrophe.
- In The Life and Times of Bruce Gerencser, Bruce takes a hard look at how some Christian leaders approach lying. I recall being a little less understanding a few years ago about one incident.
- In MadMikesAmerica, Glenn Geist believes an inept science writer gives the Hindenburg dirigible (“Oh, the humanity!”) a bad rap.
- At The Moderate Voice, David Robertson decides we can use some good news. So we can now read 25 stories about folks helping folks, folks helping kittens, bad guys getting beaten by intended victims, good people being honored… that sort of thing. I liked it.
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