- This week’s note in Trumpian ‘Alternative Facts’ comes from The Baltimore Sun as Republicans try to shade their way through the Cohen testimony.
- At The Moderate Voice, Deborah Long tells of childhood cruelty with a gentle pet dog. The animal would fly into an aggressive rage when a mirror was placed in front of him. He didn’t know his enemy was an exact image of himself. As Republicans attack Michael Cohen, she suggests they are failing the mirror test. Ivan Pavlov model, perhaps.
- At The Onion, former assistant coach Congressman Jim Jordan spends the Cohen hearing demanding that Cohen accept responsibility for covering up the sexual abuse of Ohio State wrestlers.
- Andy Borowitz reports how Michael Cohen’s televised testimony left Kim Jong Un doubting whether Trump can be trusted.
- North Carolina pastor John Pavlovitz seems a bit impatient with diehard Trump supporters. He refuses to entertain a reality that doesn’t require anything objectively real.
- Jack Jodell at The Saturday Afternoon Post finds a thousand and one words to describe my President.
- driftglass listens to Mitch McConnell blame Democrats for election fraud committed by Republican Mark Harris in North Carolina and reacts with some skepticism. Okay, a lot.
- Our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit has a few suggestions on what to wear when Trump visits your town.
- News Corpse finds that Fox News obsession with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is getting creepy.
- Neil Bamforth at MadMikesAmerica takes a close compassionate look at assisted suicide.
- In The Life and Times of Bruce Gerencser, atheist Bruce is a former pastor and really knows his Bible. He suggests that if Jesus would appear in fundamentalist churches and repeat “Go sell all that you have and follow me” our churches would empty, and fast.
- Vincent at A Wayfarer’s Notes has been hit with cancer and a heart condition for the last couple of years. That gives him a personal perspective as he applies rational standards to a book looking at cancer through a lens of positive thinking.
- I remember decades ago watching a comedian complaining about how he was treated while flying. He told us he could not tell us the name of the airline, but “I can tell you it was an AMERICAN AIRLINE.” The audience cheered him. John Scalzi is bitter and blunt about his internet service provider. If you hate your internet service perhaps you can take comfort you have it better than some. In the movie Hustle & Flow a man explains in grueling detail what he does for a living. A prostitute reacts: I thought MY job sucked. Makes me ashamed for complaining about a few minutes outage. John’s horror story makes us grateful for what connection we have.
- Who needs the Oscars? Max’s Dad paid for a movie pass and really used it. Now he can give us his own 10 best movies of 2018, a few runners up, and some everyone else loves but he doesn’t even like a little.
- Infidel753 invites readers to let loose their travel fantasies. If you could take a trip anywhere in the world, where would you go, and why? By the way, I have replayed this exercise in pure creativity every week or so since Infidel linked to it.
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