Mueller Reading, Trump Befuddled, Freedom Gas, Racism, Sins Original

  • This week’s note in Trumpian ‘Alternative Facts’ comes from MSNBC as my President’s minions-in-government go behind the scenes to weights and measurements, changing the definitions of such things as poverty, contamination, and climate change.
     
  • Andy Borowitz comments on all the disputes surrounding the Mueller report on not-enough-to-prove conspiracy and not-allowed-to-say obstruction in TrumpLand as Robert Mueller himself stokes that controversy by urging Americans to read.
     
  • News Corpse reports on the increasing difficulty my President experiences in keeping his Mueller story straight.
     
  • Jack Jodell at The Saturday Afternoon Post suggests that Donald Trump and Jared Kushner were not only guilty of incidents of money laundering, they continue to run a money laundromat.
     
  • North Carolina pastor John Pavlovitz asks his MAGA friends whether they really think refugee parents are taking their own children and undergoing life-threatening physical hardship finally to arrive in order to steal, set up criminal activity, take away jobs, or anything else other than to escape even greater danger and oppression. He speculates reasonably about those who embrace anti-refugee propaganda, separating the sheep from the goats. Are you among the delicate, frightened white conservative side? Or are you simply a lousy human being who doesn’t care about the suffering of those who are most vulnerable?

  • Remember the warning by Trump folks that immigration would bring a taco truck on every corner? Twitter erupted with a joyful greeting of the culinary prospect. M. Bouffant at Web of Evil, a bit of an amateur photographer, sees an opportunity to triple down.
     
  • Remember when France was the target of American patriotic ire? Seems they were insufficiently supportive of the invasion of Iraq, the invasion that would mold itself into an endless war. Some angry wit renamed french fries into Freedom Fries. Didn’t last long. I am reminded of that bit of silliness as Professor PZ Myers observes a new renaming by the US Department of Energy. Secretary Rick Perry tells us that natural gas is no more. We must all call it Freedom Gas. Hoo boy. It sounds to me vaguely scatological. If Freedom Fries give you a case of Freedom Gas, you can get relief with Freedom Gas-X. It will make you belch excess Perry bloating.
     
  • Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger advises white politicians about what churches to visit, telling congregations how much you hate racism.
     
  • nojo celebrated Memorial Day with a celebration of our form of government, along with an account of America’s three original structural sins.
     
  • John Scalzi at Whatever experiences a burger made with no meat, the Impossible Burger, at one of a dozen and a half locations scattered about the nation. My loved one recently got me to abandon my vegetables a few times to try an all-vegi Burger King Impossible Whopper. I liked it, and I had no idea it was a short-term St. Louis experiment. They say they’ll be going national with it.
     
  • Vincent at A Wayfarer’s Notes is inspired by retirement and the brevity of life to inspire his wife to dance on a bar in a public pub. Pictures are included.
     
  • tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors reads the Book of Revelation and posts a photo, as he beholds a pale horse.
     

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