- Infidel753 has never been much for gun control, but he is incredulous at some of the things conservatives blame for multiple mass murders. Video games? Really?
- There has got to be a great beating emptiness right where the man’s heart should be. Vixen Strangely at Strangely Blogged brings the photo: my President and his First Lady holding the little baby, both parents of the infant having just been murdered in the El Paso massacre, a real tragedy. The photo shows Mrs. Trump smiling, while my President beams broadly while giving a joyful thumbs up. Vixen calls it ghoulish. Good word for it.
- Yellow Dog at Blue in the Bluegrass reacts to multiple shootings with a certain skepticism about religious faith. In the face of horrible suffering, tragic injustice, I can’t say as I blame him. Don’t know as I’m ready to join him. I will say that, to honest believers, evil in the world is one of the two most critical moral difficulties we face.
- North Carolina pastor John Pavlovitz takes another look at conservative tribal Christianity, and suggests a missing ingredient. Jesus is nowhere to be found.
- Libertarian Michael A. LaFerrara doesn’t much like who is on his side. Michael decries the “the explicit racism, the undisputed habit of lying, the credible charges of sexual assault from a chorus of women, the brazen embrace of Vladimir Putin and dictators like him, the corruption of his cabinet, his lies about seeking investments in Russia during the campaign, and so on.” But the alternative is a statist democrat (small d) who will favor more government, which fits his definition of socialism, so… what choice does he have?
Some of these folks seem to have a binary view of pretty much everything. It is a world with no ideological distinctions. You are either against government, or you are a little-red-book carrying Maoist.
- Wisconsin conservative James Wigderson has a good laugh at the expense of a politician’s mangling of a quote. James is seemingly ignorant that the politician was quoting George W. Bush as he mangled that same quote. See my comment, which James thoughtfully published.
- My friend Jack Jodell at The Saturday Afternoon Post posts a few predictions about the thinning of the ranks of Democratic Presidential contenders.
- At The Moderate Voice, Mariano Sana points out, with data, polling, and other evidence, that Americans’ support for immigration is at record highs – but the government is out of sync with their views. So America really is better than Trump?
- At Political Irony Iron Knee (possibly a pseudonym) doesn’t much care for the latest proposed Republican tax cut for the extremely wealthy.
- Vincent at A Wayfarer’s Notes identifies with medical treatment depicted in a fairly old movie about a surgeon who learns how to care about people when he falls ill himself.
- An angry science fiction critic really, truly doesn’t like John Scalzi. At Whatever, the author calmly offers a low key analysis of the criticism that ends up as a devastating critique of the critic. Enjoyable, actually.
- The Journal of Improbable Research discovers a patent on how to flavor alcoholic drinks with the smell of rotten eggs. Glad they submitted that so quickly. Don’t want that idea to be stolen.
- Frances Langum has the story. Actor Danny Trejo has cemented his image over the years, pretty much always playing a very scary, very tough guy. Seems there was a serious car accident and he jumped in to save a child. Second video includes the accident itself – dramatic.
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