- Jack Jodell at The Saturday Afternoon Post is not surprised at the corruption as the President of the United States becomes an in-person commercial, all but passing out leaflets begging heads of state to hold the next G7 summit at his hotel.
Or is it a motel? Statesmanship is confusing these days.
Of course, they agree and stuff the rental fees into his pockets. Jack has his own suggestion for the next summit.
- Obama did some heavy lifting to get America out of the Bush recession, keeping it from becoming a depression, all the while swimming upstream against Republican obstruction. The new upward trend continues today. Our current President tries to take credit.
Jon Perr at PERRspectives watches the trend possibly coming to a Republican end. President Trump blames Obama nineteen months after the recovery architect has left office.
- Our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit is impressed that Republicans are not impressed with the illegal strings my President is pulling to get his southern wall.
- tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors looks at the phone calls from China begging President Trump to resume negotiations. Background: Trump officials conceded calls were uh … conflated … projected … didn’t quite happen that way … uh. tengrain suggests the possibility that just maybe my President made stuff up again. You know: lying.
- We’ve heard the story. Some Trump loyalist interrupts a Biden town hall event to yell “Greatest president we ever had!” Tommy Christopher provides the context. Biden had just described a Trump administration initiative against kids who are in the United States legally to get medical treatment without which they will die. Their parents have been ordered to get their children out of the country within 33 days. So here’s the story: A Trump supporter is reduced to cheering for a vicious war on very sick kids.
- Scotties Toy Box brings us an important, but overlooked, aspect of the ICE raid in Mississippi.
- It still looks like everyone has a cousin who wants to be President, although some winnowing is finally providing some relief. Infidel753 points out the critical difference between the next election and those in the past that involved administrations with some sanity. He suggests a huge amount of enthusiastic unity no matter the convention outcome. Well articulated common sense.
- The flock of Democratic Presidential hopefuls is shrinking. Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger approves of the way Kirsten Gillibrand has bowed out, vowing unity in ousting Trump.
- PZ Myers brings us a too rare, but significant, bright side of a growing humanitarian crisis of refugees fleeing horrible death: the heroic Pia Klemp.
- Libertarian Michael A. LaFerrara takes on the question of what would happen if what conservatives call the welfare state ended. Would a private safety net work? It’s an easy question for Michael. Whatever happens in a capitalistic system works, by definition. Case closed.
- The Journal of Improbable Research wonders whether we should be alarmed or happy at new studies showing plantlife absorbing microplastics.
- Vagabond Scholar misses famous blogger, sometime actor, fount of wisdom, and all-around good guy, skippy. Requiescet in pace.
- The John W. Campbell Award for excellent writing has been around for a long time. Now comes the charge that Campbell was a bit of a … well … fascist. New award winner Jeannette Ng raises enough of a ruckus about it to prompt a renaming of the award: All to the anger of fans who thought she was out of line. John Scalzi is a past recipient of the award. He seems to think she was right and the ruckus was righteous.
- Glenn Geist, writing in MadMikesAmerica, tells of a pair who launched themselves on a raft from the coast Florida and have not yet been found. Their wives are confident because the families are prayer warriors. Glenn is skeptical, and suggests that just a few simple safety precautions might have protected them more than a reliance on requests to God. Comments mirror the lack of confidence in the wisdom of the rafters.
We just conducted our own discussions on prayer following thoughts by North Carolina pastor John Pavlovitz. He suggests that prayer doesn’t work, but encourages prayer anyway.
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