- I can’t quite pin down when Max’s Dad became our national Explainer-in-Chief, but here he is, telling us, compellingly, of what Police Officer Derek Chauvin reminds us as he kneels on the neck of a helpless George Floyd, and why this incident infuriates us as has no other murder in recent years.
- Andy Borowitz pays attention as my president puts the nation on alert for terrorists posing as peaceful 75 year olds.
- nojo, a blogger who qualifies as an intellectual powerhouse, suggests that when power panics, it reveals its nature. Turns out that, in many cities, police protect and serve something other than the communities they patrol.
- Iron Knee at Political Irony takes a look at two cities separated by the Delaware River. One defunded their police department, the other did not. Iron Knee suggests that Defund the Police is an idiotic slogan. How about we stop using it?
- Our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit gets a bit explicit about why Defund the Police is stupid and misleading.
- Scotties Toy Box has a taunt for those who love “the lost cause” of the confederacy.
- In The Life and Times of Bruce Gerencser, Bruce talks about his slow walk away from fundamentalist bigotry against Catholics and the role one doctor played. I can relate.
- PZ Myers explores a question posed by a confessed internet troll. Just because he posed opinions he did not actually hold, just to gauge the effect, does that make him a dishonest person? Professor Myers suggests the answer is obvious.
- The national narrative pretty much settles on Bill Barr as the genius who obeyed my president and issued the order to attack peaceful protestors. After all, he had to clear a wide path to that church photo op. So what led up to that?
Let’s journey back in time for an explanation. Should we critique adults for how they behave as children? Well… not really. But sometimes early behavior at least offers some explanation. Green Eagle takes a glance at the middle school through college bully-boy history of the head of our Department of Justice. As the twig is bent, goes the old saying, so grows the tree.
- driftglass is not at all surprised that 57% of Americans think Donald Trump is a lousy president. He is stunned that 38% disagree.
- JoAnn Williams, mostly recently retired from Biased Unbalanced and Politically Incorrect, ponders why anyone would spend half a million dollars for dinner with Donald J. Trump, and comes up with a distasteful depiction of what turns them on.
- A Trump supporter asks why liberals think Trump supporters are stupid. Nan’s Notebook discovers a list and summarizes. It’s mostly because critics of Trump don’t want to think about worse, more obvious, possibilities.
- Tommy Christopher reports as Trumpers buy into the end of the pandemic because everyone is completely safe, while the Trump campaign insists that everyone attending rallies sign waivers in case they get sick or die. Seems even Fox personalities are a little uncomfortable with that. Hackwhacker calls it a Death Waiver.
- Wisconsin conservative James Wigderson joins the anger at a telephone call between Governor Tony Evers and top Wisconsin Republican leaders about the COVID crisis. Seems the call was secretly recorded. Anger seems like the minimal responsible response to a violation of trust. Neither Evers nor Republican leaders say they ordered or even knew about it.
- Jonathan Bernstein looks at the electoral and legislative landscape and makes a modest proposal. After Democrats get a razor thin majority in the Senate, it might be a good time to guillotine the killer of federal legislation. End the filibuster.
- Congress will probably pass another stimulus bill, something Trump will sign. Infidel753 is for economic stimulus. But the way it has been done and is being considered again is the wrong way to do it.
- The Journal of Improbable Research discovers an academic study that suggests a brain link between computer programming and speech, then somehow diverts to dead salmon.
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