- This is real. News Corpse details three separate studies that link watching Fox News with dying from COVID-19.
- Oh wow! This is a few seconds of impressive drama. Nan’s Notebook turns a boring graph into a rapid month and day race between COVID-19 and other illnesses. COVID-19 starts way behind. Guess who wins bigly?
- Here in Missouri, our governor feels no guilt about the spike in COVID-19 deaths while he refused to take steps against the pandemic. Iron Knee at Political Irony listens to Governor Mike Parson compare coronavirus deaths to car fatalities. After all, he doesn’t feel guilty at every accident. Political Irony performs vivisection on that logic and leaves it in quivering pieces.
- nojo watches my neighborhood as, down the street (okay, couple miles) from where I live, police cover a Black Lives Matter slogan with blue paint, and describes a deeper problem than Mr. Trump. nojo is right about that.
However, local reports by the usually reliable St. Louis Post Dispatch have the repainting ordered and conducted by the City Department of Streets, who required police to stand by. There were a handful of arrests after the third repainting, which I find more satiric than does my loved one:
We paint, they paint. We paint, they paint. We paint, police come. Hey Wait, it was our turn! Protests are supposed to be provocative, after all.
Peaceful violation of the law, with the expectation of arrest, strikes me as respectful of the rule of law. That tradition traces back to Henry David Thoreau, continues with Mohandas K. Gandhi, and becomes iconic in the segregated south with the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King.
- Scotties Toy Box, in one brief sentence, explains what joins bigotry and a flag to produce irony.
- I’m unsure of the year. All I know is it was before I was 7. I do know I was a little kid when I first heard a neighbor insist he was not racist because he had black friends. Now that that’s passé, Frances Langum finds another bit of logic. Right wing folk prove they are not racist when they gather with friends and talk about something else.
- Infidel753 articulates the morally obvious with more clarity than most of us. Preservation of history does not need for us to construct monuments that are, in Infidel’s words, “explicitly meant to honor criminals and insult black Americans.”
- At The Onion, officials are warning that defunding police could lead to a spike in crime from ex-officers with no outlet for violence.
- Our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit finds the story. Putin’s military intelligence folks have been at work in Afghanistan, paying Taliban militants a bounty for each American they can kill. US Intelligence reported this to my President last year, along with several possible US responses. Trump has not permitted any of them. Stunning but not surprising.
- So David Brooks explains the 5 major crises America faces, 5 crises with which my president is not dealing. driftglass loves what Mr. Brooks writes and hates what Mr. Brooks writes and conducts a wonderful rant.
- Okay, so my president has a few shaky moments at West Point. Managing to tremble down a slight incline without a walker, after using both hands to steady a drinking glass from which to sip. M. Bouffant at Web of Evil hears the cry of triumph from conservatives as Trump, in a Tulsa high point a few days later, proudly sips from a glass held by one hand, and responds with some degree of derision. The term “Low Barr” is already taken, so we manage with what remains.
- Even if it was a few days ago. Even if other news has come and gone. Do let’s revisit that wonderful Saturday evening. Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger guides us through the many ways Tulsa was a massive campaign failure.
- In MadMikesAmerica, E.A. Blair celebrates the 117th birthday of George Orwell with an apology for once underestimating the similarities of Orwell’s predictions with Trumpism.
- How doth Barr take Justice out of the Department of Justice? In her Letters from an American, Heather Cox Richardson counts the ways.
- Joe Biden gaffes his way into saying that 120 million Americans have died from COVID-19. Tommy Christopher, who watches Fox News so you don’t have to, sees Sean Hannity mention that laughable mistake to Donald Trump. So Tommy does a bit of homework and discovers the reality was a bit different. Because, you know, Fox.
- PZ Myers shares the entertainment as the steady increase in acceptance of gay rights produces Republican cannibalism.
- Max’s Dad tells the sad, sad story of a Democratic hopeful, running for Nebraska Senator, who wins the primary, then turns out to be an astonishingly creepy ass who likes to crudely proposition women staffers. Democrats are trying to get him to withdraw.
- In The Life and Times of Bruce Gerencser, Bruce takes on the entire idea of Hell. Just look at who gets tossed in the fire and who escapes.
- North Carolina pastor John Pavlovitz takes notice as a conservative Christian leader tells an assembly of approving believers that slavery had its blessings. Reverend Pavlovitz suggests that sort of corrosive distortion of the faith finds a welcoming home in too many houses of Christian worship. In the past, I have expressed similar thoughts.
- So, is coffee good for your health, or is it bad for your health? The Journal of Improbable Research discovers a study by a university in New Zealand that proves the answer is Yes!
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