- In MadMikesAmerica, Glenn Geist takes a look at the Call-To-Arms ad campaign of the Second Amendment Foundation and sees some scary stuff.
- Vixen Strangely at Strangely Blogged studies the FBI announcement, after they break up the plot to kidnap, try, then execute the Governor of Michigan, and points out that the iceberg! beneath this tip floats atop some blatant presidential rhetoric.
- At The Onion, White nationalists are under pressure. They have been faithfully plotting violence against everyone Trump wants attacked, but now complain they are spread way too thin, overwhelmed by the shear number of targets. On the other hand, they don’t want to be denounced by the president as a bunch of slackers. Like Barr and Wray.
- Infidel753 explores the sociopathic mimicry of my president by other infected Republicans, following the example of our fearless leader. Mentioned is one dark suggestion that there must be a secret Democratic plot somewhere, because only national Republicans are catching COVID. Infidel points out that, sadly, these muddled, infected individuals will take a whole lot of innocents down with them.
- Sarah Cooper hears my president raving about his miracle (as yet undocumented) recovery and his promise to provide the same treatment to everyone. She devotes a line or two to one underreported, essential corollary.
- Any time medical authorities want the latest and most reliable research, they go to one source. Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger reads through the The New England Journal of Medicine as they review the US election for President.
- The policy editor of NBC News says holding a second debate, the townhall, with just Joe Biden is unfair considering the uncertainty about my president’s health. Cato’s Julian Sanchez devotes 20 words to committing vivisection on that argument.
- News Corpse bravely listens in, as my president is interviewed this week by Maria Bartiromo on Fox News, and counts up a few of the most demented moments. Everyone’s favorite must be his demand that Attorney General Bill Barr put Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden on trial and in prison. Because that’s how democracies work.
One alarming thought. If anything happens to Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump will become President.
- Ant Farmer’s Almanac gets the first public comments from the fly on Pence’s head.
- Max’s Dad watched the VP debate and concluded that it was about more than a fly in the hair. Entertaining analysis.
- Another hair issue might be more substantial than we thought. Our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit counts the ways of The Apprentice.
Tax experts say you can’t deduct haircuts or beauty parlor visits for… you know… hair styling. And NBC folks say the network generally covers the cost of hair prep, not their TV personalities. Still, Trump’s own production company also deducted the cost of his phenomenal hairdo, thus reducing the Trump tax bill. Then for federal and state tax purposes, Mr. Trump deducted $70,000 yet again for those same hair styling primping sessions for that same TV program.
Let’s see:- Shouldn’t have been deducted by anyone.
- The network supposedly paid for it, but even the network couldn’t deduct it (see 1)
- Trump deducted it through his company anyway: the savings went into Trump’s pocket, which was pretty bad (see 1 + 2)
- Then Trump deducted it personally as well, which is glaring, considering 1 + 2 + 3
- $70,000? For HAIRDOs? Are you freaking kidding me?
- All those years when I had hair. Now it’s too late.
- $750 in federal taxes. Not really relevant, but $750? Geez.
CPAs, lawyers, mathematicians, physicists, and philosophers are still calculating the number of tax fraud counts entangled in those deducted head follicles. - In Scotties Toy Box, Eric Trump points out what I never knew. My president “literally saved Christianity!” Can’t wait to tell the pastor tomorrow!
- Iron Knee at Political Irony exhibits a few pretty pictures to show us the 2020 election ballot.
- driftglass surrenders to a few moments of schadenfreude as my President witlessly demolishes the Both-Sides-Are-Equally-Wrong movement. I don’t recall ever objecting to the idea that the truth is almost precisely between both sides when it is a considered conclusion. I object to its most common form, that of an unexamined premise. So driftglass deserves his moment.
- Vagabond Scholar watches the censorship bonfire as he provides this year’s list of most commonly banned books.
- A lot of software works this way. Some executive in a corner office comes up with a really cool idea and demands programmers code it. Then users turn out to hate it. Damn stinking users better get used to it!
WordPress has imposed a new editor that bloggers hate. With. A. Passion. In Nan’s Notebook, she suffers along with everyone else, until -> she discovers and shares a workaround.
- The Journal of Improbable Research publishes a brief account of new scholarship on equine reproduction with this key sentence:
The number of published research studies about the effects of cashew gum and nanoparticles on cooled stallion semen has increased by one, with the arrival of this new study.
How can anyone resist finding out more?