- @momwino98 tries very hard to explain why cornflakes were invented:
- Iron Knee at Political Irony draws an unfortunate holiday-in-the-night-of-COVID parallel as one phrase has a tragic double meaning.
- tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors has news on how our madcap Trump administration can screw up everything but a lightbulb. State officials are being told that up to 40 percent of scheduled vaccines will not be delivered after all.
Pfizer has warehouses filled with millions of ready to go doses, but can’t get the okay from federal authorities to ship. I can only speculate, but my guess is that nobody has explained to Trump and company that vaccines can’t work without vaccinations.
- Yikes. It’s documented. Trump COVID policies, the downplay of risks, the denigration of simple protective masks, the mega-spreading events, the lack of preventative action were not a series of simple myopic bumblings. Vixen Strangely at Strangely Blogged reacts to recently revealed memos showing deliberate, directed policy. No longer a conspiracy theory, this administration actually ordered policies calculated to get as many unsuspecting people infected as fast as possible.
The internal memos confirm the horror: a deadly experiment testing a Darwinian construct. As the amateur theory went, several million deaths would have been in the past and forgotten by accountability time. A sort of survival game. The fittest would survive and the world would go on. Modeled after the black death plagues of the middle ages that wiped out large sections of Europe, it would be herd immunity: curing through culling.
- So Vladimir Putin’s cyber-intelligence people have successfully penetrated every computer on every desk of pretty much all of the executive branch, including the military, the State Department, and agencies in charge of our nuclear weapons.
Our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit listens carefully to my president’s outraged reaction ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑ outrage against those supporting accurate election counts. Nothing about the Russian cyber attack campaign. She draws one obvious conclusion.
- In Letters from an American, Heather Cox Richardson details the attack and the horrific damage to national security. Contrasting reactions show President-elect Joe Biden taking on the role of a responsible Commander-in-Chief, and Donald trump taking on the role of ‑well‑ whatever he plays these days.
- John Scalzi at Whatever sees Biden winning and winning until everyone is tired of all that winning. To those who insist it isn’t over for my president, John has a message involving a crudely expressed description of a common biological urge.
- In Hackwhackers Republican heroes who courageously defended counting all the votes that were cast, will now get back to keeping their lifetime promise. They defend their brave stand. The key is not keep votes that were cast from being counted. It’s to keep those votes from being cast so they don’t have to be counted. Not election manipulation as urged by Trump. Simple voter suppression. Thanks, Raffensberger. Thanks, Kemp.
- In an editorial that has been getting some national play, Wisconsin conservative James Wigderson writes on behalf of Right Wisconsin in regret for a pre-election endorsement of Congressional Representative Tom Tiffany.
Tiffany joined in that recent application to the US Supreme Court by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. The Supreme Court refused to hear the demand to overturn the election of Joe Biden by throwing out the votes from select cities in other states – like James’ own Wisconsin.
James referred to the legal application as a naked attempt at preserving power for a president that lost the November 3 election. The last line of the piece is a creative bit of clever snark.
- Green Eagle tries to get past a recurring nightmare about violence this coming January 20.
- Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger reports that it isn’t only Washington. My president has been served an eviction notice in Mar-A-Lago. As in, please leave.
- Bill Barr resigned out of a belated sense of principle, but driftglass seems able to gin up not even a bit of admiration for the Attorney General. And no discernable sympathy.
- Joseph Epstein (no relation to Jeffrey, aside from both being descended from Adam) has a problem with Dr. Jill Biden being called Doctor just because she studied hard and earned a doctorate degree. Since it isn’t medical, it’s a misrepresentation.
In the Ant Farmer’s Almanac, a League of Legendary Doctors, a long list, all suggest that Epstein perform an anatomical improbability.
[Note to Jen O’Malley Dillon: See how much trouble you could have easily avoided?]
- M. Bouffant at Web of Evil documents a notable case in which most US citizens, and official federal policy, did not support freedom of religion.
- David Robertson at The Moderate Voice goes to the textbooks, so we don’t have to, and comes up with how December 25 became Christmas.
- In The Life and Times of Bruce Gerencser, an evangelical leader is in perpetual personal attack mode against atheists. In frustration, he wonders aloud why the number of atheists keeps increasing. Bruce has a possible answer, and offers him a mirror.
- Somebody put up a Black Lives Matter webpage, containing some hyperbole: exaggerated claims about Black people being targeted by an officially sanctioned campaign of extermination. So, of course, libertarian Michael A. LaFerrara educates us on this official position that he is certain is embraced by all of us who support the movement.
- Supporters of supply-side economics have long touted its main advantage: that giving tax breaks to the fabulously wealthy benefits ordinary people by creating jobs. Scotties Toy Box links to a major study of a variety of tax policies in 18 industrial countries over half a century, tracking the results of each nuance. Turns out tax breaks for the wealthy did not produced the new jobs. Science guides us again. Well, some of us.
- North Carolina pastor John Pavlovitz takes a look at self-described pro-life Republican Christians and sees no sign of any desire to protect actual life. They claim to be pro-life, but they are not, in any meaningful way, protective of humanity.
- MadMikesAmerica brings us a non-COVID tragedy as a burglar in Florida comes down with a fatal case of window pane.
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