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  • driftglass gets irritated and shouldn’t we all at conservative Andrew Sullivan who manages to imply both sides are to blame for the Capitol Building lynch mob insurrection of January 6.
     
  • Sarah Cooper has a prediction:
     

    My thought:
     

  • So school board members are receiving menacing calls and death threats. Law enforcement investigates. Conservatives cry foul! Why is government conspiring against parents?
     
    Cato Institute’s Julian Sanchez interrupts the drama with a pertenent observation or two:
     

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  • It’s a safety precaution. At The Onion, airlines are reminding passengers to always wait until the fasten seat belt signs are turned off before assaulting flight attendents.
     
  • CNN did a special on how suburban moms in Virginia switched from Biden support to Republican voters. Vixen Strangely at Strangely Blogged takes a look at how CNN somehow missed that all the moms they interviewed were actually conservative activists. Vixen suggests this is more significant than a simple mistake.
     
  • It was a long, long time ago. My Dad was still among us, and a bit annoyed at changing fueling customs. It had become pretty much impossible in his small rural community to find a full service gas station.
     
    Later, as I lived near enough to DC to know, most stations in Washington had followed the national pattern. You pumped your own gas. You checked your own oil.
     
    There were a couple of full service stations in the metropolitan area where an attendant would take care of all that while you waited in your car. Full service meant you would pay a buck and a quarter more, give or take, for each gallon. But wealthy lobbyists were part of life in Washington, so a profit was made.
     
    That was more than three decades ago before the move to Missouri where nobody, and I mean nobody, will pay those high prices.
     
    Turns out those hefty priced gas stations still serve their wealthy clientele in the city of Congress, lobbies, and insurrection.
     
    Tommy Christopher covers the controversy as CNN covers the controversy of high gasoline prices. Except to prove their point that prices are skyrocketing, CNN shows on your TV screen prices from one of those higher than high stations. Viewers around DC push back: HEY! That’s not what we pay!. Sure nuff, the prices on the CNN show are still about a buck and a quarter higher than the vast majority of stations in the area. And even those cheaper DC gas prices are about half a buck more than here in Missouri and most of the country.
     
    Wolf Blitzer needs to get out more, maybe pump his own gas once in a while.
     
  • Oh for the love of Corned Beef Hash!!
     
    Fox Network shows a video and highlights the video and discusses the video and gets angry about the video. The video demonstrates that President Joe Biden is somewhere between racially insensitive and flat out racist in talking about baseball great Sachel Paige. Black, Mr. President, not Negro!
     
    News Corpse reports that the video Fox showed, highlighted, discussed, and got mad about, that video was deceptively edited before Fox aired it. You mean Fox made up a racial incident and faked video to back up the phony story?
     
    Nice!
     
  • A despondent correspondent nears despair.
     
    In recent times, lies have proven to be so maddeningly productive. Is the effectiveness of violence and falsehood ultimately doomed to failure?
     
    Infidel753 takes the long view, examining history and information technology to reinforce a sound prediction: The outcome is inevitable, the battle already won.
     
  • Nojo recalls early life as a small town reporter covering the intricacies of a proposed new landfill, then compares the diligence of youthful reporting to the indignant negligence of contemporary national journalism.
     
    Nojo seems to be reacting to this bit of abrogation:
     

    Not our responsibility to explain!
    Really?
     

  • MadMikesAmerica presents, in cartoon form, one view of the infrastructure marathon.
     
  • Imani Gandy and Jessica Mason Pieklo of Rewire News Group go podcast for us, exploring the strange and troubling meandering thoughts of Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch on the radical Texas anti-abortion law. By his reasoning, if a law is passed that violates a Constitutional right, no court should nullify that unconstitutional law until after it has been enforced and that right has been denied.
     
    Listen or read. You have your choice of the podcast or the transcript.
     
  • M. Bouffant at Web of Evil contemplates next year’s governor’s race in Texas and seems skeptical about one prospective, undeclared candidate.
     
  • Reductress explores why men are intimidated by a strong, intelligent woman pointing a gun at them.
     
  • So football star Aaron Rodgers played around with the truth and got COVID while putting others at risk. PZ Myers puts aside stereotypes of athletes as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar shows the guy, and his mentor Joe Rogan, no mercy.
     
  • You really shouldn’t attack Big Bird. Andy Borowitz reports as Oscar the Grouch cuts all ties with Ted Cruz, even though he had been supporting the Senator as a fellow monster.
     
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  • CalicoJack in The Psy of Life finds a common theme running though much of American history, a theme that is not entirely healthy.
     
  • In Scotties Toy Box, a Christian lawmaker has a list of books that must be removed from schools. Scottie has a helpful suggestion.
     
  • Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger finds that most Americans do not see the US as racism-free.
     
  • As North Carolina pastor John Pavlovitz explains, MAGAs like to tell us there is a “War on Christmas.” Pastor Pavlovitz tells us why they are right.
     
  • In The Life and Times of Bruce Gerencser, an Evangelical pastor tells readers why so many of the flock have abandoned faith and left Christianity. He manages to get it all wrong.
     
  • Nan of Nan’s Notebook does not believe in God. In fact, she is convinced that no god of any kind exists. She has a fair question for those of us who do believe: Where. Is. The. Evidence?
     
    I often refer back to my own formulation, which is mostly a confession of a lack of imagination.
     
  • SilverAppleQueen captures the pain of slowly fading love.
     
  • Wisconsin conservative James Wigderson remembers the personal anguish while helping his parents at election time.
     
  • The Journal of Improbable Research finds a US patent has been granted for a robot personal trainer.
     

A few tweets I thought worthy:

And a few more of my own:

I confess I had some fun with an anti-vax troll after he tried to bully a nurse, overworked treating unvaxxed COVIDers:

Okay, so I don’t much care for Stephen Miller


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