Joe Biden, Polls, Media as Massage, Vote Wise, Vlad the ImPutin, Breyer

Jack Benny honored at Carnegie Hall, 1961
Quoting another honoree – this one possibly fictitious;

  • In Hackwhackers, the January 6 investigating committee is calling on fake Trump electors to testify.
     
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  • Ever been corrected by a supercilious conservative who points out that America is a republic, not a democracy? The Propaganda Professor takes a look at the difference and discovers that it’s less than the occasional right-winger may think.
     
    As in: That’s a poodle not a dog, you libtard!!
     
    I have devoted similar thoughts before, when a favored conservative went to James Madison, and I helped James defend himself posthumously.
     
  • driftglass doesn’t have much use for Republicans who are fed up with Trump, and who generously will now show all us ineffective leftist hippies how opposition is done by adults.
     
    I dunno. I’m thinking of Winston Churchill’s discussion of potential cooperation with everyone’s ideological adversary, Stalin’s USSR:
    If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.
     
    When democracy is plausibly at risk, we might temporarily want to temporarily embrace our temporary frenemies, at least temporarily.
     
  • North Carolina pastor John Pavlovitz defends voting rights and is accused of tribalism. He pleads guilty, and defines his version of tribalism differently than his antagonist may have expected.
     
  • Nojo considers motivation, and is not optimistic about the survival of American democracy. He sees a lack of patriotic spirit.
     
  • Perhaps the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak. CalicoJack in The Psy of Life is more generous about motivation, but takes a look at burnout, harboring doubts about whether we are up to saving our Republic.
     
  • Vixen Strangely, at Strangely Blogged, provides the objections, the banning, and the amazement as a county school board in Tennessee bans a Pulitzer Award winning graphic novel about the Holocaust. Mass murder on a mega-scale might be the subject, but the real disturbing parts are some swear words.
     
  • So Maus is banned at a school district in Tennessee. Vagabond Scholar introduces us to the careful, child-introduction to the mega-murder aimed at wiping out all Jews.
     
    Listen, guys, let’s be reasonable. Relax standards and let one of these books in, and pretty soon school kids across the entire state might be exposed to unpleasant Pulitzer Prize winning literature.
     
  • Julian Sanchez of CATO Institute has a thought on school library book banning:
     

  • John Scalzi at Whatever considers book bans, which won’t work and shouldn’t work, and censorship of personal appearances and discussions which should be fought, but probably not with counter-boycotts.
     
  • Libertarian Michael A. LaFerrara objects to children instructing adults on social issues.
     
    The idea is that children attend school because they need to be instructed. Since they have not completed their schooling, they are still uneducated, largely empty vessels waiting to be constructively filled.
     
    He protests that he is not advocating children be seen and not heard, since they need to voice opinions in order to have those opinions corrected by adults.
     
    Think of it as Seen-and-Not-Heard lite.
     
    One possible response is that an idea should not be held responsible for the age of the one who holds it. It should be evaluated on its own merits.
     
    Admitting youngsters and the elderly to adult debate sometimes teaches us the value of defining and defending ideas, which is to say it can teach us to think
     
    To adapt the Gospel according to Paul Simon, the words of a prophet can be written on a chalkboard wall.
     
  • Andy Borowitz documents the painful saga as parents struggle to explain to their children who Sarah Palin was.
     
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  • Frances Langum has the story, augmented by video as Sarah Palin’s lawsuit against the NY Times gets complicated by disease and lawbreaking. Sarah, who refuses the vaccine and doesn’t seem to mind infecting random passersby, gets COVID, then dines out in New York City.
     
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  • Well here’s part of headline stories I had missed about Sarah’s sojourn in Gotham. PZ Myers has the highlights after the COVID infection and after the unmasked, unvaccinated public dinner celebration. Seems Ms. Palin’s dinner companion got thuggish with a news photographer, complete with threats and twisted fingers.
     
    And you thought gangster films were just on screen?
     
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  • Yet another witless anti-mask zealot interrupts a commercial flight by suddenly refusing to follow rules. Our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit reads the account of a planeful of people having to turn around and land – and has a constructive suggestion.
     
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  • At Scotties Playtime, a Florida judge denies a high school girl’s right to an abortion because she only has a B grade point average. The idea is that a less than sterling grade is evidence she is too immature to make a grave decision about her life and well being. He will make it for her.
     
    Fortunately, the decision is overturned on appeal by wiser jurists.
     
  • M. Bouffant at Web of Evil asks an obvious question about humans and hatred after two incidents. In one, a well known actor chases an elderly man around a restaurant screaming anti-Semitic slurs. In the other, a Brooklyn woman decides she doesn’t like Jews, so she assaults, screams at, and spits on small children playing on a sidewalk.
     
  • Green Eagle goes all biblical Daniel, traveling into the liar’s den, confronting and refuting pompous right-wing shibboleths.
     
  • In The Life and Times of Bruce Gerencser, Bruce is urged by my brother-in-Christ “Ansen” that he should try really hard to believe in Jesus.
     
  • Infidel753 has wonderful, truly wonderful, adventures of stupid people.
     
    Whenever I want to feel superior, forgetting my own mishaps, I’ll come back to these.
    Okay, I know it won’t completely work, but maybe it will help.
     
  • Invaluable lessons in life: @momwino98 helps teach us all how to flirt.
     

    @momwino98 #trend #flirtingtips #tiktokmom #fyp #foryourpage #humor #eyecontact ♬ original sound – Kevin

  • More useful life-hacks! Reductress guides us on just how to casually hold a shovel without looking like a murderer.
     
  • You wanna know what Yellowdog Granny has done in the past while drunk? Think love, marriage, and Vegas.
     
  • The Journal of Improbable Research finally YAY-Y-Y-Y-Y finds a study of stretched out words in Twitter posts. Words like YAY-Y-Y-Y-Y
     
  • SilverAppleQueen is in Buffalo, where it is cold, cold, but fortunately she has cats.

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2 thoughts on “Joe Biden, Polls, Media as Massage, Vote Wise, Vlad the ImPutin, Breyer”

  1. Sir, I haven’t read this post yet, but trust that all is well and you’re recovered from that health issue you had a few weeks ago. And now, to the delicious part, *reading*!

  2. Here’s that study the antivaxxer idiot mentioned. https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7032e1.htm If you read it, you will note that it comes to a conclusion entirely different than why they said it was.

    Anyone complaining about me wearing a mask outside or anywhere can be told two things:

    First, if I don’t know you, your option of me counts for two things, diddly and squat.

    Second, your problem with me is a you problem not a me problem.

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