- Vixen Strangely at Strangely Blogged has special praise for individual efforts to save the helpless in Houston. I think of it as a natural disaster Dunkirk.
- North Carolina pastor John Pavlovitz invites Joel Osteen to regard the heroics of Houston rescuers as inspiration to a more Christian sort of Christianity.
- A few of today’s versions of Christianity sometimes embrace false witness. A developing conservative narrative is found via Saving Common Sense. My friend T. Paine joins in praising those individual rescuers in Texas and defending them from ridicule by nationally known liberal leaders. Maddow, Maher, and Olbermann are mentioned. No examples of that liberal derision seem to be included.
- Speaking of non-factual tales, this week’s note in Trumpian ‘Alternative Facts’ comes from Gary Legum. Seems Keelyanne Conway now boasts about Donald Trump’s humility.
- Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger finds that, by a substantial margin, a majority of the American public thinks my President is on the wrong side of immigration and the pardon of an anti-Hispanic sheriff. I have a thought or two on Sheriff Joe.
- Foreign affairs columnist Brij Khindaria at The Moderate Voice points out growing concern among analysts in European and Asian capitals that President Trump might use North Korea to divert attention.
- Andy Borowitz reports on how President Trump’s horrific spelling has a reassuring effect on the nation. It means he can’t correctly enter nuclear codes during a tantrum.
- Not all satire is non-physical. tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors reports as unidentified person or persons have left realistic fake Trump merchandise. At the Trump Store. In Trump Tower.
- T. Paine, at Saving Common Sense, is angry at Republican office holders for their lack of success in fulfilling the legislative agenda voters really want. Like ending PBS, NPR, Planned Parenthood, NEH. And, most of all, slashing corporate taxes.
- Jack Jodell at The Saturday Afternoon Post doesn’t much care for Arizona’s perennial Republican candidate for pretty much everything, Kelli Ward. I have expressed some …uh… non-agreement with the tasteless Kelli Ward.
- Yellow Dog at Blue in the Bluegrass notices an unusual difference. in the Kentucky Capitol Rotunda, between Confederate and non-Confederate statues.
- At Stinque, nojo takes a look at the valley girl type romanticizing of violence by those too cool kids who pick up the banner of “Antifa”.
- At The Onion, Antifa organizers announce plans to disrupt a neo-Nazi rally or whatever else is going on. You know it’s satire when you get to “organizers”.
- MyCue23, at Random Thoughts, suggests we are losing the ability to experience outrage at things that matter because of a reflexive outrage at everything.
- You see someone yawn. Sometimes you feel a sudden urge to yawn yourself. The Journal of Improbable Research has found a study on contagious yawning among sheep. Photos are included.
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