- M. Bouffant at Web of Evil manages to find something more massively dangerous than global warming, nuclear war, or my tantrum prone President. Or pretty much anything else man-made.
- @bjork55 at Bjork Report introduces us to a quick 48 year corruption count that seems to show that lawmakers on both sides do it, but one side does it a whole lot more.
- Our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit considers the internal evidence of I’m, like, a smart person. A hypothetical IQ test would only confirm what is already evident.
- At The Moderate Voice, Shaun Mullen argues that Trump is not the infection so many think he is. He is just the symptom of an infection.
- In another epic rant, Eminem seems to be affecting Max’s Dad’s aversion to rap. Turns out the big em has the good judgement to have a bad opinion about Donald Trump, and to put it into a very strong rhythm.
- The professional writing of John Scalzi at Whatever has slowed considerably this year. But perhaps naming a thing reduces the curse. He is finding that introspection and self-exploration helps, especially since he has articulated exactly what the distraction is: Trump. A problem this year for patriots.
- North Carolina pastor John Pavlovitz carefully explains to conservatives why they don’t get to support Donald Trump and be outraged at Harvey Weinstein.
- PZ Myers discovers that Rush Limbaugh is right about something: leftish reaction to rape, but is right in a way that implies something dark and evil about what contemporary conservatism has become.
- Iron Knee is back (Yay!) at Political Irony after a long, long international sojourn. Iron matches an NRA solution with a global test.
- The Intersection of Madness and Reality couldn’t come up with a clever title because writing about gun violence is draining. It is, it truly is.
- (O)CT(O)PUS at The Swash Zone calculates when it is not the time to talk about gun safety.
- With the help of the ghost of Justice Antonin Scalia, nojo at Stinque, tells us what the 2nd Amendment really means and what we should do about it. Presumably, this will bring the back of the hand to the forehead of my friend T. Paine.
- Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger explains the movement: BLM.
- Infidel753 observes endless destructive efforts and warns that, as long as they control Congress, wingnuts will target health care.
- Libertarian Michael A. LaFerrara opines about the bakery in Colorado that turned away business from a gay couple. He agrees that bigotry motivated by religion is still bigotry, but argues that it is more evil wrong to prohibit discrimination.
- Yellow Dog at Blue in the Bluegrass has what may be termed a low opinion of the governor of Kentucky. It got lower when that very state executive decided to campaign against legalizing marijuana because of a prospective epidemic of deaths from overdose. From pot? Really?
- Green Eagle contrasts press coverage of two deadly incidents that illustrate the relationship between news media and the GOP.
- The Journal of Improbable Research has discovered a study that, in turn, discovered a major factor in television commercial avoidance: Apparently viewers are using remotes to change channels.
- Our conservative friend T. Paine, at Saving Common Sense, takes us for a ride. He found an addictive time-lapse video taken from a shipping vessel at sea and at port. We travel in a few minutes from the Red Sea to Sri Lanka then to Singapore and finally to Hong Kong. Warning: It’s only a few minutes long, but if you even think of hitting the replay button you’ll be there for hours. Believe me, I know.
- This week’s note in Trumpian ‘Alternative Facts’ comes from FactCheck.org which, you know, fact checks my President’s de-certification of Iran and discovers the only current non-compliance is that Donald Trump doesn’t like them.
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