- Great wealth does not preclude progressive, inclusive views. Jack Jodell at The Saturday Afternoon Post finds a billionaire we should consider a hero.
- Yellow Dog at Blue in the Bluegrass is enthusiastic about a candidate for Kentucky’s First Congressional seat.
- Our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit remembers a largely forgotten sad fact about November 22, 1963.
- President Trump boasts about a new invisible fighter plane. Turns out it doesn’t exist. M. Bouffant at Web of Evil may have discovered the source of my President’s aviation confusion.
- So, is Michael T. Flynn really cooperating with Mueller and his Untouchables? tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors says the answer is not as murky as it seems.
- Infidel753 is part of an enlightening (for some of us perhaps chastening) discussion on the extreme flexibility of Christian moralism.
- PZ Myers suggests that the new rules on sexual behavior are anything but new.
- Interesting free speech arguments in California. Jon Perr at PERRspectives covers the irony. Conservatives are furious that anti-abortion counseling services are required to reveal the existence of abortion services. Their argument is that compelled speech is not free speech, even if the compulsion is to tell the truth. At the same time, physicians around the country are compelled by conservative legislation to tell lies about abortion.
- @bjork55 at Bjork Report reposts the revenge porn that seems about to sink Representative Joe Barton. Warning, you can’t un-see it.
- There are murderers, mass-murderers, and serial murderers. blogenfreude says buh bye to the most notorious serial mass murderer of our time.
- This week’s note in Trumpian ‘Alternative Facts’ comes from Dana Milbank, who suggests we have gone beyond isolated falsehoods to a new level of alternate reality.
Oh, by the way,
Hello. The current administration is trying really hard to make sure you don't know you have access to good, affordable health insurance. pic.twitter.com/VU10FkD2Xy
— John Scalzi (@scalzi) November 1, 2017