Seldom Balanced – Usually Fair
From Gregory Gonzalez at MadMikesAmerica:
Since the millennial generation is notorious for having such a short attention span, let me sum up this letter in two words so all of you can go back to sharing your deep thoughts on Snapchat- when it comes to voting in the 2018 midterms, DON’T BOTHER.
I don’t know why I’m even making an effort to say anything. It’s not like you’re gonna vote anyway.
Tiny blue and pink bonnets worn by adorable little babies can teach us something important about the reasons Republicans give for plans to cut Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.
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From The Journal of Improbable Research:
Those who wish to appear irresistible to others can always try sitting in a prestige car, say a Bentley Continental GT, in an attempt to boost their attractiveness. But, according to a 2010 research project conducted at the School of Health Sciences, Centre for Psychology, University of Wales Institute, UK, this strategy might work considerably better for men than for women.
From Blue in the Bluegrass:
A coworker who is a republican and trump voter just commented on a shooting at a Louisville Kroger yesterday, and asked me “what is going on?”
“No comment,” I replied, which he took exactly as I meant it: “we both know goddamn well what’s going on here and who’s to blame.”
From The Saturday Afternoon Post:
As your gnash your teeth in anger and disbelief, here’s a scary one just in time for Halloween. Much has been written about the un-American admiration Donald Trump has for authoritarian leaders and powerful mobsters. From Turkey’s Erdogan to Russia’s Putin to Dutarte in the Philippines, to the apparently murxderous Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Saudi Arabia, to a number of other dictators throughout history, and by the fact that Trump keeps close by his bedside a number of Adolf Hitler’s speeches, it is little wonder that the president’s priorities are so very misplaced.
From Green Eagle:
Or specifically, those fifteen “tourists” who murdered Mr. Khashoggi. I am labeling this a guess because I have absolutely no evidence to support my conclusion except a lifetime of experience watching people like this.
Mohammed bin Salman obviously never had the slightest thought that he wouldn’t get away with this brazen crime without anyone really giving a damn. Well, things didn’t work out that way; it turns out that to journalists, the death of one journalist is more important than the massacre of thousands of Yemenis or hundreds of thousands of Syrians. So he got himself into a little bit of a jam. What to do now?
From Iron Knee at Political Irony:
A new survey conducted by YouGov and The Economist teases out something that we have long suspected. Trump voters say that men are discriminated against more than gays, women, and ethnic minorities.
According to the result, the percentage of Trump voters who believe that the following groups face “a great deal” or “a fair amount” of discrimination in America today are:
From PZ Myers:
The latest excuse from Saudi Arabia for the death of Jamal Khashoggi is that he started it — he started a fist fight with a team of 15 professional killers, and they had to defend themselves by hacking him apart with a bonesaw. Our president* might well be willing to accept that story, but it’s out of character for Khashoggi and not compatible with the intent of Mohammed bin Salman and the ruling class of Saudi Arabia.
The murder is nothing new: the regime has been vicious and repressive for a long time, and this is just one case that has erupted into the public eye — it is actually a major error by Mohammed bin Salman, who has been trying to misrepresent himself as a progressive reformer. He’s not. He’s just another criminal thug who has been handed vast sums of money and excessive power by an archaic political system. We’ve seen all the warning signs that he was not a power for reform. Remember Raif Badawi?
From Rolling stone:
Brian Kemp, Georgia Secretary of State and the Republican nominee for Georgia governor, expressed at a ticketed campaign event that his Democratic opponent Stacey Abrams’ voter turnout operation “continues to concern us, especially if everybody uses and exercises their right to vote,” according to audio obtained by Rolling Stone.