Flying Junior at The Swash Zone carefully considers the arguments presented by the administration and allies in favor of tariffs on aluminum and steel until he loses it and blood boils out of his eyeballs.
Tommy Christopher reports as President Trump boasts about an International Energy Agency analysis on a dramatic increase in US oil production jobs. Okay, it wasn’t about an increase in jobs. It was about a projected future increase in jobs. Okay, it wasn’t about a future increase in jobs. It was about a future increase in oil production. Which might mean more jobs, except the increase will come only because of anticipated advances technology and efficiency. Turns out my President was reacting to a Drudge headline without reading the content.
Yellow Dog at Blue in the Bluegrass is in awe as Kentucky Republicans defy their own governor, overruling his crazy cuts, even to the point of raising taxes to do it. For those taxes, they target … wait for it … working people. Well, they are Republicans, after all.
So on the connection between the pharma price gouger, Martin Shkreli, and porn star Stormy Daniels: M. Bouffant at Web of Evil reports that there isn’t any, actually, except for an unfortunate coincidence of similar names. Poor Stephanie Clifford.
Libertarian Michael A. LaFerrara at Principled Perspectives argues that environmentalists have a deep seated hostility to the well being of humans. Makes sense. If we know climate change is a hoax, we pretty much have to be motivated by something evil, right?
The Journal of Improbable Research discovers a study by the University of Oxford on whether group-dancing in sync helps alleviate pain. “Gangnam style” and “Lady Marmalade” and “Wake me up before you Go – Go” were studied among other tracks.
This week’s note in Trumpian ‘Alternative Facts’ comes from former Obama press secretary Jay Carney who is asked what he did when President Obama asked him to say something he knew to be untrue. Can you guess?