Trump Down, Comey Up, Racist PAC, Ayn Clinton, LSD

  • Jack Jodell at The Saturday Afternoon Post counts the most recent reasons my president should be removed by the voters.
     
  • @bjork55 at Bjork Report marvels that House Republicans did not seem to know that their preemptive release of the Comey memos would have an effect directly opposite from what they intended.
     
  • Wisconsin conservative James Wigderson reports that one time Democrat, now extreme right wing Republican Senate candidate, Kevin Nicholson has accepted the endorsement of a PAC run by racist scam artists.
     
  • Well, let’s see. Hillary Clinton makes a factual point. The geographic parts of the United States that voted for her tend to be those doing better, a whole lot better, than those that supported Donald Trump. Her point? Voters who support policies that are optimistic, diverse, dynamic, moving forward, are more likely to support her, and that those policies are more likely to be successful.
     
    The conservative Weekly Standard attacks. She is just like the late founder of libertarian philosophy Ayn Rand, both believing that an individual’s economic success is the measure of that person’s moral worth. Sigh.
     
    Libertarian Michael A. LaFerrara objects. But only because the distortion is an insult to Ayn Rand.
     
  • M. Bouffant at Web of Evil remembers the origin of a very new hallucinogen called LSD.
     
  • The Journal of Improbable Research finds research by the Sociology Department of the University of Georgia into how to commit the perfect murder. Turns out it is very, very difficult. You’ll want to read the beginner’s guide first.
     
  • John Scalzi at Whatever reminds envious folk like me that some writers can make anything interesting. Anything at all. In this case, Mr. Scalzi buys a shirt.
     
  • This week’s note in Trumpian ‘Alternative Facts’ comes from Splinter News where Kellyanne Conway starts by accusing James Comey of characteristics rational folk would see as describing Donald Trump, but then loses her mind and accuses Comey of what Trump and pretty much all his supporters deny: that without Comey’s interference in 2016, Trump would have lost