- This week’s note in Trumpian ‘Alternative Facts’ comes from CNN where Stephen Collinson suggests that the most disturbing fact about the most recent Trump lies is that the nation is too numb to be disturbed.
- Jon Perr at PERRspectives looks to the nearly inevitable next step after my President’s impetuous breaking of the anti-nuclear agreement with Iran.
- Frances Langum examines Trump Chief-of-Staff John Kelly’s latest stereotype of immigrants. One problem: too many are country, and country isn’t cool. At least some, we assume, are good people.
- @bjork55 at Bjork Report explains the hush money Trump must be trying to funnel if he’s smart enough to think of it.
- Jack Jodell at The Saturday Afternoon Post REALLY doesn’t like Rudy and relays what a psychologist friend explains makes him a lot like Donald. Well, okay then.
- Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger illustrates the approach taken by Congressional Republicans as the House Freedom Caucus visits the Justice Department.
- Our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit notices a seeming inconsistency in how much conservatives care about deficits.
- Vixen Strangely at Strangely Blogged reacts to Ollie, an actual illegal arms dealer, leading the NRA.
- North Carolina pastor John Pavlovitz has helpful advice for people of color who might want to help frightened white folks. I confess to a suspicion: the good pastor may be writing with a bit of sarcasm.
- In The Life and Times of Bruce Gerencser, an ex-Christian objects to how we of the faith treat children of divorced parents.
- Infidel753 turns in a book review of science author Steven Pinker’s defense of science-based humanism. Pinker argues that the trajectory of the human condition over recent history has been generally upward because of science and reason.
- Vincent at A Wayfarer’s Notes, who has been afflicted by dangerously ill health, endeavors to document a rich and varied life.