- This week’s note in Trumpian ‘Alternative Facts’ comes from The Economist with a warning to Europe that the American President’s penchant for racebaiting and disregard for truth are finding their way into the continent as politicians react to refugees.
- Max’s Dad, one of the best ranters around, takes on my President’s Euro-tour.
- Our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit looks for a pattern and finds it. When it comes to friendship with my President, it’s better to be Trump’s adversary.
- An unfortunate health note comes to us from the Borowitz Report. Queen Elizabeth will be unable to meet with the visiting American President because of a flare up of her Vietnam era bone spurs.
- Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger reports the results as 2002 randomly selected Americans are asked to name the best President in their lifetimes. Trump loyalists, notes McLaughlin, might not like the totals.
- The ever insightful Charlie Pierce is fed up, damning to Hell those who either promoted or allowed our current national tragedy, describing them by category. driftglass counts the damns and comes up with Glenn Greenwald.
- M. Bouffant at Web of Evil seems to think that Mueller’s witchhunt is targeting real witches.
- Sadly, my long-time friend T. Paine, at Saving Common Sense, will be leaving us in September. This week he explains why he likes Robert Mueller, dislikes President Trump, but still respects my President. Seems we on the left have been enraged to learn that Trump wasn’t the typical politician. I dunno. Depends on a definition, I suppose. If non-typical includes caging little kids when their parents apply for asylum, he could be right. Now then, what is his definition of respect?
- Glenn Geist at MadMikesAmerica suggests that even FBI investigators are allowed to have private opinions. Something about freedom of thought.
- PZ Myers watches as Republicans attack an FBI agent for thinking bad thoughts about Donald Trump and expressing those thoughts in private to his girlfriend.
- Wisconsin conservative James Wigderson views with skepicism Senator Tammy Baldwin’s opposition to Brett Kavanaugh, Donald Trump’s nominee to the United States Supreme Court.
- Dave Dubya asserts the extreme opinion that American democracy is about to blink out. He defends this with … you know … facts and measurements. Isn’t evidence … fake news?
- The ever eloquent nojo at Stinque takes a penetrating look at how conservatives have dominated the Hypocrisy Game and suggests a simple strategy to counter it.
- Yellow Dog at Blue in the Bluegrass describes harshly, but accurately, moves by the Governor of Kentucky to take medical care from 460,000 residents who cannot otherwise afford it.
- Infidel753 attacks Islam as inherently evil, defends Muslims from discrimination, and explains the lack of contradiction.
- Libertarian Michael A. LaFerrara disagrees with a GOP candidate who dismisses diversity as “crap.” Diversity is misunderstood because meaningful human diversity of uniquely individual attributes is brushed off by the Left as irrelevant. All these years I’ve gotten it wrong. I can only hope my leftist membership card doesn’t get cancelled for failing to smother individual diversity under a tribal agenda.
- In The Life and Times of Bruce Gerencser, former pastor, current atheist, Bruce explains and defends his understanding of morality.
- So the CEO of Papa John’s restaurants has resigned after using racial epithets. The Onion reports on additional racial progress as the new CEO removes the N-word from Papa John’s menus. Okay, I do understand satire.
Really, I do.
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