- This week’s note in Trumpian “Alternative Facts” comes from CNN where Rudy Giuliani explains to Chris Cuomo that all facts are only opinions.
- Our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit watches as Admiral William McRaven scorches the petty Trump move to revoke the security clearance of John Brennan for daring to criticize the President, and is reminded of the Tony Curtis role in an old Kirk Douglas movie based on an anti-Roman slave rebellion. You’ve read this in a dozen places so far, right?
- tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors explains just how revoking the security clearance of someone with enormous security experience makes Putin a winner along with any other enemy of America.
- Jonathan Bernstein argues that Trump is entering a a dangerous phase that could cost him …well… hugely.
- M. Bouffant at Web of Evil reads about a conservative proposal to consider making the n-word publicly acceptable.
- Wisconsin conservative James Wigderson likes the idea of selling old school buildings to charter schools. Well, kind of. He likes an editorial that criticizes Milwaukee for not doing it. Plus minus minus might equal plus.
- In one Georgia county, Republican election officials plan to continue a pattern that is currently repeated throughout much of the south, closing more than 75% of polling stations in predominantly black areas.
- Max’s Dad watched BlackkKlansman and says it will end up as best picture of the year.
- At The Moderate Voice, Leah Kardos reviews the origins and musical development of Aretha Franklin, and her effect on us.
- In a piece of deeply personal analysis, nojo at Stinque explains how stories are an intrinsic part of the human experience.
- Infidel753 explores how differences in language influence the way we experience the world. Turns out they pretty much don’t. Another good sounding theory turns out to be a hoax. Kind of like Supply Side.
- The Journal of Improbable Research finds a few studies on how to break spaghetti into two, and only two, pieces. One applies the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle.
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