- This week’s note in Trump ‘Alternative Facts’ comes from the Baltimore Sun as my President blames the independently revised death toll in post-hurricane Puerto Rico on a liberal conspiracy.
- tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors notes one television personality who agrees with my President that the tragic number of dead in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria is only a plot by Democrats trying to make his performance as president appear to have been less than exemplary.
- Author John Scalzi urges those in the path of Florence to take precautions, since “if you drown, Trump will probably say that you did it just to make him look bad.”
- North Carolina pastor John Pavlovitz sees many in the path of Hurricane Florence refusing to evacuate because they fear the Trump administration’s cruelty in weaponizing once trusted immigration agencies.
- Libertarian Michael A. LaFerrara has an opinion about efforts by Facebook to ban fake accounts and to fact check news items with notifications about verifiably false information. He’s against both.
- M. Bouffant at Web of Evil has an example of verifiably false news and, when it is not accompanied by any fact check warning, the sort of tragedy that can result.
- Jack Jodell at The Saturday Afternoon Post fact checks information, in part by checking sources. He provides several that he considers reliable, including liberals, conservatives, and those between.
- Reacting to the now famous NY Times anonymous editorial, Jonathan Bernstein argues that thwarting Trump from within the administration is not anti-democratic.
- nojo at Stinque carefully considers the heroic anonymous op-ed writer and concludes that there is no hero in that administration and that America’s best hope is to get rid of them all.
- Tommy Christopher is impressed as former CIA officer Evan McMullin sandblasts Trump sycophant Rep. Devin Nunes and endorses his election opponent.
- Green Eagle walks through ever increasing complexity of celestial planetary charts of epicycles within epicycles prior to the development by Copernicus of a much simpler sun-based view of the solar system, then applies all that to Trump voters. An entertaining education.
- The Journal of Improbable Research covers a study of a sample composed of 440 scientific researchers and finds that the highest quality of work comes from those who smile most.
- Wisconsin conservative James Wigderson writes about efforts by his one-time high school in preparing students for life. He comments that the school seems to be doing a better job of preparing students for prison and gets a lot of blowback over it. So he writes about those damn liberals who can’t seem to get the point.
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