Gosh Racism Exists, Farmers Nailed, Anti-Abortion Death Penalty

  • This week’s note in Trumpian ‘Alternative Facts’ comes from Slate as Dahlia Lithwick discovers a venue in which Trump distortions of reality don’t seem to work.
     
  • Let’s not forget Stacey Abrams of Georgia who came within a hair of becoming the first black woman Governor of a southern state. She lost only because of a vigorous anti-voter suppression campaign that did not stop at any pretext short of murder. Infidel753 bring us the most inspirational non-concession speech in American history. Constructive defiance.
     
  • It is Trump, but not just Trump. At The Moderate Voice, David Robertson finds a prominent conservative who not only acknowledges that racism exists, but recognizes it as a conservative problem conservatives should confront.
     
  • Andy Borowitz reports as President Trump refuses to pardon the White House turkey, accusing it of spying for billionaire George Soros.
     
  • tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors carries a summary. President Trump’s trade war has cut off China from American soybeans. So American farmers are selling to South American countries at estate-sale-everything-must-go discounts. And those countries are using those new imports to replace the crops they would have been using domestically. You see, their own soybeans are not available because they are all being shipped to China. So Chinese consumers are happy. South American farmers are happy. US farmers are pretty much screwed. My president promised a bailout but now the election is over. The bailout is being slow walked. Well, slow-crawled, actually. Did I mention what is being done to US farmers?
     
  • MadMikesAmerica brings news of a Republican anti-abortion bill in Ohio that, if strictly followed, could bring the death penalty to women who obtain abortions.
     
  • Libertarian Michael A. LaFerrara argues that the 2008 economic meltdown was actually caused by too much government regulation. Seems a bit counter-intuitive. Perhaps more than a bit counter-factual? You know. Kind of completely wrong.
     
  • PZ Myers argues that scientific skepticism is often at its best when it is directed at science, and applies that insight to genetics. Shortened message is that good science is a perpetual search for better science.
     
  • The deadly incident was around the corner from where I had worked until our office was recently moved. A maniac terrorized three women then killed one as she refused to give in, at gunpoint, to his sexual demands. Turns out he is well known south of St. Louis as an anti-gun regulation activist and the former pastor of an evangelical Christian church.