- Jack Jodell at The Saturday Afternoon Post counts the abundance of Democratic candidates and demands that we, as voters, do our civic duty and research each one. Or at least listen to town halls.
- Libertarian Michael A. LaFerrara makes the case that the reasons many of us want open information about election funding (untraceable dark money, transparency) are actually “hollow catchphrases meant to equate free speech to some sinister underworld.” I’m so ashamed. How could we promote such distortions?
- At The Moderate Voice, Robert Levine says we don’t know for sure whether Putin has kompromat on my President. But we know for sure that Trump feels he owes, really owes, Putin. And we know that Putin has Trump in a subservient position.
- Iron Knee at Political Irony has come across a way to impeach my President without stumbling into the disadvantages Democrats anticipate.
- Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger discovers outspoken opposition to Trumpism from a surprising source. It comes from a while before he became President, in fact 19 centuries and 75 years before.
- The Onion has satiric highlights of President Trump’s visit to the U.K.
- Frances Langum settled in to watch Fox News solemnly covering ceremonies at a Normandy cemetery for thousands of soldiers who died on the beaches on D-Day in 1944. The solemn coverage took a bit of a turn as the Fox team attacked Democrats for talking on camera with kids, and laughed about liberal restaurants neglecting to use the phrase ladies and gentlemen, all against a background of nearly 10,000 D-Day grave markers. You’d think this would be a sure thing for the Most-Tasteless-of-the-Year award, but Fox keeps rolling and the year ain’t over yet.
- The Fox News team are not the only ones to use D-Day as a backdrop. Tommy Christopher listens to Rush Limbaugh as he tries “putting D-Day in perspective” by attacking immigrants as an invasion force.
- There was another anniversary this week. Folks my age might remember the unarmed young man, standing alone, who faced down a column of Chinese tanks. Thirty years later, our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit commemorates the massacre of student demonstrators at Tiananmen Square. You’ll never guess who is on record saying the killing of those kids was a good idea.
- tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors reports as a constituent of a Florida state representative quotes the Bible and proposes putting homosexuals to death. The representative chuckles at the hilarious vision of killing gay people. He does apologize, although not in a way you might expect.
- Several Republican controlled states are so severely restricting abortion rights, even anti-abortion activists are a little hesitant about it. But elections do have consequences. driftglass peers into the darkness and sees bright lights as other states are protecting women’s rights and conservatives are freaking out.
- It’s time to ask an avowed atheist if he has ever experienced a miracle. In The Life and Times of Bruce Gerencser, atheist Bruce deals with the question gently, in careful detail.
We religious folk seem especially vulnerable to the temptation of arrogance. I like Bruce and I have considered his arguments. I have confronted similar logic with what I hope is clear respect. It isn’t that hard. For one thing, I do not attempt to rebut what seems beyond refutation.
- At MadMikesAmerica, Michael John Scott hears that Apple is about to kill off iTunes and launches a celebration.
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