Jack Back, 1st Never-Trumper, 50 min Call, War & Oil, Sondland Sings

Donald Trump, Jr on Book Tour

  • Frances Langum sometimes bravely takes on the painful assignment of Fox-watching. This week, she provides to us the highlights of Trump’s wacky 50 minute call to the curved sofa sitters (the sofa is curved, not the sitters – who are merely slanted).
     
  • So Donald Trump Junior wrote a book that is number ONE on the NY Times best-seller list. Uh-oh, turns out it is because the Republican Party invested $100,000 to buy up a as many excess copies as they could afford. nojo sees the little dagger the list puts next to the listing, and looks through our politics for other little daggers that we tend to overlook.
     
  • A Christian activist tells followers that opposition to White Supremacy is an attack on Christianity itself. Mark Bear at MadMikesAmerica is a Christian who is more than a little irritated at this religious perversion.
     
  • Our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit winces (or whatever is the print equivalent) as a television reporter parallels new candidate Michael Bloomberg with Hubert Humphrey. After all, HHH won the Democratic nomination in 1968 despite skipping early primaries. Earth-Bound Misfit takes that down brick by remarkably facile brick.
     
  • If you sort of read between the lines, M. Bouffant at Web of Evil sometimes gives the impression that he doesn’t much care for Bill Gates.
     
  • We were all wrong. Turns out war is never all about oil. Libertarian Michael A. LaFerrara says the root cause of war, the root of most problems, is statism. Governments would not fight over oil if there was no government. Reminds me of the traditional NRA position, perhaps with a new twist.
    Guns don’t kill people. People kill people.
    Yes, we can end rampant gun violence.
    Don’t regulate guns. Eliminate people.
     
  • Infidel753 has gathered some amazing fantasy photos. Even the ones that are not photo-like are phenomenal in the creativity involved.
     
  • tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors invites us to celebrate a return of born-again freedom as Jim Baker remembers those recent dark days when it was illegal to say “Merry Christmas”.
     
  • The Journal of Improbable Research finds research that suggests a relationship between crime rates and pollen count. Apparently, more sneezing decreases lawlessness.
     
  • North Carolina pastor John Pavlovitz urges us to falling-on-knees gratitude as our children come home after school. We’re losing the ability to be horrified when other children never come home.
     

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