- At The Moderate Voice Retired U.S. Air Force Officer Dorian de Wind notes the murder of Holocaust survivor Boris Romantschenko by Vlad Putin’s deliberate targeting of civilians. Vladimir insisted the invasion was to “denazify”, and manages to accomplish what even Hitler couldn’t.
- In Scotties Playtime, an aging US army veteran reacts as a little Ukrainian girl is shot in the face by one of Putin’s soldiers.
- Our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit counts the ways. If a Putin atrocity, an attack on a hospital, or patients, or newborn babies, happens once or twice, someone somewhere might see it as accidental. But thirty four such Putin accidents? Even Fox might want to revise their pro-Putin tilt.
- So the world knows of the remarkable history of Volodymyr Zelensky, a television comedian who became President of Ukraine then transformed into a leader inspiring the world. Nojo looks at the quality, social insight, and political knowledge involved in the original TV satire, and tells us we should not have been surprised after all.
- Frances Langum has the story. Sean Hannity borrows what he calls a great idea from Senator Rand Paul, a Republican representing Putin. Hannity wants us to hold up emergency war aid until and unless Ukraine comes up with a plan to pay for it.
- Ant Farmer’s Almanac has Tucker invited to embed with the Troops. Guess which troops.
- CalicoJack in The Psy of Life looks at the worldwide swing from authoritarianism to democracy and suggests conservatives might find cause to worry.
- Infidel753 counts the ways Putin’s war has been a disaster for Russia. After the many failures of the invasion, Putin seems to have declared war on his own intelligence service.
- The Palmer Report finds hope in the words of a Russian whistleblower who says Russia’s FSB is in an uproar over Putin disasters. Is there a possibility that Putin might be overthrown by his own intelligence organization?
- A rumored conspirator against Putin suddenly disappears and Julian Sanchez of the Cato Institute seems skeptical about the official story put out by the Russian Ministry of Fair and Balanced news:
Being stabbed in the chest does TECHNICALLY count as “suffering a heart attack”… https://t.co/4FELSiwxSj
— Julian Sanchez (@normative) March 25, 2022
- PZ Myers finds a point by point charted comparison between Ketanji Brown Jackson and the previous two nominees to the Supreme Court. Then he looks at the quality of the questions posed to her by the Judiciary interrogators.
- Vixen Strangely at Strangely Blogged looks on as conservative activist Charlie Kirk takes a break from defending Putin’s invasion as a border dispute and speaks out loud what Republican attack dogs on the Judiciary Committee dare not even whisper.
You see, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, who has an exemplary legal background, is actually an unqualified affirmative action pick for the Supreme Court. Just like another black woman with a shining law enforcement background was an unqualified affirmative action pick for Vice President.
Charlie himself is a college dropout, but he does have a High School education.
Republicans on television have more legitimate issues to discuss:
How often does the nominee go to church?
As a small child, did she actually read and like an adult book she saw on a family coffee table?
Does she have a hidden, never expressed, not yet acted upon agenda about enforcing racial guilt on impressionable youngsters in schools?
- In Letters from an American, noted historian Heather Cox Richardson puts Republican judicial philosophy under review beginning with Senator Mike Braun accidentally revealing that the legality of interracial marriage should be left to the states.
- Max’s Dad sees the hearing as a long running temper tantrum by fading white men losing a grip on reality and common sense.
- Legal expert Imani Gandy and Executive Editor Jessica Mason Pieklo in their excellent Rewire News Group podcast series are there for Senator Cory Booker’s righteous defense of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson.
- Andy Borowitz reports as Republicans accuse Judge Jackson of being chosen by Biden.
- At The Onion Senate Republicans attack Judge Jackson’s lack of experience as a serving Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. Since she’s never been on the court, how can she be regarded as qualified?
- There is growing evidence in the form of text messages that the spouse of a Supreme Court Justice played an active role in the January 6 attempt to overthrow the United States. News Corpse watches the reaction on Fox News. It doesn’t take long, because Fox has no coverage of the story. Not even a mention.
- North Carolina pastor John Pavlovitz sees a deeper tragedy within COVID:
I never hear MAGAs mourning at all over the nearly 1 million people we've lost since 2020. Not a hint of grief, sadness, or empathy since day one. That is who they are and it is the man and movement they have embraced. That is the tragedy. https://t.co/3oXrDnBqiv
— John Pavlovitz (@johnpavlovitz) March 26, 2022
- Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger has the figures. There is a difference in the death rate from COVID between red and blue states.
- Tommy Christopher reports as President Biden goes abroad for a NATO meeting about Putin aggression. He is asked about the next Presidential election.
No kidding.
So he gets frank about one likely opponent. Seems Biden will be one lucky President if Donald Trump runs for President.
- driftglass turns out to be pretty good with analogy. Here’s one involving political parties, apple juice, and voting decisions.
- Hackwhackers comes here to Missouri to find an example of Republican moral rectitude. The main Republican candidate for the US Senate this year is former governor Eric Greitens, who was indicted for kidnapping, and taking nude photos of, his hairstylist. Now his ex-wife is going public with allegations of abuse toward her.
But he seems like a nice fellow.
- Wisconsin conservative James Wigderson has a complaint about how President Biden is treating James’ fellow conservative Dr. Mehmet Oz.
When people ask me what I mean by saying that all Biden had to do was be competent, I mean things like this. Seriously, this email wasn't sent in February 2021? It took this long to fire the Wizard of Oz? https://t.co/nfe1t5TLYw
— James Wigderson (@jwigderson) March 24, 2022
- Libertarian Michael A. LaFerrara doesn’t like the idea of racial reparations or even the idea of studying the idea of reparations. In particular, he is opposed to a central thesis of reparations, that slavery was a viable system of economics laying much of the early economic foundation of the nation. It was NOT a viable economic system, says our rigidly libertarian blogger.
It’s a tough argument to make, since slavery proved profitable enough to provoke slave owners into war to preserve it. But Michael insists it was bad for the country itself.
I would have thought it an especially unusual argument for a libertarian, since it parallels an argument he rejects: that anti-environmental practices benefiting individual investors do horrible things to the earth’s environment.
Horrible enough to threaten human survival.
Horrible enough to require regulation.
- M. Bouffant at Web of Evil reads about a lawsuit against TikTok. A former employee claims emotional damage from having to monitor videos of child exploitation, abuse, and even murder. M. Bouffant asks an obvious question.
- tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors points to the current debate in the Republican party about whether abortion should be punished by putting teenage girls and women to death.
- In Nan’s Notebook, Nan asks whether atheists, during times of desperation, might temporarily turn to God in prayer.
I dunno. I am a committed Christian. But most stories I have read about famous folks and deathbed conversions have turned out to be bogus.
- In The Life and Times of Bruce Gerencser, an evangelical Christian has Bruce’s number. Bruce turns out to be a judgmental know-it-all with a noticible lack of humility. Bruce responds with exceptional kindness for someone with such character flaws.
- More life lessons from Reductress, who will advise you on how to hear about natural disasters on the news without getting “landslide” stuck in your head.
- SilverAppleQueen goes poetic, taking a train to the ocean for water and love and meaning.
- Sarah Cooper knows how to succeed in business by appearing smart:
It’s a good day to share an objective opinion pic.twitter.com/I4LzJahCnF
— Sarah Cooper (@sarahcpr) March 23, 2022
- John Scalzi at Whatever has a new chair that is so magnificently ugly it’s beautiful. My opinion. See if you agree.
- @momwino98 wonders:
@whiskeywhistle98 I have no idea!! #tiktokmom #trending #WomenOwnedBusiness #DeserveADrPepperDuet #fyp #foryourpage ♬ Reading Rainbow Theme Song – Reading Rainbow - The Journal of Improbable Research finds a University study from Australia on comparative strategies for parallel parking.
- YellowDog Granny confesses to just two faults.
A few tweets I thought worthy:
I was robbed at a gas station in NJ last night. After my hands stopped trembling..I managed to call the cops and they were quick to respond and calmed me down….. My money is gone.. the police asked me if I knew who did it..I said yes.. it was pump number 9…
— ICE T (@FINALLEVEL) March 24, 2022
I'm a stage 4 cancer survivor and the Affordable Care Act saved my life. Now we must fight to expand it. #ACAHereToStay pic.twitter.com/9mLVvub3ka
— Laura Packard (@lpackard) March 23, 2022
🤣🤦🏻♀️ pic.twitter.com/jxE7HVMY4a
— shan 💎🙌🏼 (@Oshan702) March 23, 2022
So if I’m reading this right; a Ukrainian dude w/ russian citizenship who offered money to street criminals to spray paint swastikas was also at Trump’s inauguration. Oh and it set off alarm bells among law enforcement AT THE TIME. https://t.co/XP4CK3VptF
— The FED Pirate Roberts 🇺🇦 (@BonessWF) March 24, 2022
Who did this? pic.twitter.com/n2qIUiEZ6w
— Nurses Against Dick Pics. 🇺🇦 (@ClaudetteGGibs1) March 23, 2022
I'd rather hear someone stutter with empathy than speak clearly with malice.
— somepeoplelikeit (@sumpeoplelikeit) March 21, 2022
Josh Hawley voted against sending aid to Ukraine but is now telling digital FOX that Biden isn't sending enough military equipment.
That's a lot of BS.— Brown Eyed Susan🇺🇦 (@smc429) March 20, 2022
No lies detected from Stephen Colbert 👇👇🔥👇🔥 pic.twitter.com/umc5fjHtW8
— Henry Djoutsa 🇨🇲🇺🇸 Supports🇺🇦 (@D_jeneration) March 19, 2022
The Russian Embassy in Lisbon. Two neighbouring houses are projecting the blue and yellow onto its facade. The ambassador is reportedly “apoplectic”. pic.twitter.com/KHR2ANYbhh
— Roger Hutchinson (@RogerMiles) March 11, 2022
And I’m allowed a few of my own:
SO –
"National Review Editor Outraged Trump Wasn’t Made President Of Earth on Star Trek But Stacey Abrams Was, How Is That Even Fair?"I'd like Jack Butler to hear this, because I only want to say it once:
(whispering) Star Trek is a work of fiction.https://t.co/gyoC4kSMQe
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) March 26, 2022
I'd kind of like the remaining documents back first. https://t.co/z9K8yIvNOp
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) March 24, 2022
"What can you say about the rules of engagement of a force where painting the word 'children' next to a building in the hopes that a bombing would be passed over makes that building a target?" https://t.co/37Ak3WyKJo
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) March 20, 2022
– Podcasts –
Sadly, Mr. Widgerson sounds so very much like a perfectly typical Republican:
“We spent the last (4,8) years breaking everything we could lay our hands on, and stealing all the tools to fix things. Why hasn’t the new Democratic Administration fixed everything in the first week! They’re incompetent!”
Also Dr Oz was merely a mildly harmful somewhat widely popular TV quack until he decided to parachute into the Pennsylvania Senate race, carpetbag and checkbook in hand and went full MAGA.
This is precisely why we should never, ever, turn our backs on our new Never-Trumper allies.