Iron Beam, Ukraine, War Humor, Putin, DeSantis v Mickey v Math, Debates

  • Andy Borowitz reports as DeSantis warns that math makes children gay.
     
  • Green Eagle declines to add his definition to all the opinions of what comprises fascism but can see a couple of characteristics history can reveal.
     
  • Dave Dubya likes political debates between actual candidates. So do I. I especially like the rare clashes about actual policy ideas. Dave sees a pattern as Republicans indignantly reject the idea of future Presidential debates. Seems debates are unfair.
     
  • driftglass has a few direct quotes about a recent ex-President by a couple of current Republican legislative leaders.
     
  • Kevin McCarthy has gone all Schrödinger, having wanted Trump to resign over the insurrection, then not wanting any such thing, then never ever having wanted any such thing, then trying to explain recordings showing that he wanted exactly that. Quite an embarrassment. News Corpse takes a look at national coverage of the pretzel reality that has become poor Kevin, and notices one network that is not the same as all the others.
     
  • In Letters from an American, historian Heather Cox Richardson chronicles the disjointed week for Republican public officials, with attacks on Disney cartoon characters, banning of math books, photos of Mr Madison Cawthorne in lingerie and jewelry (emphasis on Mr), winding up Friday with yesterday’s weird testimony from Ms Greene.
     
  • When I first came across it, I was a little annoyed. It was obviously a crude, unimaginative photoshop effort. But no stun is stunning enough these days.
     
    tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors brings us the genuine, for real, actual photos of Republican bad boy, poster child for conservative party animal hypocrisy, Madison Cawthorn: all decked out in women’s underwear. Not a photoshop at all.
     
  • Okay. Basic population stats. If you take every resident of every country in North America, South America, Central America, and put them into Mexico and get all of them to cross into the US, every man woman and child, you could get a billion immigrants. Vixen Strangely at Strangely Blogged, takes a look at one of the nuttier wingnut claims.
     
  • The Palmer Report explores the seemingly endless agony of the fearful, cowering Kevin McCarthy, surrounded as he is by Republican sharks. His strategy seems to be to genuflect in all directions.
     
    I dunno.
     
    Seems to me that when you see sharks circling around you in every direction, the best strategy might not be to bleed.
     
  • M. Bouffant at Web of Evil watches the testimony as Marjorie Taylor Greene mimics a character from an old television series while completely forgetting any documented public statements she may have made advocating violence against Democrats.
     
  • Wisconsin conservative James Wigderson listens to Ms Greene’s sudden memory lapses and goes all Peter Gabriel on her:

  • Not all Republican inspired voting restrictions are aimed at racial minorities. Scotties Playtime has the videos. Plural. Some folks want only adult males to vote. And some want only men who are sufficiently masculine.
     
  • CalicoJack in The Psy of Life takes a look at mask related incidents in relation to the psychological, behavioral, and social concept of moral injury.
     
  • Something you don’t see every day. PZ Myers has the story of the arrest of an anti-LGBTQ terrorist for threatening to murder a dictionary.
     
  • Last weekend, Grung e Gene saw America celebrate Easter with a series of mass shootings.
     
  • I like reading most anything written by libertarian Michael A. LaFerrara, if only for the reminder that most anything can be proven if it is first accepted as a hard premise.
     
    Take, for example, the premise that any government regulation is evil because it leads to the abolition of human freedom.
    Simple enough.
     
    If a serious problem is posed the only answer to which is government regulation, the problem itself must be a fiction. Or the serious nature of the problem must be a fiction. Or workable regulation is a fiction. Or something!
     
    And so it is with global warming.
     
    Since Mr. LaFerrara insists, as an unassailable premise, that government regulation is evil, global warming must be a fiction. Or, at least it cannot be as serious as environmentalists say it is. Or it is not caused by human activity. So regulation cannot be a solution.
     
    This does leave a few questions. For example:
     
    Why do the overwhelming majority of scientists say that global warming is a threat to human existence?
     
    Why do they point to the human use of fossil fuel as the primary cause?
     
    Libertarians most often suggest that mainstream science is the captive of environmental activism. Scientists are either part of an overarching conspiracy, or they are individually intimidated by rabid extremists.
     
    Since no economic benefit to environmentalists is apparent, what could possibly motivate these activists?
     
    Mr. LaFerrara reveals the knowledge that the conspirators do not want us to know. They are all cultists. They see nature as having intrinsic value over human well being.
     
    They want to take us all back to the stone age, the natural condition of our animal species. He has even scoured the internet for stray quotes, which he presents as representative of scientists, regulators, and advocates for …say… electric vehicles or solar panels.
     
    That is why I like most anything by Michael A. LaFerrara.
    If you start with an unquestioned premise, you can prove to yourself an amazing amount of hidden knowledge as yet unrevealed to the rest of us ordinary mortals.
     
  • Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger charts, state by state, temperature change since the first Earth Day in 1970.
     
  • In MadMikesAmerica, Michael John Scott explains why septic tanks and a host of other systems with a long history of reliability are now failing.
     
  • Prosecutors in Texas finally dropped murder charges against that lonely woman after she was arrested and accused of a self-induced miscarriage.
     
    Imani Gandy and Jessica Mason Pieklo of Rewire News Group discuss in podcast the criminalization of pregnancy and outcomes, and the issues involved in the State of Texas against Lizelle Herrera.
     
  • When we say we believe in God, Nan wants us to be specific. Who, exactly, is God?
     
  • In The Life and Times of Bruce Gerencser, Bruce quotes a Christian author who insists that God must be real because humans are hardwired to believe.
     
    I confess it does remind me of how the late Isaac Bashevis Singer summarized what was once a raging religious debate about pre-destination vs free will.
     
    We have to believe in free will.
    We’ve got no choice.
     
  • It was Easter, and @whiskeywhistle98 just couldn’t find the words
    @whiskeywhistle98 #stitch with @alliewheelz ahhh…#easter #tiktokmom #trend #PassTheBIC #dirty #sweetjesus #fyp #foryourpage ♬ original sound – @Whiskeywhistle98-

  • Reductress brings disappointing news as a member of a cult deliberately misuses therapy language to get out of being a ritual sacrifice.
     
  • If you’ve been thinking about podcasting, you may want to glance through Happiness Between Tails. da-AL has some promotion tips for podcasts.
     
  • SilverAppleQueen goes sadly, beautifully, poetic at a broken marriage.
     
  • The Onion explains what not to say to someone having a panic attack.
     
  • YellowDog Granny provides a gardening tip.
     
A few tweets I thought worthy:

And I’m allowed a few of my own:


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3 thoughts on “Iron Beam, Ukraine, War Humor, Putin, DeSantis v Mickey v Math, Debates”

  2. They want to take us all back to the stone age, the natural condition of our animal species. He has even scoured the internet for stray quotes, which he presents as representative of scientists, regulators, and advocates for …say… electric vehicles or solar panels.

    Obviously, yes, what those people are advocating is the path back to the stone age. Primitive, stone-age neanderthals made extensive use of solar panels, and electric vehicles are commonly found at their grave sites. They also have exhaustive government regulations of their crude spears and stone tools. So obviously these advocates want us to be like them.

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