- Vixen Strangely at Strangely Blogged, expresses in poignant photos a goodbye to a remarkable President.
- nojo at Stinque greets the new President with thoughts from Vishnu.
- Jonathan Bernstein, writing for BloombergView, is less than impressed with President Trump’s Inaugural Address, describing it as nothing more than recycled campaign rhetoric.
- Infidel753 reviews the takeover of America by a Republican Minority Rule Regime, reminding us that President Trump won a selection, not an election.
- tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors has a personal plan, for the Trump years, of survival and triumph. All things considered, I’m for both those goals.
- At Vagabond Scholar, Batocchio reacts to attacks by our new President on heroic civil rights activist John Lewis with lessons from Martin Luther King.
- Iron Knee at Political Irony finds irony in Donald Trump’s objections to Saturday Night Live.
- At the urging of Political Irony, I paid a visit to Margaret and Helen, who are proud to have been “Best Friends for Sixty Years and Counting.” I’ll have to take the journey more often. Seems that, in her words, “because I think Trump and his supporters are morons,” someone called Helen an elitist. So she looked it up.
- Tommy Christopher, at Shareblue, finds an excellent summary of the treatment by corporate media of Hillary Clinton in snickering by CNN personnel accidentally caught on a hot mic.
- driftglass takes on those who reflexively think both sides do it, it being pretty much any atrocity. This time he vivisects, then slices and dices, then chops into mincemeat, then puts into a blender the cult of bothsiderism.
- The Journal of Improbable Research attends a presentation of research on how to recognize (as Rachel Maddow would put it) bull-pucky. It is based on a scientific study entitled On the Reception and Detection of Pseudo-Profound Bullshit.
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Thanks for the links as always — I think there may be an error in mine, though.
Quite Right. Our apologies, and thank you for pointing out the error.
I’m hoping we can blame it on Aunt Tildy.
The link is now correct.
You know that we’re in a bad state when “bothsiderism” is so advanced that many people can’t see a meaningful difference between Trump and other politicians, whether Democrat or Republican.
“Bothsiderism” definitely serves Republicans well, even if only to convince people that politicians are evil, that government is no good accordingly, and that “outsiders” like Trump are therefore the only solution.