- This week’s note in Trumpian ‘Alternative Facts’ comes from the Einstein estate’s official Twitter account, calling out Ivanka Trump for quoting Albert Einstein as saying pretty much the opposite of what he really said.
- Jonathan Bernstein tick-tock’s the demise of an unwanted, unloved health-care bill.
- Tommy Christopher explains that, in killing Trumpcare, Americans did not win a victory as much as survive an assault. And he names the real deciding vote.
- Jack Jodell at The Saturday Afternoon Post suggests that it really is time to radically alter US health care.
- Green Eagle anticipates how President Trump will defend the crimes Muellers investigation is uncovering.
- Anthony Scaramucci presented family newspapers and other media outlet with a dilemma. How were they to report his creative profanity to their audiences? Print and broadcast news media do not traditionally present, except obliquely, expressions describing difficult sexual acts generally thought to be anatomically improbable. (Hey Media! See how I did that?)
M. Bouffant at Web of Evil provides Erick Erickson’s list of the President’s evangelical leaders team members who objected to Scaramucci’s language. The length of the list is surprising. Um… Aunt Tildy seems to have followed the link. Soooo…. we offer our obligatory warning. Children who click through are cautioned to cover their ears.
- Here is what Michael Kinsley heard when he asked people to say something nice about Donald Trump.
- Andy Borowitz reports that the Girl Scouts of the U.S.A. have gotten a restraining order against Trump.
- The Onion follows up on a man who, after swearing that nothing more could surprise him, found himself shocked 8 times in one day by the Trump administration.
- Dave Dubya doesn’t seem to approve of my President’s call for police to rough up suspects.
- At The Intersection of Madness and Reality, Rippa predicts what will happen to black police officer who recently killed a white woman.
- The Moderate Voice tells us about an immigrant who joined the Marines and went to Iraq. He was shot and mortally wounded. While dying this hero pulled a grenade under himself to save fellow Marines. He was nearly approved for the highest award for valor until blocked by the Bush administration for mysterious reasons. The story has a bitter-sweet ending.
- Michael John Scott explains Kim Jung-il’s “great satisfaction” at the test of an ICBM that can hit the US mainland.
- Yellow Dog at Blue in the Bluegrass finds a hero in Kentucky in the person of Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes who fights against voter suppression.
- At The Swash Zone (O)CT(O)PUS draws conclusions about American life and America’s future from rancid online exchanges between those in favor of federal voter suppression.
- The Journal of Improbable Research has found a study on how to use fossilized dinosaur poop to repair sheep bones.
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