- This week’s note in Trumpian ‘Alternative Facts’ comes from the Sierra Club, in a suit filed to force the Department of Energy to release a suppressed expert study on fossil fuels and our electric grid. The suspicion is that Secretary Rick Perry wants to rewrite the report to resurrect discredited theories about energy stability.
- Jack Jodell at The Saturday Afternoon Post points out the Pledge of Allegience was authored by a leftist and suggests that patriotism has been hijacked and distorted by the right.
- @bjork55 at Bjork Report reports on why leaders of the Navy, Army, Marine Corps and Air Force were duty bound to contradict endorsements of racism.
- MyCue23, at Random Thoughts, suggests that the killing during the rightwing Charlottesville riot, like the murders in a Charleston church, like the selection of Donald Trump by a significant minority of voters, ought to combine to excise the myth of a new age of enlightenment that was supposed to have accompanied the election of Barack Obama. The battle will continue forever.
- Libertarian Michael A. LaFerrara at Principled Perspectives argues that gun control is a cover for abrogating gun rights. He calls out one gun control advocate for wanting to regulate free speech. Of special interest to me are these words: “Just as the Southern racists once used onerous voter ID laws to effectively prevent black Americans from voting…” Why the use of past tense?
- One by one, President Trump’s advisory councils have disbanded in revulsion at his racist utterings. Kathy Gill, Technology Policy Analyst at The Moderate Voice, calls for members of the Election Commission, the assignment of which is to suppress minority votes, to follow suit.
- Iron Knee at Political Irony has figured out when terrorism is not terrorism.
- Our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit deconstructs more moral equivalence. She looks for a unified alt-left, finds only cloudy air, and concludes that the group is a creative conservative fiction.
- Several decades ago, when my dad was still alive, he told me he found one Jerry Falwell speech especially compelling. He had been sort of on the fence about homosexuality, he said, but after listening to the good reverend he wanted to become gay. North Carolina pastor John Pavlovitz has listened to his President speak out against the alt-left and decided that fictional group is where he belongs.
- Jonathan Bernstein recommends a book from 1960 that predicted why Trump would become a failure.
- tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors reviews the growing list of rock-hard conservatives reacting against Trump and the likely price to be paid by those who don’t, and suggests the walls are closing in.
- Manifesto Joe at Texas Blues tells us why John Kelly, recently named chief of staff at the White House, cannot succeed in bringing discipline to the place.
- Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger warns us not to expect any change in the Trump White House with the departure of Steve Bannon. The main culprit for the expressions of racism and hatred is at a higher level.
- The Onion carries a behind the scenes report of the resignation, as Steve Bannon proclaims his work is done, then bursts into millions of spores and drifts away.
- The Journal of Improbable Research finds a study spanning three nations on how to use high voltage pulsing electricity to preserve rice pudding.
- Engaging and cute. Frances Langum brings us a song that is vastly, unexpectedly, improved by a four year old. Gotye augmented.
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