- North Carolina pastor John Pavlovitz has urged caution in the privilege of opting out of the messy work of justice. Now he suggests personal balance: personal things we must not forget while resisting. Like life.
- Atheist professor PZ Myers appreciates Charlottesville clergy for the nucleus of resistance to white supremacy, urging fellow atheists to link arms with religious folks of good will.
- In The Life and Times of Bruce Gerencser, former pastor and current atheist Bruce re-introduces us to the use of scripture in 1960 by the late Bob Jones to defend segregation as ordered by God.
- M. Bouffant at Web of Evil counts down the many many reasons to regard Trump pardoned Joe Arpaio as a scumbag. The reason Joe was held guilty was that he continued to order his officers to arrest motors who looked Latino in case they might later turn out to be illegal immigrants. A court had told him not to do that anymore, but he persisted (to coin a phrase).
- President Trump is against removing monuments celebrating Confederacy’s heroes. Next we’ll be tearing down statues of Washington and Jefferson. “Where does it stop?” Libertarian Michael A. LaFerrara at Principled Perspectives considers my President’s argument and is having none of it. “Indeed . . . where does it stop—that is, where does the display of blatantly anti-American symbolism end?” I have expressed a similar thought.
- E.A. Blair at MadMikesAmerica brings back some largely unknown history from the late John Denver, including an anti-fascist song now re-written as the ‘I Am Not Alt-Right Polka’.
- Green Eagle ponders yet another instance of Trump folk lying about trivial things. In this case it concerns the rally in Arizona and is, once more, about crowd size. Photoshop and image substitution are exposed. Can the supporters of this alt-President get more petty?
- This week’s note in Trumpian ‘Alternative Facts’ comes from The Washington Post. A minor league baseball team in Pennsylvania hosted an Alternative Facts Night, complete with exaggerated claims.
- Frances Langum watches and records as Morning Joe takes on my President’s threat to shut down the government if Congress does not pay for his wall.
- Andy Borowitz reports as a growing number of Americans demand that an offensive symbol of racism be removed from public property. Whatever could they mean?
- nojo at Stinque reviews Trump actions and notes a sad fact of human history. We who were needlessly impressed by dumber parts of Larry Niven’s Ringworld once called it tanj: there ain’t no justice. nojo says it better.
- Jon Perr at PERRspectives is unimpressed with the minority of Republican office holders who boldly criticized our President’s bland defense of the “fine people” marching with Nazis and white supremacists. He reminds us that these same brave few conservatives were said and did nothing when it mattered most.
- Tommy Christopher goes to the transcript to show how Paul Ryan had to have his arm twisted into admiting that Trump bigotry is simply wrong. Even then he had to put a universal qualifier on it. We can all do better?
- @bjork55 at Bjork Report has a plausible explanation for why the Speaker cannot bring himself to ‑ um ‑ speak out more directly.
- Yellow Dog at Blue in the Bluegrass seems to have lost patience with lazy rich folks who attack those struggling in poverty for being too lazy to struggle harder.
- Infidel753 explains a nuclear flashpoint, virtually unreported, but more immediate than the Korean peninsula. This is serious.
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