- Jack Jodell at The Saturday Afternoon Post renews vows of love for Free Speech TV at http://www.freespeech.org/.
- Infidel753 brings us a NASA produced video with the story of Cassini and the mission finale, crashing into Saturn. Spectacular imagery.
- Our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit translates the convoluted tale told by the Secretary of the Treasury about the trip he made with his wife to the heart of the solar eclipse in order not to watch it. Although they saw it kind of by accident, out of politeness to the local rubes.
- Good News. John McCain criticizes fellow Republicans for denying basic climate science. Green Eagle points out the bad news. John McCain has no idea of their motives. Really? It’s not obvious?
- @bjork55 at Bjork Report reports on the continuous emotional binge in which our President engages about Comey and the hunting witches.
- nojo, at Stinque, has figured out why Facebook is withholding information on illegal Russian political advertising for the Trump campaign: They can.
- At The Onion, White House Chief of Staff John Kelly is dealing with exhaustion from the overwhelming job of keeping our President close to a sense of sane maturity.
- The White House wants ESPN to fire Jemele Hill for calling out our President as a white supremacist. North Carolina pastor John Pavlovitz is skeptical. As he says with a bit of sarcasm, nothing says “we’re not white supremacists,” like a bunch of white people publicly bullying a woman of color. If racism is nothing more than a rhetorical bludgeon, then insulting our president is bad. If it is a fact-based charge that can be demonstrated or falsified, we should look to evidence. Pastor Pavlovitz considers publicly available evidence.
- Andy Borowitz presents a compelling but unusual case proving Donald Trump is not a white supremacist.
- Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger puts into quick graphic form just who will benefit from President Trump’s proposed tax cut. Turns out that 2/3 of the benefit will flow as a windfall to … Holy Cow!
- Yellow Dog at Blue in the Bluegrass presents a very quick, pithy, compelling case against Republican economic policy.
- Iron Knee at Political Irony seems to feel that the most rabidly anti-immigrant conservatives have trouble with personal responsibility.
- M. Bouffant at Web of Evil looks into competing theories on why Steve Bannon appears on camera in nationally broadcast interviews wearing multiple shirts at the same time. I kind of like the conspiracy one: television technicians tried to change the colors of Bannon, and (I suppose) all his shirts, so they would clash.
- Vixen Strangely, at Strangely Blogged, watched the 60 Minutes interview with Steve Bannon and was impressed enough with his appearance to seemingly suggest he audition for a remake of a television series from the 1990’s.
- I love the rants of Max’s Dad. This time he goes all Popeil, slicing and dicing white supremacists, beginning with Steve Bannon.
- The Moderate Voice relays the news: London seems to have been targeted by a failed terrorist device which subjected 22 people to mostly minor injuries. Other countries expressed support and solidarity. My President offered a rhetorical attack on England. Well, of course.
- Mexico has offered help and prayers to Texas before retreating to their own national damage. But as Irma follows up, with more potential trouble forming in the Atlantic, Neil Bamforth at MadMikesAmerica reports that Northern England is sending boatloads of sarcastic understatement. Nice. Could that be a reaction by citizens against our wayward president?
- John Scalzi at Whatever adopts the role of internet dad in a hilarious exchange with his temp-adopted writer sons. Okay, “hilarious” is editorial opinion, not solid fact.
- The Journal of Improbable Research discovers a study on the effect of explosion-puffed coffee on fruit flies.
- This week’s note in Trumpian ‘Alternative Facts’ comes from the Atlantic Magazine, with a detailed examination of President Trump’s Commission on Election Integrity. Seems the premise of the panel is firmly contradicted by the evidence presented. Turns out it really is all about voter suppression.
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Thanks for the links. God knows, old Green Eagle can use the attention. This was a very good collection of web posts, some of them from sites I was not that familiar with. Believe me, I know how hard it is to keep going in today’s political climate; I know many people appreciate the effort you are expending.
+1.