- Blue in the Bluegrass brings us a brief lesson in moneyed politics from Franklin Roosevelt.
- Infidel753 explores the lessons that Alabama teaches to those of good will in the rest of the nation.
- At The Moderate Voice, Military Affairs Columnist Dorian de Wind rejoices at the return, albeit slow, of decency and respect to American political life, and offers a contrast with cases around of world of people who have never lost sight of principle. He suggests one example: Malālah Yūsafzay of Pakistan.
- Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger commits research and finds that the virtues and benefits of the Republican tax bill are not believed by the public.
- A terrorist attack unfolds in New York. Tommy Christopher is there as my president responds with what is really important: attacking a black journalist.
- The Borowitz Report brings us the newest White House explanation of Trump’s slurred speech: a problem with Vladimir Putin’s remote.
- Jonathan Bernstein says Paul Ryan’s prospects are grim if he stays.
- Historians at The Onion are unable to determine how Americans were able to build the Hoover Dam.
- Dave Barry comes out for national standardized tests for all school children, on the principle that he won’t have to take them.
- Our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit writes about how, through clerical incompetence, her father was pulled out of a unit later trapped during the Battle of the Bulge during World War II.
- nojo at Stinque takes a look at how white people can live in a world of white privilege without seeing the white privilege in which they live.
- In The Life and Times of Bruce Gerencser, former pastor, current atheist, Bruce explains to us the burden carried by atheists who must deal with relatives who are still of faith.
- Sci-fi author John Scalzi at Whatever has a few thoughts after seeing The Last Jedi. He promises not to reveal any secret spoilers “because I am not a dick.”
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