Seldom Balanced – Usually Fair
From The Journal of Improbable Research:
The experimental study, which X-rayed crumpets at various stages of cooking, showed, for the first time that:
“ […] whilst the voidage fraction remains approximately constant, there is a significant increase in the mean diameter of the vertical pores over the crumpet height.
From Neil Bamforth at MadMikesAmerica:
The European Union seem to have declined Britain’s most generous offer of 20 billion pounds as a ‘divorce settlement’ when we leave – albeit I’m still tempted to write ‘if we leave’ as I’m far from convinced the British government has the balls to actually do it. Still, we must proceed under the impression we are leaving as that is what we voted to do. Latest reports suggest Prime Minister, Theresa May, is about to offer them 40 billion to try and get things moving.
This 20 billion / 40 billion business is quite confusing mainly because nobody has the foggiest idea why we should be offering them any money at the moment.
Wondering why a few conservative friends are less than impressed.
It’s November 19 and the man has spoken. The crowd is unimpressed.
That is all there is? Really?
Let’s face it. Our President is not what anyone would call widely admired. A few lawmakers in the Republican party, his party, are speaking out. More are said to be criticizing him bitterly in private. Even supporters see him as the most divisive leader the country has ever had.
George Templeton Strong of New York calls it for many.
A barbarian, a Scythian, a yahoo, a gorilla.
At this one event, you would think the President of the United States would have risen to the occasion.
Continue reading “The Long Presidential Journey from the Profound to the Petty”
From Shaun Mullen at The Moderate Voice:
There is a glimmer of hope even as Donald Trump destroys the government, undermines our core values, tries to divide us with hate and fear mongering, further isolates America from the world community and becomes increasingly unhinged.
This is because we are at the point in the movie known as the Russia scandal where the plot, star and supporting actors are well known even if the ending is not. Beyond the Right Wing Noise Machine, an increasing number of policy makers and mere mortals like you and I now not only believe that Russia interfered in the 2016 election for the purpose of electing Trump, but his campaign — and the Global Village Idiot himself — eagerly participated in that effort.
Does this bring us any closer to impeachment or forced resignation? Not necessarily, but the path to those outcomes is clearer and the possibility that Trump will not serve out his usurped-by-cybersabotage four-year term improves with each new gut-wrenching revelation.
The case against Trump has been made; we’re just filling in the details and waiting for the next round of indictments from Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
From Green Eagle:
So, Charlie Manson finally kicked the bucket.
Charlie had sort of loomed over us for most of our lives, an infamous, creepy, horrible and yet somehow attractive figure who etched himself permanently into American culture by acts he incited over two days in the sixties.
What has occurred to me in thinking about it is how Charlie, in a strange way, was a symbol of a much more innocent time.
From Jonathan Bernstein:
Leading Democrats from Tim Kaine to Bernie Sanders are waging a war against superdelegates as part of the Democratic presidential nomination process. But ditching them would be a gigantic self-inflicted error.
The case for the supers is stronger than ever in the era of celebrity candidates and foreign interference in elections, regardless of what the populists and good government folks believe. In fact, the supers are part of a solution to all kinds of potential breakdowns in the modern nomination system. Democrats would be foolish to throw them away.
From Frances Langum:
CNN had another Trump supporter (no, CNN, they are Republicans. Republican Trump supporters. Don’t you dare call it Trumpism) panel and one of the participants let loose this doozy:
“If Jesus Christ gets down off the cross and told me Trump is with Russia, I would tell him, ‘Hold on a second. I need to check with the President if it’s true.'”
One woman on the panel rolled her eyes, and the other two women made that big smile deer-in-the-headlights face rather than disagree.
Wondering why a few conservative friends are less than impressed.
From Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger:
Trump and his supporters welcomed the trip to Asia, because they thought it would make him look presidential and would improve his job approval numbers. But the trip, regardless of Trump’s bragging about it, was far from a success — and the public knows it.
His job approval numbers actually went down after the Asian trip.
