- This week’s note in Trumpian ‘Alternative Facts’ comes from Affinity Magazine with the reasoning of modern conservatives, which is to say Trump supporters, who find it reasonable to reject reason.
- Melissa Saunders at Anything Political gives a Weekly Reader recap of Trump agonistes and examines whether Rudy Giuliani has gotten President Trump into a deeper hot mess.
- At The Moderate Voice, Shaun Mullen has a flair for words, describing the clash of witless comedy versus the steely eyed Mueller juggernaut, as Giuliani meets the Trump narrative. Kind of like Ma and Pa Kettle picking a fight with Julius Caesar’s Roman army.
- We’re making America great again. Depending on how you define it, I suppose. Infidel753 looks at his checklist and isn’t sure how much more greatest the country can take.
- T. Paine, at Saving Common Sense, provides a combination of
- conservative fact list – Conservative British PM says parents should have no right to continue treatment on their own for a child determined by experts to be clinically dead (what the hell)
- conservative hope list – Trump coordinated peace in Korea (we all hope)
- conservative wish list – Iran proven to have violated nuclear deal (not true)
in a sort of confluence of conservative epistemic closure. See Julian Sanchez.
- Jack Jodell at The Saturday Afternoon Post reviews the history of war and peace and and Korea and Trump.
- Yellow Dog at Blue in the Bluegrass reports the hopeful news as students organize to meet with political leaders to talk about possible solutions to gun violence. One possible hitch. Most political leaders decline to show up.
- @bjork55 at Bjork Report has the picture. A sixth grader photobombs the selfie of a Florida politician with an unexpected gesture.
- At Web of Evil, it’s kind of like something from Eddie Poe (Okay – that’s flippant). The thousand injuries of Zuckerberg M. Bouffant has borne as best he could. But when Facebook ventures upon insult, by taking over baseball, he vows revenge.
- Vagabond Scholar does not mention Trump and company at all, as he quotes a minor poem by the great Robert Frost in a sort of primordeal Hobson’s choice.
- The Journal of Improbable Research finds a study by three universities who did MRIs on crocodiles as they listened to Bach.