- Infidel753 brings us yet another example of wingnutty intolerance, this time on Halloween. The video rebuke by Bill Maher is worth watching. Interestingly, these folks vote. Perhaps we should as well.
- Max’s Dad rants about the week’s atrocities and makes a persuasive case for what we must do about it Tuesday.
- Jack Jodell at The Saturday Afternoon Post lists eight important reasons we should vote three days from now.
- M. Bouffant at Web of Evil tells the story of a positive ad (at last!) from a Republican Congressional Representative who helped a veteran get a lung transplant. He is proud now to have the veteran’s support. Turns out the lung recipient is an unrepentant racist who advocates violence. Well, you help who you can, right? Still, I’d back off from pride at having that particular support.
- Six years ago, a few capitol police officers were ordered to arrest legally assembled protestors, which some did with enthusiasm despite the lack of actual charges. At the time, a politician asked what happens when police become terrorists. Wisconsin conservative James Wigderson joins with conservatives to accuse that politician of saying police are terrorists. Sounds like a typical campaign season.
- North Carolina pastor John Pavlovitz describes how monstrous words, when uttered by a national leader, can produce monsters.
- Vixen Strangely at Strangely Blogged reads the tweets and determines how a self-centered personality reacts after tragedy. Apt title, too.
- PZ Myers explains via cartoon panels how civility seems to be working out as an answer to violent hatred.
- Libertarian Michael A. LaFerrara concludes that the science of climate change is all bunk because scientific consensus has changed during the last 29 years.
- driftglass speculates on who is up to replace Megyn Kelly on Today. Okay, not quite seriously.
- The Journal of Improbable Research discovers an explanation of a classic math problem: predicting the most likely routes of a drunken pedestrian wandering around the French city of Nice.
- This week’s note in Trumpian ‘Alternative Facts’ comes from the Huffington Post as President Trump insists he always tries to tell the truth, but bumps into a Twitter crowd who have been paying attention.
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