- Max’s Dad listens to the reaction of a rare non-rally crowd to our beloved president and remembers sports boos from decades past.
- Dave Dubya describes his own reaction to my President’s reaction to the reaction of a non-MAGA-hat crowd to seeing his image: baseball booing.
- In The Borowitz Report, President Trump has an explanation. World Series fans wanted to lock him up in the White House for doing an excellent job.
- About that World Series:
Tommy Christopher reports on how Nationals team member Sean Doolittle seems to have wanted to join his teammates on a celebratory trip to the White house to meet the President. Doolittle spent some time thinking over his own efforts and experiences and decided, “I just can’t do it.”
- Vixen Strangely at Strangely Blogged shows us a tweet from Pastor Robert Jeffress, “The effort to impeach President Trump is really an effort to impeach our own deeply held faith values”, then breaks the ethereal bubble with a penetrating question: When did extortion become a deeply held faith value?
- So now Republicans are reverting to Mulvaney-lite: that quid pro quo is, by definition, attaching eligibility requirements to assistance. It happens all the time in foreign aid. Totally legal and appropriate.
Our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit takes a moment to teach our conservative friends how extorting for political smears is not the same.
- Okay, so it’s just name calling, but it is creative name calling. Scottie, from Scotties Toy Box, has a low opinion of the intelligence of GOP member of Congress and fanatic Trump defender Matt Gaetz.
- Iron Knee at Political Irony sees one part of the anti-Trump universe he really, really fears: over-confidence.
- Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger shows us how balanced journalism will deal with Trump’s final defense strategy. Modern reporting can’t be one-sided, right?
- At The Onion we have balanced journalism at its finest, presenting both sides equally. Presented at along last, the parts of JFK’s Dallas visit that really went well.
- In The Life and Times of Bruce Gerencser, Bruce quotes the Bible on the difference between us Christians and unsaved humanity, and goes to his own experiences as a pastor to take down, hilariously, those of us who know the mind of God. For myself, I keep a copy in my wallet of a prayer by Trappist monk Thomas Merton. When it gets too tattered with re-reading or when I give it away, I replace it with a copy taken from one of many sites.
- Two great layperson type science questions:
- The universe being so astonishingly huge, how can there not be other, indeed many, technologically based civilizations?
- If there are, why have we been unable to detect any sign of them?
Infidel753 posts a video suggesting that we have needlessly restricted our search by not looking for signs of extinct intelligent life. Maybe climate change is a literally universal affliction that goes with unregulated technology?
By the way, Infidel, one of nature’s great signs of intelligent life, has fallen on temporary hard times while successfully getting a new day job. Please go here to find out more, and do consider sending a couple of bucks.
- Libertarian Michael A. LaFerrara still regards climate crisis as “a political tactic for a totalitarian socialist agenda” and insists the science that backs it up should be prohibited in classrooms.
- The Journal of Improbable Research finds research by London’s Regents Univerity on the psychological responses to horror films. No word on the psycho-harm of horror presidents.
- M. Bouffant at Web of Evil got a couple of dollar bills in change, examined them closely, and determined that civilization is in steep, steep decline.
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