- Our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit is delightfully acerbic at reports that my president cancelled everything and left the NATO summit in a huff because our allies were caught on video laughing at him.
- Andy Borowitz reports on the blowup at the NATO summit as national leaders challenge Donald Trump to a spelling contest in which he is required to spell “NATO”.
- North Carolina pastor John Pavlovitz is asked what happens if Trump wins again. Pastor John answers in two ways. He explains what we must do if that happens. And he explains what we must do to keep that from happening.
- After the Boston Massacre of 1770, British soldiers who had killed civilians were arrested and tried for murder. They were successfully defended in court by future US President John Adams. At The Moderate Voice, Hart Williams recounts Adam’s final summary in that case in contrast with Bill Barr, Donald Trump, and today’s Republican Party.
- Republicans are embracing the propoganda of Russia’s government that Ukraine, not Russia, interfered in the 2016 US election. Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger sifts through the polls and discovers that voters are not buying it.
- Says something, I suppose, about the current state of political conservatism. Iron Knee at Political Irony reports on the retirement of US Senator Johnny Isakson (R-GA). Seems no Republican Senator can be found willing to replace him as chair of the Senate Ethics Committee. Nobody. Taunts practically invent themselves. GOP ethics have become toxic. It’s late. Seemed the most obvious.
- Scotties Toy Box decyphers why so many aging white conservative are okay with abandoning democracy in favor of being ruled by a Russian autocrat. There is a reason, a shameful reason, so many of my generation love our Uncle Vlad.
- A reporter demands that Speaker Pelosi explain whether she hates my president. tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors contrasts the reactions: sharp, angry reasoning by Nancy Pelosi and sniping insults by Donald Trump.
- Frances Langum watches Joe Biden’s righteously angry reaction at a Fox News devotee who accuses him of sponsoring unqualified son Hunter for a job. Why the Fox follower knows it’s true: “I see it on the TV.”
- Tommy Christopher covers the corporate agony as an obscure food magazine names Mitch McConnell as its Man of the Year. A large grocery chain with a similar name scrambles to deny and deny and deny McConnell’s own false claim that the food chain endorsed him.
- The Propaganda Professor runs through an entertaining summary of the checkered career of the self-proclaimed undercover exposer of liberals, James O’Keefe. Seems the fraud sniffer is largely fraudulent himself, making it up as he goes along. Still, he has harmed real people.
- Libertarian Michael A. LaFerrara is alarmed by Elizabeth Warren’s proposal to penalize corporations when they deliberately lie to government regulators. Michael sees it as an attack on free speech. I dunno. People died and little kids got seriously sick from contaminated peanut butter during the self-inspection days of the Bush administration. Maybe corporate perjury laws could have prevented that.
- nojo contrasts professional reporting as he learned it as a youth in journalism class with how it is practiced today. It isn’t just Fox, although that is today’s epicenter of journalistic degeneracy. nojo takes on the mainstream, mostly for rigid presentation of both sides as equidistant from truth, as opposed to diligence in searching for that truth.
- Wisconsin conservative James Wigderson is understandably horrified by a shooting at the school his own kids once attended. He attacks Democrats for their reactions, that we should try to prevent such tragedies (“talking points about gun control”). James singles out one proposal that, as he points out, would not have prevented this single incident. So obviously, it and other proposals are not worth considering. But James does suggest “we find out all the facts…” So I guess we’re left with thoughts and prayers.
- This is a brief bit of truth. Green Eagle accurately explains that the Conservative Party in Britain has driven that nation to “economic and political collapse” but despairs at the irresponsible response by the opposition.
- Infidel753 has little patience with blogging trolls.
- In The Life and Times of Bruce Gerencser, his counselor decides that Bruce suffers from a lack of contentment. Bruce fumes for a bit, then rejects the concept … sort of. Frankly introspective, as always.
- Master of angry rant Max’s Dad goes to an old theatre, sits in an uncomfortable seat, twists his neck trying to see the screen, then falls in love with the movie. He begs readers to go watch The Irishman. Wow. Must be an extremely good movie.
- Author John Scalzi at Whatever writes about his adventure with narcotics police after a friend bakes bread made from 4,500 year old yeast and sends it to him. The bread is flagged by police canines as a large package of illegal narcotics. Nobody is harmed and the bread is never in any danger. A photo of one eventual sandwich is posted.
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HAHa! A million years ago (on my 21st birthday party!) four or five friends were at my house smoking dope and chatting, when we got busted by about half a dozen cops who apparently thought we were big time dealers or something.
Then they found a (hard, dense) loaf of bread I had just baked, and they thought it was a huge chunk of hashish, until I pointed out its ingredients!
They confiscated my all time favorite pipe, and missed the ice cream carton full of pot in the freezer. And left. No arrests, no consequences! (I was teaching at a Catholic high school at the time!)
Great story. Great luck on your part.
Seems like the bread might have been a career saver.
Thanks for the comment.