Whether it is humans or animals, children are born with kindness, compassion, love and grace. Somewhere along the line we seem to spoil it all.
Cc: @Yoda4ever pic.twitter.com/RmccgitlDL— DAPPER DON DHARSHI • K A M I L • (@SoloFlow786) September 7, 2022
- Vixen Strangely, at Strangely Blogged, waxes with justified harshness on the artist formerly known as Kanye.
Key passage on Ye’s love for the Nazi formerly known as Hitler:
… he was just blossoming with love for the guy who apparently invented highways and microphones. And whose culpability for the Holocaust is just, like, your opinion.
- Green Eagle attacks Kanye’s Hitlerlove from another direction. No, der Führer did not invent highways or the microphone Kanye uses to chant his bigotries.
- Dave Dubya broke down mr Trump’s dinner companion Nick Fuentes. And this was even before Kanye’s embrace of the swastika.
- The Palmer Report has the counts for CNN, MSNBC, and Fox. During the two weeks between the infamous Trump dinner and this past Tuesday, we can guess which 24-hour news network mentioned Fuentes the least.
But by that amount?
Over 2 weeks?
Nearly half a month?
Seriously?
- In the Borowitz Report, Trump says he did not know the identity of his dinner guest owing to the white hood.
Key passage:
“I didn’t think it was very smart to be wearing white to dinner with me,” the former President said. “When I eat, a lot of ketchup goes flying.”
- At The Onion, former President Trump is seriously disappointed as he is told by a Holocaust denier that the Holocaust never happened.
Key passage:
Fuentes comforted Trump by assuring him that if they worked together, the Holocaust did not have to remain a fantasy.
- Tommy Christopher watches as Jan Psaki makes news. She has been talking with a DOJ source. Seems Merrick Garland is a “quiet storm” building an expansive case against mr Trump.
- At News Corpse, mr Trump attacks Garland’s new Special Council as a monster, while accidentally admitting his own guilt.
- In Letters from an American, historian Heather Cox Richardson does a roundup of this week’s history making news, including a crazy-level pro-trump judge being slapped down along with poor Trump, a stunned Alex Jones who talks with Kanye and suddenly finds himself the sane one, and McCarthy agonistes as Kevin grovels in the dirt at the feet of gloating extremists.
Most recently, he sternly demands the January 6 Committee preserve records that, under House rules, already will automatically be preserved, and which the Committee is scheduled to make public anyway.
- We see an unusual bit of reasoning for a McCarthy speakership, of which Wisconsin conservative James Wigderson seems skeptical:
What is this, a playground? https://t.co/RdUObvXjYB
— James Wigderson (@jwigderson) November 27, 2022
- Hackwhackers goes cartooning to count up conservative travails in Mar‑A‑Lago, 1/6 trials, and fighting within the slender Republican House majority. Are they tired of winning?
- Frances Langum watches with interest as Brian Kemp’s running mate, Georgia Republican Lieutenant Governor Geoff Duncan says he couldn’t bring himself to vote for Herschel Walker.
Yikes.
Key passage:
This. Is. Bad.
- tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors has the sad story of failed GOP candidate for Governor Kari Lake, and how the terrible people of Arizona are not willing to go to jail for her.
Reminds me of the late great humorous political prankster, Dick Tuck.
Dick ran as a Democrat for California legislator in the for real Republican tsunami of 1966.
He not only lost, they threw rocks at him. (Okay, I made that part up)
Watching the returns come in, Dick spoke with a reporter about democracy and the virtue of submitting to the will of the people.
In this case, the people have spoken. [Pause] The bastards!
- Legal expert and journalist Imani Gandy tries to figure out what happened with Hunter Biden’s laptop:
I saw mommy kissing Hunter Biden's laptop
— Imani Gandied Yams🍂 @angryblacklady@mstdn.social (@AngryBlackLady) December 3, 2022
the laptop went back and to the left. Back and to the left
— Imani Gandied Yams🍂 @angryblacklady@mstdn.social (@AngryBlackLady) December 3, 2022
- Nan’s Notebook looks at her own life as an elder, and has concerns as she sees possible parallel weaknesses in Joe Biden.
- Infidel753 reviews the election, congratulates Democrats, then warns they are headed for a fall down a long flight of stairs if they don’t mend their ways.
- At The Moderate Voice, Joe Gandelman notices strange things happening in the Kingdom of Twitter. For example the Holocaust Museum seems to have been removed from automatic follows, just as racist and antisemitic hate content is surging.
- I am convinced that what happens on, and to, Twitter is not as significant as we might think. At worst, it will still serve as a prototype – proof of concept – if it fails to serve and we all find another social platform. At best, loss of advertisers and a serious ideological tilt could convince even Musk to self-correct.
Julian Sanchez says it:It would be a real loss if there were not *something like Twitter*. But I don’t care at all whether it’s this particular site, beyond the modest inconvenience of rebuilding the follows/followers graph somewhere else. https://t.co/81PMG9Fkwn
— Julian Sanchez (@normative) December 2, 2022
- PZ Myers reacts to Elon’s next project: messing with people’s brains.
Two key passages relating to building an internet-type network in everyone’s head, and whether biological problems are nothing more than engineering problems requiring identical skills.
Musk: …when you break down the skills that are needed to make Neuralink work, it’s actually many of the same skills that are required to make a smartwatch or modern phone work.
AND
Professor Myers: NO. NO NO NO NO NOOOOOOOOOOO.
- Disaffected and it Feels So Good takes a look at the railroad strike that didn’t quite happen, as an effort by railroad management to revert to the late 1800’s with a side order of Republicans blaming Biden.
- CalicoJack in The Psy of Life looks at the Club Q mass shooting as a case study, examining the many and varied causes of violence.
Jack does his homework, and presents his findings briefly in ways we who are not experts can easily grasp.
- Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger has the stats. An overwhelming, and growing, majority of Americans disagree with the Republican stand against gay marriage.
- Scotties Playtime is amazed as a school board in Virginia demands teachers not instruct kids how to eat poop.
Key passage:
Seriously what the religious right thinks is going on in schools is so Qanon over the top it is hard to take them seriously, except they are managing to use their fantasies to wipe the LGBTQI+ out of the schools and society.
- The Propaganda Professor visits Vietnam and notices a propensity in our two countries, which he suggests is shared globally, to conflate patriotism with an inability to admit wrongdoing, except wrongdoing by others.
- Going by my fading memory:
I’m pretty sure arch-conservative William F. Buckley correctly observed of extremists that they are often incapable of ideological distinctions.
As an example, he told of a small publication by some leftist student group that reacted to the assassination of Robert Kennedy with a photoshopped picture of the dying Kennedy with the head of a pig superimposed over his own.
Libertarian Michael A. LaFerrara sees no difference between Fascism and Communism because both depart from the ideal of libertarian non‑government and are therefore statist.
That both deprive us of liberty is a lethal similarity, it is true. But they remain philosophical opposites.
Michael’s reasoning could lead us to say that, since freezing alone in the cold and incineration both lead to death, fire and ice are the same thing.
- North Carolina pastor John Pavlovitz says that, yes, there is a War on Christmas and the right is waging it. makes a strong case.
- M. Bouffant at Web of Evil nominates for least self-aware a twitter contribution by Matt Gaetz.
- In the Ant Farmer’s Almanac, singer/poet Bob Dylan apologizes for something or other.
- In The Life and Times of Bruce Gerencser, atheist Bruce takes us back to his previous life as a Pastor. He struggled with, and occasionally played games with, Christian communion.
It would be difficult not to like and admire this thoughtful and empathetic man.
So, I ask my brothers and sisters in Christ, why even try?
- The Strategic Studies Book Club reviews the vision presented by Immanuel Kant of a path from mankind’s natural state of war to perpetual peace.
- SilverAppleQueen has cats and a son and a daughter-in-law and hopeful anticipation and, suddenly, happily, a beautiful granddaughter.
- @whiskeywhistle98 reveals the real reason she is not dating:
@whiskeywhistle98 Marriage humor..#tiktokmom #fyp #foryourpage #dating #married #single #roomate #home #kids ♬ Roommate – TheBlondeBrewer - Dave Columbo knows all about the hardships of dating:
@davecolumbo #standup #comedy #standupcomedy #couples #dating #30s #jokes ♬ Super Mario 64 (Main Theme) – Tony Brattoli - The Journal of Improbable Research finds a study on what happens to a drop of whiskey as it dries.
- Our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit has a couple of examples of mood altering substances.
- Clickbait satirist Reductress brings up an all too common problem. At one time or another we must all have wished the 9/11 operator would just listen and not rush to offer solutions.
Key question:
Is it too much to ask for empathetic communication?
- YellowDog Granny has a couple of common sense ideas on how to look better naked.
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thanks for ending with the well needed chuckle of whiskeywhislte!
True. She is wonderful.
Don’t need to post this, but just wanted to let you know that prayers are still being said for a full recovery of your Marine, my friend.
Of course I will post this reminder of our longtime friendship and the concern that typifies your gracious generosity toward me and those for whom I care.
Thank you, my longtime friend.