Spider-Man surprises his biggest fan Brayan in the hospital and spends the day with him.
Spider-Man (Mattia Villardita) wrote: "Believe me when I say this. I bow to you. I am honored to be friends with one of the greatest heroes I have ever known.” pic.twitter.com/QqDwZOxrn1
— GoodNewsCorrespondent (@GoodNewsCorres1) December 10, 2022
- Frances Langum sees an annual ritual once more performed as the Fox Network launches their traditional accusation of a War on Christmas.
Happy Holidays to Fox!
- This Christmas, if you want to contribute to freedom without getting ripped off, Hackwhackers has a list of verified charities through which you can safely help Ukraine.
- News Corpse has some fun with the Trump Major Announcement that turns out to be about heroic trading cards that are not really even trading cards, just jpg images of trading cards.
One question occurs:
Will the cards include nude images of Hunter Biden stolen from his laptop? Right wing twitter users seem to especially salivate over those.
- Trading cards for Trump? M. Bouffant at Web of Evil wants to know why we should stop there. How about something for Ted Cruz?
- At The Moderate Voice Joe Gandelman watches a stumbling Trump as Republican voters suddenly prefer Ron DeSantis by a lot.
- Iron Knee at Political Irony listens as recovering Trumper Michael Cohen speculates about Donald Trump’s presidential run.
- Imani Gandy and Jessica Mason Pieklo of Rewire News Group take a look at Moore v. Harper, the Supreme Court case that might allow state legislatures to throw out any result they don’t like in Presidential elections.
- After a very tough couple of weeks for Donald Trump, Green Eagle begins his Wingnut Wrapup with Trump presenting his side in posts that reveal less argument than meltdown.
- Vixen Strangely at Strangely Blogged, sees one result of Trumpship loyalty is the sinking of Rudy Giuliani.
- At The Onion, the entire country learns a life-lesson from Republicans. The nation forgives Harvey Weinstein after he gets really good at football.
- Max’s Dad speculates on why Kyrsten Sinema acts so much like …well… Kyrsten Sinema.
- In a prisoner swap, BidenFolk got Brittney Griner released, while Paul Whelan remains in Putin’s hands. Conservatives are furious.
Biden has been working on both.
Succeeded on one.
Continuing on the other.Interesting you refuse to criticize Putin, who refuses to negotiate the release. Instead, you attack those trying to get Whelan out.
You are more interested in what you sense as a partisan opportunity.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) December 9, 2022
Our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit is a little more pointed in her reaction and is helped by Paul Whelan’s brother.
It does seem that conservative anger in this case is less about concern for Paul Whelan, than outrage that Brittney was released. - The Palmer Report notes that one side effect of the release of Brittney Griner is a demonstration of how sad a case Mike Pence has become.
- driftglass includes a screenshot of Elon Musk’s April wish:
I hope that even my worst critics remain on Twitter, because that is what free speech means
as driftglass covers the sudden Twitter banning of a host of Elon critics.
- Tommy Christopher gets impatient with media coverage of the Elon Musk “Twitter files” dump, coverage that acknowledges that there is no there there but says it’s worth talking and talking about anyway.
- Wisconsin conservative James Wigderson has a thought on media coverage of a recent bomb threat:
Seems to me this should be the top story on the @journalsentinel website, not buried at the bottom.
"Patti LaBelle concert evacuated at Milwaukee's Riverside Theater after bomb threat" https://t.co/CZFmRgspgw
— James Wigderson (@jwigderson) December 11, 2022
- In Letters from an American Heather Cox Richardson’s weekly summary includes the evolution over 150 years of the working definitions of “socialism” and “communism”.
One key paragraph
But in the United States, “socialism” and “communism” were defined in the 1870s by those opposed to Black voting, who insisted that letting Black men have a say in their government would create a racial redistribution of wealth that would destroy America.
- PZ Myers sees Fox get angry to the point of launching a campaign to get a Minnesota teacher fired for arguing an anti-capitalist point of view on social media.
So far, the school district is okay with her using social media to state her personal opinion. Something about 1st Amendment rights.
- Dave Dubya goes after a conservative, one who happens to be my valued friend, and goes into some detail including Articles and Clauses of the Constitution my friend claims to love.
- Julian Sanchez of the Cato Institute has done some intensive work on electronic privacy and potential government abuse. He suggests four major reforms Congress should consider.
- Sam Bankman-Fried has been arrested on Ponsi type fraud charges, accused of using crypto currency to cheat investors.
and
Andy Borowitz covers the story: World Shocked That Man Running Business Based On Imaginary Money Might Be Fraud.
Pertinent satiric passage:
“Of all of the firms offering big returns on made-up money, this one seemed the most solid,” a resident of London said.
- Disaffected and it Feels So Good makes the case that the crash of Crypto Currency has demonstrated that the entire concept has been a case of pickpockets gone electronic.
Key quote from U.S. District Court Judge Michael Fitzgerald:
While the law certainly places limits on those advertisers, it also expects investors to act reasonably before basing their bets on the zeitgeist of the moment.
Disaffected admires the phrasing:
Zeitgeist of the moment
- tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors highlights the Republican effort to impeach Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas because, under his leadership, so much fentanyl is successfully intercepted at the southern border. So, in conservative logic, the fact that he is doing a good job proves he is doing a bad job.
- Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger has the numbers on whether Americans favor abortion rights.
- Libertarian Michael A. LaFerrara has it right on the recently passed Respect for Marriage Act partially protecting gay marriage, lesbian marriage, and interracial marriage from more Supreme Court mischief.
Key paragraph:
Of course, the Respect for Marriage Act is wholly unnecessary as long as Obergefell v. Hodges, the pro-14th Amendment SCOTUS ruling that nullified state laws banning same-sex marriage, is not overturned. But it is not at all certain that the SCOTUS will not overturn Obergefell given the horrendous anti-Constitutional reasoning behind the shockingly reactionary Dobbs ruling, which ignored the Ninth Amendment and 14th Amendments and violated the Constitution’s philosophic conscience, the Declaration of Independence, to overturn Roe v. Wade.
He is right, as well, on the 9th and 14th amendments.
- In Nan’s Notebook, Nan reads an opinion piece and has questions about the sanctity of marriage.
- North Carolina pastor John Pavlovitz has notes on the woke, liberal, leftist movement of Jesus.
- In The Life and Times of Bruce Gerencser, Bruce asks why God is too busy to answer fervent prayer.
- Scotties Playtime invites us to watch as a Florida teacher harasses Muslim students at prayer, stepping on their hands.
Key quote:
I believe in Jesus, so I’m interrupting the floor.
Fortunately, this individual was fired.
- Vincent at A Wayfarer’s Notes finds meaning in a song from more than 40 years ago, Peter Gabriel’s Solsbury Hill.
- @whiskeywhistle98 has an appealing way to count the days of the season:
@whiskeywhistle98 Pretty much…..So exciting….#fyp #foryouroage #mentalhealthmatters #mentalhealthbreakdown #kids #tiktokmom #goodgo #imgonnaloseit #humor ♬ original sound – That Ginger Fella - Turns out YellowDog Granny is a lot like Christmas lights.
- Infidel753 describes vital scientific interest combined with frustrating technical difficulty as a moon of Saturn seems to have an environment especially favorable to the emergence of life. Problem: we do not yet have technology that can easily verify that life exists there.
Key passage:
The analysis also detected complex organic molecules which implied that amino acids may exist in the ocean. This is not, in itself, evidence of life there, but it tells us that Enceladus’s ocean is an unusually favorable environment for the emergence of life, perhaps the most favorable in the solar system after Earth itself.
- The Journal of Improbable Research discovers a study on how to use tea leaves to make supercapacitors.
- If you’ve had a thought or two about buying the new Google Pixel Watch, John Scalzi at Whatever got there ahead of you, has some experience with it, and is happy to tell you all about the pros and cons.
- In Happiness Between Tails da-AL fondly remembers the late Ashley Peterson and her advice on self-publishing.
- Clickbait satirist Reductress invites us to learn how to achieve work-life balance by never responding to urgent emails.
- Dave Columbo demonstrates an antique show any of us would love to watch:
@davecolumbo They can be so condescending sometimes #tv #antiques #antique #sketch #sketchcomedy #funny #fy #fyp #foryou ♬ original sound – Dave Columbo - SilverAppleQueen devotes a poem to a cop on the beat.
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thanks for the laughs & insights, & for including my post here – Aunt Tildy lol