- This week’s note in Trumpian ‘Alternative Facts’ comes from The Hill where Glenn Altschuler takes a look at President Trump’s explanations for his new emergency and compares them with facts and figures published by President Trump’s own administration.
- At The Onion, the Trump base is in awe as my President bravely stands up to the Constitution
- Green Eagle takes on conservative, Trump supporting evangelical Christians by explaining Jesus to them. Well, somebody had to. Pastor John can’t do everything.
- Speaking of which: North Carolina pastor John Pavlovitz watches two sides: those who would build an expanding American table to welcome desperate people fleeing oppression, and others who would build a wall to keep them out. The table makers are winning. I dunno. We can hope he’s right.
- Andy Borowitz reports that a recently convicted drug cartel king is learning from my President as El Chapo insists he is a victim of a phony witch hunt. Yeah, yeah, I already know it’s satire.
- Frances Langum watches Stacey Abrams explain how she prepared for the best ever SOTU response and tell us the best way to avoid validating bad Presidential behavior.
- Yellow Dog at Blue in the Bluegrass rages at Republican plans to eliminate the meager pensions of Kentucky state employees, while expanding their own.
- So the owner of the National Inquirer tried to blackmail Jeff Bezos. Bezos turned the tables by publicizing the attempt. Some legal opinion holders think freedom of speech or the press is at stake. At The Moderate Voice Evan Sarzin examines those arguments and suggests blackmail is not one of our freedoms.
- At MadMikesAmerica Neil Bamforth considers Liam Neeson’s flirtation with racism 40 years back.
- John Scalzi at Whatever celebrated romantic love this week by posting step-by-step photos on how to put together the ideal Valentine burrito.
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I Miss You
The Missing People Choir
MAS QUE NADA
Sergio Mendez and Brazil 66
Earth, Wind & Fire
September
Walking In Memphis
Marc Cohn
James Bond Medley
Berlin Film Orchestra
Rule of Law:
a President, a Governor, a Worker
When we compare the prosecutions in Wisconsin and Alabama under the last Republican administration with that of our current President, the contrast is cruel and unusual.
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a President, a Governor, a Worker”
Northam, Trump Ordained, SOTU, Both Siders, Pecker Pecked
- Iron Knee at Political Irony is a lonely voice, defending Virginia Governor Ralph Northam.
- Professor PZ Myers considers Northam, then digs out and goes through his own school yearbook, and thinking about how to react to youthful racism from the dim, dim past.
- At MadMikesAmerica, Gregory Gonzalez seems skeptical about claims that God ordained Donald Trump President.
- In case you missed my President’s SOTU address: Green Eagle thoughtfully provides a review, although Green Eagle did not listen to it either. Interesting how he gets it so exactly right.
- News Corpse watches as President Trump reacts to investigations by repeating weird conspiracy theories about Adam Schiff. Yeah, the one who chairs one of the investigating committees. Come on, people. Do we really have to resort to watching Trump sweat? Just for entertainment? This is my President for God’s sake. So … What the hell! Lets.
- This will be making the rounds. Frances Langum watches as Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker gets snotty with a chairman in a Congressional hearing where he is on television and under oath. This is a guy who actually sweats. A lot.
- Jon Perr at PERRspectives takes on the both sides do it argument as the lazy analyst’s substitute for actual journalism. Debt ceiling extortion is only a symptom of a broader one sided rot that puts the lie to political symmetry.
- David Pecker of National Inquirer fame goes to sleazy form and tries a bit of sextortion on Trump enemy Jeff Bezos. Bezos performs PR martial art and flips the story from the blackmail subject to the blackmail attempt itself. Vixen Strangely at Strangely Blogged admires, with some common euphemistic phrasing, Bexos’ anatomical virility. So to speak.
- Dave Dubya describes authoritarian far right conservatism as global, transcending national borders.
- Our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit gets riled about police departments that issue tickets for the sole purpose of raising revenue. As it happens, I have felt the same way for years.
- Jack Jodell at The Saturday Afternoon Post points to the evidence and suggests that our nation has been socialist for a long, long time.
- Libertarian Michael A. LaFerrara is less afraid of Donald Trump than of his opposition. That is because democracy is the enemy of liberty.
- The Journal of Improbable Research finds a study on college studies involving students. Are they pressured into participating? How do motivations skew results? Are risks unethically imposed? Part of the study involves the use of nude photos for body type comparisons, which seems the main point. Sounds improbable enough, I’d guess. Worth considering ethical implications.
- John Scalzi at Whatever watches twitter erupt after a noted writer urges erstwhile authors to quit day jobs and focus on making their dreams come true before it’s too late. John analyzes the logic of the argument.
- A sad note from Margaret and Helen. Helen delivers a short, moving tribute to Margaret’s husband Howard. Makes us wish we knew him.