- As impeachment lights up the night sky, Max’s Dad points to some important developments we’re missing here on the ground.
- So my president has admitted to siphoning off charity funds to pay business debts and has settled the case brought by the state of New York by paying $2 million dollars to 8 charities. Our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit looks into the case and asks us to draw the obvious conclusion.
- driftglass scripts out a dialogue to illustrate why impeachable offenses that number in some multiple of ten gets reduced to two, and why a lost cause can be worthy of the fight.
- Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger explains his choice as most dangerous politician in America. Any guesses?
- The standard, though not universal, response from Senate Republicans who want to dodge discussion about Trump has been that they are potential jurors and therefore shouldn’t comment. tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors watches Mitch McConnell vow to coordinate the Impeachment trial with my President. Mitch boasts in advance that no Republican Senator will vote for guilt on anything at all. tengrain reposts a comment: What a country! In America, the jury tampers itself!
- Those repetitive low-logic tweets get tiresome quickly enough for most of us to ignore them. But News Corpse journeys through TrumpTwitter Land to analyze a developing pattern of panic and meltdown over impeachment.
- Vixen Strangely at Strangely Blogged munches popcorn and watches as boomer Trump and child-hero Thunberg briefly skirmish-by-Twitter, with the young climate activist winning in a landslide. Something to do with Trump anger over Time’s Person of the Year.
- Ant Farmer’s Almanac covers the partisan resolution as House and Senate Republicans jointly proclaim their congratulations to President Trump for being named Time Magazine’s Person of the Year. Reports from mainstream media that Time selected someone else are dismissed as biased.
- Andy Borowitz is there as Trump is named Person of the Year by Popular Sociopath Magazine.
- At The Onion, Fox News condemns 2020 election as a partisan witch hunt orchestrated by Democrats to unseat the president.
- Jonathan Bernstein sees a future in which impeaching the President, any President, will become normal and suggests we develop new norms and rules to govern the process.
- Dave Dubya argues for progressivism in the Democratic Party. Main thrust: by compromising on basic democratic rights, we would compromise away our democracy.
- Wisconsin conservative James Wigderson blows a gasket as the Democratic governor refers to the Capitol Holiday Tree rather than the more Christian-centric Christmas Tree. I dunno. Does Jesus lead us to anger about his birthday tree or about ripping little kids from the arms of their parents and putting them into cages? I’ll ask the pastor where I worship. Maybe James should do the same.
- nojo looks for analogous times with which our own may rhyme. He rejects the Weimar Republic that preceded Hitler, and settles on the United States circa 1860. Conservatives have not chosen and may not choose a complete rejection of democracy in favor of force of arms. But some have demonstrated that they are capable of that course.
- M. Bouffant at Web of Evil seems mildly amused as some conservatives propose that prominent law enforcement and political figures be publicly executed.
- Green Eagle looks into accounts from South America of evangelical Christian extremist violence, including armed hunts for non-Christians, and suggests a possible future of evangelical America.
- Infidel753 goes to Mark Twain for one of the most interesting arguments against my own faith. Christianity has adapted to modern scientific discoveries through creative reinterpretation, but the original flawed texts remain. And so does the tortuous history that flowed from them. One more significant note: Infidel will be dropping out of blogosphere for an indeterminate time because of a major personal event. Here’s hoping this important voice is not silent for long.
- North Carolina pastor John Pavlovitz has to make the same old defense against the same tired old accusation. No, conservatives, opposing hateful people does not make us hateful.
- The Propaganda Professor takes a look at the recent attack at the Pensacola naval base. Three service personnel were killed. A Navy airman, an American Muslim, died trying to stop the gunman, a Saudi Muslim. Guess whose religion is played up in media coverage.
- Joe Hagstrom, in MadMikesAmerica, recognizes top professional golfer Rory McIlroy for not playing in a high-paying tournament in Saudi Arabia. He responds to a critic who snipes that the one golfer boycott is less than heroic, going back to regrets expressed by Yogi Berra about segregation times.
- In The Life and Times of Bruce Gerencser, Bruce has a reasoned, passionate opinion on whether parents who are atheists should lie to their children about death.
- If Scottie at Scotties Toy Box is correct, an ex-boyfriend got police to help him break into his ex-girlfriend’s house, surprise her sleeping in bed, shoot her, then charge her with multiple felonies. She apparently woke without her glasses, saw multiple male figures in her room, and reached for a gun. I dunno. Doesn’t seem right.
- PZ Myers is getting impatient with the demographic fashion trend of grouping us all into distinct generations for political and other opinions. Like dumping us boomers who loath my president into the same bucket of boomer Trumpsters. How about grouping us by Presidential administration? Don’t OK Boomer! me. Think of me as Trumanesque.
- The Journal of Improbable Research discovers a study on the unreliability of our rulers: the kind that measure things.
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