- Vixen Strangely at Strangely Blogged watches as a legislative witness, testifying in Pennsylvania, tries to demonstrate that vaccines magnetize the human body.
There has been some mirth on the internet over this. - CATO Institute’s Julian Sanchez analyzes the newest preferred target of anti-VAXers to decide whether vaccine passports are Orwellian infringements, or simply a combination of good business, good health, free association, and common sense. Okay, so we can guess where he goes on this.
- Then it gets serious. North Carolina pastor John Pavlovitz hears from a woman who lost her mother to COVID but has had no opportunity to truly mourn. He contemplates the impossibility, until postponed grief has been fulfilled and suspended loss acknowledged, of going back to normality.
- Pretty much everyone has seen video of a Republican Congressional Representative denying that any insurrection even happened. Just a bunch of tourists says he. Then a photo of that same Repub Rep emerges showing him screaming in panic and hiding behind a police officer as the Jan 6 mob approaches.
At The Moderate Voice, Dorian de Wind notes a remarkable chance encounter between that same Rep Rep insurrection denier and one of those officers who was injured saving sorry posterior of said Rep Rep and other deniers. If you haven’t seen the story already, you are allowed to guess who refused a friendly handshake.
- Republican representative Andrew Clyde notwithstanding, Frances Langum produces new bodycam footage showing a clear Jan 6 deficit of harmless tourists. Who would have thought?
- Our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit finds yet another reason the FBI is able to identify so many Jan. 6 insurrectionists for arrest. Has to do with very poor internet reception in the Capitol Building.
- Iron Knee at Political Irony illustrates the four groups who most apparently participated in the Jan 6 mob attack.
- Ever wish insurrection supporting office holders would just go away? Me too. But we have to support their right to holler fire in a crowded theatre, right? Scotties Toy Box says that there is that little bit in the Constitution contained in the 14th Amendment. Hmmmm.
- Nojo goes poetic with the best set of verses I’ve seen this week: an ode to Joe Manchin.
- You gonna believe mere videos when the Lord speaks something else? News Corpse observes as Kayleigh McKEnany proves that she never ever lied while serving as Trump Press Sec. Proof of truth is simple. She couldn’t possibly have told a falsehood because she is a person of faith. So close your eyes and check no further, folks. The issue is settled.
- @momwino98 does a sort of Sarah Cooper type thing, miming an angry voice: Damn right I’m lookin’ at you!. Hard to say whether it’s our once-upon-a president Trump, though. [Okay, maybe it isn’t] We’re fair and unbalanced here, so take a listen. We report, you decide.
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On the other hand, it could just be TikTok sensation Parker James.
Nah! I’ll stick with Donald Trump. - Oh for the love of all God’s homemade biscuits! No, Trump did not have his pants on backwards at a rally. Green Eagle takes a look at the fake photoshop controversy and suggests a more important implication.
- Tommy Christopher reads a book and discovers that once-upon-a-president Trump got very angry at the Blacks. Seems the Blacks are guilty of ingratitude. After all, he was talked out of following his instincts. He did not order troops to stomp all over demonstrators after the George Floyd murder.
And they are unappreciative, after all that?
- Wisconsin conservative James Wigderson is unimpressed with 2020 election conspiracy theories. I can tell, reading between the lines, when he laments a world where the Republican Party has gone mad. Then he does go on to document the madness.
- driftglass looks into why the definition of Marxist has morphed into whatever I don’t like.
- Assuming you’re a patriot, you want to hear a nationally known Republican say something to make your blood boil? tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors easily finds one gloating about the Viet Cong killing US Marines.
- What is there about Florida Republicans? First there’s the sex traffic jam. Now, in Hackwhackers, Republicans are going full Godfather-type hit squads.
Assassination teams? Really? And there are tapes!
Okay, Carlo. Today I settle all family business, so don’t tell me you’re innocent.
Almost like Republicans don’t want voters deciding who wins.
- Do you believe in the saying “when guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns”? Libertarian Michael A. LaFerrara gets asked that dopey question, and finds a way to answer it respectfully, even through his answer is, essentially, Duh!
Even bumper-sticker logicians know the point is not that the proposition is true, but that it is relevant. Do we want only outlaws to have guns?
Interestingly, I have never heard a political figure advocate outlawing guns.
On the other hand, if hand grenades on airplanes are outlawed, only outlaws will carry hand grenades onto planes.
Or, if AR-15 assault rifles are outlawed only outlaws will be able to fire 10 rounds per second into a crowd.
- CalicoJack in The Psy of Life digs through the data, and develops a pretty good idea who is behind our increase in violent crime.
- Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger explains how racism here in the United States is used by dictators around the world to justify their own atrocities.
My own opinion? It’s shamefully indecent that foreign dictators would stoop to parroting the Fox network and the Republican Party.
- Oh BUSTED! Ted Cruz sees right through us, and Andy Borowitz is on it. Senator Cruz calls Obamacare a Democrat plot to keep people alive so they can vote. Ruthless bastards!
- On their weekly podcast, Imani Gandy and Jessica Mason Pieklo of Rewire News Group talk about a Texas scheme to let any citizen file charges accusing a woman of exercising abortion rights by causing her own miscarriage. So now your racist uncle can have a new hobby. Read or listen: your freedom of choice – a podcast or a transcript.
- The Propaganda Professor delves deep into reliable indicators of bias in liberal media.
- As the United States flows toward the inevitable majority-minority point at which non-Whites outnumber Whites, conservatives react in fear, and those of us on the left welcome history with open hands and extended arms. Infidel753 looks at the data and explains that the majority-minority shift is not going to happen.
- Nan’s Notebook looks at how a high number of states with a low number of residents manage to dominate the country, and suggests – not exactly divorce – but maybe a sort of partial trial separation.
- At The Onion, the CEO of a troubled company acknowledges his mistakes and accepts full compensation for them. Are we sure this is parody?
- M. Bouffant at Web of Evil is a bit put out by stories of repeated rape at a California private boarding school.
Links go to a few details of the school’s internal investigation. Did you enjoy sex with your teacher?
And to an eventual report that actually termed the rape of one student as an unfortunate involvement with a faculty member.
Other people in addition to the rapist really ought to go to prison.
- In The Life and Times of Bruce Gerencser, Bruce has a profound personal reason to contemplate disability, death, and giving in.
- Vagabond Scholar mourns the death of a favorite blogger, known for his thoughtful, humane posts.
- John Scalzi at Whatever suggests that technology has subtly but profoundly changed how we communicate.
- PZ Myers finds a book of offensive words, exploring their history, how they evolved, and why they are offensive.
I’m happy to see that elderly is considered an honorific. Apparently, I can be considered one of society’s elders.
Taking a break from reading and writing to hobble about in an effort to strut.
- With some help from TikTok’s SlayerPrince, Sarah Cooper provides apt illustrations of all the stages of mental Health
- Michael John Scott, in MadMikesAmerica, encounters aggressively rude clerks and managers in a large retail outlet and receives a lesson in striking back.
Note: My experience is that nearly all rudeness comes from customers, and it doesn’t hurt to say a kind word where possible.
That said, three cheers for Michael!
Aw hell, we’ve got time!
Make that thirty cheers!
- In Letters from an American, Heather Cox Richardson begins with mention of a security guard who made national history decades ago, then covers what will make this week exceptional: weird but significant events for future history texts.
- You should never be afraid of something you have never had to experience, right? Reductress points to an example: a woman who is afraid of serial killers even though she has never experienced slow systemic death.
- Well, now we know. The Journal of Improbable Research brings us a study from Germany’s University of Bonn pretty much proving that beer mats are a poor substitute for frisbees.
- Ant Farmer’s Almanac guides us to the answers of some troubling questions about Disney’s Goofy.
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Glad you’re back. Hope you are well.
Howdy y’all!
Good to see you’re back in the saddle and slinging snark again. We missed you last week.
Loved the Elie Mystal magnetic key trick trolling the testifying nurse’s magic key trick. “Explain this to me,” she pleaded. I’m surprised no one did and suggested that she practiced a bit more in the Congressional bathroom mirror before coming on stage with her little magic act. In the immortal words of Bugs Bunny, “What a maroon!”
Huzzah!
Jack