This isn’t stupidity. This is marketing. This woman was elected by people so ignorant and hateful they eat stuff like this up with a spoon. She’s in the business of making asinine statements that please morons. It’s her brand. Demand …
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Which Way, America?
The photo here suggests that there is no way out but to back up. Perhaps that’s what we need to do here in the United States. Before the presidential election in 2016 there was no QAnon, condoning of overt racism, …
On Stupidity
I’ve long admired Bonhoeffer, and the punch of this short essay is one of the reasons why. Trumpism as a 21st Century American phenomenon, however, is only partially fueled by stupidity; strangely, there are some very intelligent Trump supporters. And …
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Left-Wing Bias in Academia
We hear a great deal about the supposed liberal bias in American colleges and universities, yet whoever wrote the thoughts at the left here poses an interesting idea: suppose reality is closer aligned to what we think of today as …
Remembering Rush Limbaugh
The Latin “De mortuis nil nisi bene dicendum” translates into English as “Of the dead, let nothing but good be said,” and it’s a generally recognized social protocol. But not so much when incendiary right-wing radio personality Rush Limbaugh passed …
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Kindness Abounds, But Not Everywhere
Indeed, there is extreme polarization in the United States right now when it comes to all things political, yet we’re fortunate that the “Kindness Movement” is a significant part of the American ethos. Of course, not everyone gets this, and …
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What Were We Thinking?
The wheel was invented about 5500 years ago, and travel baggage is several centuries old, so we ponder: why did it take so long for someone to invent wheeled luggage? At left is another idea that should have come along …
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Understanding Free Speech
A conservative reader sent me the meme here, to which I responded: I think what you’re missing here is that there is a difference between “conservative” opinions and language that is intended to incite sedition and violence, and fan the …
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Remembering 9/11
I’m always sad to see memes like this. No one who was over four years old in 2001 will ever forget 9/11, and thus it’s clear that remembering the tragedy isn’t what this is about at all; it’s simply an …
City Commissioner’s Children Threatened
Tweets from Al Schmidt, City Commissioner, responsible for elections and voter registration in Philadelphia: “@LeaderMcConnell. The former POTUS incited supporters to threaten to kill my children and put their “heads on spikes” because we counted votes cast by eligible voters. …
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