Dishonesty at Fox News
When Fox News agreed to pay $787 million to settle a defamation lawsuit brought by Dominion Voting systems, one might have thought that the good old days of deliberate lying on the air had come to a close.
Not so.
Pope Francis, Humanitarian
It’s been a while since I mentioned that Pope Francis is a fabulous humanitarian.
Until he came along, the Catholic Church had held essentially no position that sought to improve the social and material aspects of people’s lives. The shift in perspective that the Pope has brought to the world has been jaw-dropping.
Most Recent Assassination Attempt Raises an Interesting Question
A reader sent me this, which was interesting because I was having the same thought.
One of the things that makes high-profile people so hard to assassinate is that most of what they do when they’re in difficult-to-protect locations is the result of last-minute decisions that are not made public.
Is it possible that a mole tipped off the shooter?
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What Needs to Happen to Trump
The meme here came from a reader.
I agree with this, except to note that there are liberals who hope Trump dies, whether via heart attack, plane crash, assassination, etc.
I point out that this will only make him a martyr among the MAGA base, and do little if anything to repudiate the idea that America needs to be led by a sociopathic dictator.
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A Lesson for Trump from Machiavelli
Which is a more effective tool for an absolute ruler to maintain power: force or deception?
Niccolo Machiavelli’s idea on the subject is presented here, but if you’re Donald Trump, you choose both. When he lost the election in 2020, he both incited a violent insurrection and conspired with 18 members of his staff to reach out to state government officials and overturn the results.
Marxism / Socialism
The meme here comes from a reader. Two comments:
1) Most people regard Trump’s $4 trillion in tax cuts for the rich as a “redistribution.”
2) The U.S. is the only developed country on Earth that doesn’t offer its citizens universal healthcare and other features of democratic socialism.
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Good Marketing Requires Appealing Product Names
Here’s a water filtration product called “Cloud.”
I would guess that most people looking for something to perform this function do not want their water cloudy.
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Moms for Liberty
At left is a photo of North Carolina “Moms for Liberty” chapter vice president, arrested for her involvement on January 6th.Why the long face? Sure, you may be going to prison, but you’ll be going away for things in which you sincerely believe, first of all that all Trump supporters needed to attack the U.S. Capitol and “fight like hell.”
Your other beliefs include fighting for book burning, and against school curricula that mention LGBT rights, race and ethnicity, critical race theory, and discrimination.
Most Americans are hoping that, by the time you get out of prison, that this nation will be a kinder and better informed place than it is now.
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Reaching Out to the Mythical Undecided Voter
The cartoon here illustrates why appealing to undecided voters is folly: virtually none of them exist.
Of course, it’s possible that someone right across the street from me is thinking, “OK, Trump is a sociopathic criminal who will become the first American dictator, but Harris is a Democrat. Hmmm.”
Possible, yet extremely unlikely.
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Why Is There Suffering?
The author of the meme here poses an excellent question. And at least a partial answer is this: we’re not omnipotent.
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