We Need Memorial Day to Obscure the Unbearable Truth About War by Jon Schwarz, The Intercept 2017-05-29T12:38:08+00:00 (I)f you spend time with the dead from the Civil War and the Boxer Rebellion and Iwo Jima and Apollo 1, you’ll also find yourself asking larger questions. Every time I’ve gone there (Arlington), as I’ve looked out …
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May 29 2017
Across the Pond
No, not Amelia who I was surprised to learn has moved into the Marvelverse as Nebula. To be fair there’s a lot of makeup but I should have been paying closer attention. This is a take on the state of play in the snap British Parliamentary elections. Should even a middle case scenario of losses …
May 28 2017
Assault… AND Battery (Not Quite A Rant)
Not the cannon or electrical kind this time. English is my first language, also my second and third. Battery is a criminal offense involving the unlawful physical acting upon a threat, distinct from assault which is the act of creating apprehension of such contact.
May 23 2017
Katahdin Woods
This should be a feel good story, but… The family that makes Burt’s Bees Lip Balm (they may make other things, that’s what I know them for), the St Clairs, took some of their money and started buying up land that had been logged over to the point that the Lumber Companies didn’t want it …
May 23 2017
Zombie Lie-berman
It has been my great displeasure to meet Joe Lie-berman in person on several occasions. He is the smarmiest, oiliest, limp handshaked, cheat, con artist and dissimulator I’ve ever been in proximity to, even for a politician. I never left an encounter without wanting to shower with a Brillo Pad. He’s petty and vindictive, in …
May 22 2017
Gleiwitz
On the night of August 31st – September 1st, 1939 Nazis (real actual factual members of the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei) took several concentration camp prisoners and one Silesian farmer with pro-Polish sympathies arrested the day before and murdered them after a short broadcast in Polish to make it appear as if there had been a …
May 21 2017
Litterbox Liner
So TMC has kitties. I’m sure this shocking revelation surprises only our most casual readers. Now kitties are wonderful companions and those who claim that they don’t show affection or are untrainable don’t know them very well, though it is fair to say that if they were bigger they would eat you. One of the …
May 20 2017
Get your score cards!
Can’t tell the players without a score card! This summary is extensively re-written but it’s based on Recapping a stunningly bad two weeks for the Trump White House by Philip Bump of the Washington Post. 12 Days In May Monday, May 8– Former acting attorney general Sally Yates testifies before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee that …
May 19 2017
The Master and The Student
Stockton– Richard Nixon is gone now, and I am poorer for it. He was the real thing — a political monster straight out of Grendel and a very dangerous enemy. He could shake your hand and stab you in the back at the same time. He lied to his friends and betrayed the trust of …
May 18 2017
Beware The ‘Gifts’ Of The Jinn
Otherwise known as Genies your wish, as they say, is their command. The results are seldom satisfying and often self destructive. This piece has some “category errors” (h/t Lambert). The Institutional Democratic Party is hardly any definition of “progressive” and certainly is not representative of “The Left”. There is apparently little or no interest at …
May 18 2017
Brazil Part 2
It’s a metaphor. Brazil Sinks Deeper Into Political Crisis by Rachel Gamarski, Simone Preissler Iglesias, and Samy Adghirni, Bloomberg News May 18, 2017, 12:50 PM EDT Brazil’s political crisis deepened on Thursday as government allies began openly discussing scenarios for the replacement of embattled President Michel Temer. Brazilians watched in shock as federal police carried …