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I think I've cut my typo rate down a full .08 percent. Woo-hoo! (I maintain the typographical errors as some sort of charming artfulness.)

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â€œDemocrats have become the party of crime,â€ President Donald Trump declared on Thursday night at a rally in Missoula, Montana. At the same rally, Trump praised as â€œmy kind of guyâ€ a member of Congress who violently attacked a reporter, choked him, and then lied to the police about his crime.

Was this right wing anti-antifa cause celebre really a “9/11 widow”?

Here comes Maine’s ranked choice elections.

The Saudis use Skype.

Dolly Parton did a what now?

Noam Chomsky compares Trump to Hitler… unflatteringly.Â And with an asterisk indicating maybe he didn’t.

The Saudi Cover-up is real.

Sexual Assault… partisanship… screwed.

High School Girls Admitted to Making False Sexual Assault Accusations Against a Male Student Because They â€˜Just Donâ€™t Like Himâ€™Â … but that never happens, ever.

Murray Sabrin and his New Jersey senate run.

Is this Cannibalism?

Teen Vogue’s efforts to end Capitalism

Comedy in the age where we’ve decided nothing is funny anymore.
Comments are worth reading.
Social Credit Ratings… China’s and our’s.

Idaho politics.

U.S. Knew of Saudi Plan to Seize Missing Journalist, Post Says.

An oral history of Trump’s 2000 run for president.Â Which we’re now obliged to know for the sake of presidential history.

The botched sting operation from phony communists.

Banned from facebook in its latest “not real” sweep.

West Virginia supreme court justice found guilty on 11 of 22 charges.

Accidental closed caption praises British princesses’s fine breasts

On black men’s support of Kavanaugh — poses some odd questions about “identity politics” as I’ll skewerly define it.

That feminist battle against “man-spreading” on public transit in Russia?Â Fake news.Â Russian disinformation.

George Soros?

… as opposed to the big International money behindÂ Brazil’s next strongman?

Good to know the rape culture in dog parks study is a farce.

The story of Theodore Roosevelt’s possible suicide

assessing Putin’s real standing in Russia, and the looming “and next?” question

No, the “NAFTA 2” didn’t really help Trump in the mid-terms, but it did in the re-election… (covering the swingiest part of his bases of his coalition) … which, as of now, I think Trump will win.

jobs better stoned.

How Rocky De La Fuente’s nine 2018 political campaigns went

The perils of facebook moderation

Houston tries to ban robot brothels

Andy Richter getting in front of a scandal.

Sweden has an “Advertising Ombudsman” which has declared a common internet image placed in advertisements as sexist.
… As twitter bothers with definitions of “dehumanizing” language, it is worth pointing out… the image is very human.

In Russia…Â Woman assaults men for “man-spreading” on public transit.Â Image here poses the question:Â Even supposing some level of sympathy… THESE PARTICULAR MEN ARE NOT keeping a seat out of someone’s butt.

Recalling Kamala Harris’s mendacious performance in the Kavanaugh hearings.

Bulgaria and current male neurosis in the wake of the metoo moment:Â This is one “ends justify the sordid means” thought.

Will North Korea take over South Korea?

How gun politics are playing out in the Tennessee Senate race

Ron Paul endorses Chris McDaniel in Mississippi (because of course), propping the question… does Ron Paul have any juice?

Holding the nose in New Jersey for Menendez…

Kevin Cramer doubles down in North Dakota on Kavanaugh, to beat Heidi Heitkamp… and, the Nation is probably right — vote no and move to other issues.

Ed Whelan and the history of his crackpot defense of Kavanaugh…. how he lost Ben Shapiro.
… to the comments section here — “With Friends like this, who needs enemies?”Â (see too the inestimable inevitable Trump tweet, ’cause the man can’t help himself.)

Cameron Kasky leaves “March for Our Lives” gun control advocacy group and has his regrets.Â Disagrees with tactics, not necessarily aims.Â Meanwhile, David Hogg out in Canada embarrassing himself.

That damnable “Handmaid’s Tale” Halloween costume.Â (It takes a bit to get to the bikini variation on this “Sexy Indentured Manual Servantâ€.
An upsetting dystopian future has emerged where women no longer have a say. However, we say be bold and speak your mind in this exclusive Brave Red Maiden costume.
Worth musing that it exploits women in the opposite manner than the book / show.

Haircut wars

Okay.Â One:Â How is Juno in the “teen sex comedy” genre?Â And, two, it’s fascinating to see Chris Elliott identified with “Cabin Boy”.

On this Alex Jones swipe piece:Â “John McCain is the leader of the Democratic Party” and “Robert Mueller is a demon” are (if partisan) “fair” commentary.Â The “Gummint controls the weather” line is so old it croaks…

Digesting what the heck facebook did with the “Walk Away” movement leader’s account.

a brief for the late Playboy…

Climate change battles in history

Egyptian media declares:Â Â Hitler?Â Â Even Hitler who represented the uttermost discrimination and aggression didnâ€™t reach this level of political and moral decay reached by the new Hitler now on the throne of authority in the United States.Â Uh huh.

Great Britain city urges everyone to report anything, even non crimes, they see online that’s… hateful.
… which, you know, is going to really defeat that 4 out of 10.

Actually, Trump’s brusqueness in the face of the Hurricane may just be the point where it serves him best.Â The only one.

Russia regulated dueling

Voting on bunches of bills at once

Weirdly enough, the two Mississippi senate races are getting some media attention.Â Why James Carville is bothering with this one, I don’t know.Â Why George Will is giving Mike Espy a chance, I don’t know.

Remembering Europe as a precursor to America and the Politics of Hell.Â Â Poland on the eve of the milenial.

What the Hell has happened to disinfo.com?
As of August 31, 2018, the Disinfo.com website was inactive. While the Disinformation Company Ltd. was still listed as the owner, all content was deleted and the domain was for sale.

Joe Manchin does that gun ad thing again, this time to a conservative progressive cause (pro health care) instead of a conservative conservative one (anti cap and trade).Â NRA gives him a D rating.

How to Murder Your Husband.Â Wasn’t this the premise of that Glen Close movie?

The silly season of the Texas senate race between Ted Cruz and Beto O’Rourke.

Why was the guy sitting behind Trump removed?

The history of the term “Resistance“.

I am reminded by an 80s Jay Leno on Mort Sahl versus Lenny Bruce when I see this.

Iran’s political fall-out over the Nuclear deal pull-out

Scott Lively’s 36 percent

One thought: Alex Jones is in America, where there are too many crazy people with guns.

Christopher Lasch and the Digital Return of Memory

The neo-nazi robocalls striking Iowa and Florida… and I have no idea what they are supposed to mean.

Interview with Brett Easton EllisÂ

Oregon Construction Company sued for requiring Bible Lesson