NEW Improved Monday Open Thread: August 6 is the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Ceremony
Submitted by enhydra lutris on Mon, 08/06/2018 - 5:00am
August 6 is the 218th day of the year; as well as Pungenday, Confusion 72, 3184 YOLD to discordians.
Diaries
So now even Markos embraces socialism
Submitted by gjohnsit on Sun, 08/05/2018 - 3:49pmSo Markos says he wants us to have a debate about socialism.
This is coming from a guy who banned democratic socialists from debating the Democratic primaries in mid-March.
I'm starting to think that "socialism" has become a fad among some Democrats.
Who's up for some Liar's Poker?
Submitted by EdMass on Sun, 08/05/2018 - 3:05pmFor those not familiar
Now the bet. Did the "opposition" actually attempt to assassinate Maduro? The outgoing Columbian President? The Gubmint of the USA and it's CIA? Who?
Trump is not good for the GOP
Submitted by gjohnsit on Sun, 08/05/2018 - 1:55pmPresident Trump's approval rating with Republicans has never been higher.
While that appears to be a good thing for Republicans at face value, it is in fact a sign of weakness.
Looking for love, in all the wrong places
Submitted by earthling1 on Sun, 08/05/2018 - 12:11pmThe Patriot Prayer Parade was held yesterday in Portland, Oregon to much hype by the MSM. After a week of drumming for violence between the group headed by Joey Gibson and opposition protesters, what the MSM are now calling Antifa, pronouncing it ann-tee-fa, the event was relatively peaceful. The talking heads, nationwide, have been ordered to downplay the fascist edge to Antifa by a simple change in diction. Even ABC World News has received the memo.
The Logos of Achilles
Submitted by detroitmechworks on Sun, 08/05/2018 - 8:25amMy lovers dead or taken as secondary prizes,
And what am I given to slate my rage?
I am not to fight against those that have done me harm
instead I am to strike the enemy of my tormentor.
With shield forged for sole purpose of ensuring
that I struck deadly upon the honorable protector
And in return I would suffer no wound to still the blood
no mark of spear to end my struggle. No pain to satisfy
The Weekly Watch
Submitted by Lookout on Sun, 08/05/2018 - 7:07am
American Acquisition Disorder
We are a nation of over consumers. It is reflected in our obesity, our waste stream, our debt load, and much more...our need for much more. What brings this to mind is "The World's Longest Yardsale" occurring this weekend. It starts in Gadsden Alabama at the southern end of Lookout Mountain and winds its way to Addison Michigan near Ann Arbor almost 700 miles. The name and the event support my point - it is the world's longest and so must be the best, the greatest, the largest, the mostest. We just can't get enough. Folks we have a problem.
Sunday Open Thread: August 5 is Work Like a Dog Day
Submitted by enhydra lutris on Sun, 08/05/2018 - 5:00amcenter>
and it is also Boomtime, Confusion 71, 3184 YOLD
(for you Discordians out there)
World History this day
The Pope and Sex Abuse: Back to Business as Usual When the U.S. Media Isn’t Looking
Submitted by Betty Clermont on Sun, 08/05/2018 - 3:28amJust this past week, the U.S. media treated Pope Francis as the world’s leading “moral authority.” The New York Times even posted the pope’s declaration that the death penalty is “inadmissible” on its online front page for two days. Yet they, and the rest of the U.S. media, ignored what else happened the past month.
Alligator University Medical School discovers cause of Trump Derangement syndrome
Submitted by Alligator Ed on Sat, 08/04/2018 - 11:26pmPlease pardon my extended absence from the c99 swamp. I promise to make amends for my absence (to which some of you may be replying: "extend your absence further"). I came down with an acute case of writer's block. One of my two twin daughters, Allison or Ellison--I can never tell them apart--summoned help for me, without which this scientific exposition could never have been written.
One of the twins' helpfulness:
