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i changed "puts their child down" to "sets their child down" in the first panel: such is my commitment to not leading you down incorrect garden path sentences!

http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=4187
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Wed, 01/05/2024 - 17:00
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Machines and tools

https://crookedtimber.org/2024/05/01/52657/
Created
Wed, 01/05/2024 - 15:52
It’s International Workers Day, still celebrated as the May Day public holiday here in Queensland, at least when the Labor party is in office. So, it’s a good day for me to set out some tentative thoughts on work and its future. Via Matt McManus, I found this quote from Marx ‘Fragment on Machines”. The […]

The Kennedy Effect

https://digbysblog.net/2024/04/30/the-kennedy-effect/
Created
Wed, 01/05/2024 - 08:00
It’s the vaccines Trump has downplayed his role in the vaccines ever since that incident even though he is dying to take credit for them. He impulsively waded into this again after the State of the Union address and it didn’t go well at all: All hell broke loose: It went on and on and on. There is obviously a group of anti-vax MAGAs who feel so strongly about this they are even willing to defy Dear Leader. Aaron Blake at the Washington Post reports on a new poll about this question: A Monmouth University poll Monday initially asked voters whether they would consider voting for Kennedy. Democrats were slightly more likely than Republicans to say they were. But then the poll asked people whether they were aware that Kennedy “claims that autism is linked to vaccines” and that he has floated a theory that covid was targeted at certain races. (Neither claim is based in fact.) About half of Republicans said they were aware of this; about 6 in 10 Democrats said they were.

He’s Soooo Tired

https://digbysblog.net/2024/04/30/hes-soooo-tired/
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Wed, 01/05/2024 - 06:30
“Trump appears to have fallen asleep while listening to testimony — at times appearing to stir and then falling back to sleep. Trump’s eyes were closed for extended periods and his head has at times jerked in a way consistent with sleeping.” Meanwhile, Trump’s lawyers, at his instruction no doubt, refused to stipulate that certain tapes and testimony are admissible. So this is what the prosecution had to do: They had to get the owner of the transcription service in the Carroll trial to testify too. Here’s one of the CSPAN tapes they want admitted. If this trial proves nothing else it shows his performative lies in living color. Just look at how adamantly he denies knowing these women. The trial proves he did.