I’m sorry about yesterday. This med still has me pretty wiped out. I slept all morning, and could go right back to bed, if I would let myself. On the plus side, the nerve pain is greatly improved.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 3:36 (average 4:43). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Religious Ecstasy:
Staff Notice:
It appears that Alternet and Crooks and Liars have dropped the plug-in they were using to request embedded articles contain their banner, so until they put it back, we can go back to Creative Commons Attribution.
Since I started compressing graphics we have a new media library to which administrators (and hopefully authors too) can upload graphics. It’s high in the left hand column of the Dashboard. Please leave all graphics compression to me.
Short Takes:
From Daily Kos: Elizabeth Warren was in Columbus, Ohio campaigning with Ted Strickland. If you only have time for a snippet of the speech, you can find one at The New Civil Rights Movement. But the full speech is really worth the 25 [28] minutes.
I’ve said it before. Liz is a national treasure!
From Crooks and Liars: Libertarian Party presidential nominee Gary Johnson stated over the weekend that he was "just grateful that nobody got hurt" by an explosion that injured 29 people in New York City’s Chelsea neighborhood.
During a Sunday interview on CNN, host Brian Stelter asked the candidate to respond to the explosion that left 29 people injured Saturday night.
Barf Bag Alert!!
Duh! He proved with Aleppo that he’s unfit to be President from a foreign policy perspective. This proves the same from a domestic perspective.
From Alternet: …Here’s 11 areas where the differences between Clinton and Trump are poised to take the country in starkly different directions.
1. Will there be a revival of American racism against non-whites? There has not been as openly bigoted, racist and pro-white major party presidential candidate in decades. Trump has modeled a catalogue of racist rants and stereotypes and opened the door to a new era of race-based grievance politics. This is not just about immigration, but start there. He wants to deport 11 million undocumented immigrants. He wants to build a wall along the Mexican border. He doesn’t want millions of “dreamer” children of the migrants, born here, to have a clear path to citizenship. He wants all Muslims to face extra immigration hurdles and encourages racial profiling. In sharp contrast, Clinton opposes all those stances, and wants the opposite—comprehensive immigration reform and embraces multi-cultural America. Yet Trump and his running mate, Indiana Gov. Tim Pence, have dropped the pretense of dog-whistle politics, where white supremacists mouth neutral-sounding platitudes, like embracing ‘state’s rights,’ code for unequal treatment of minorities. They have coddled a spectrum of white supremacists, from klansman David Duke to Trump national convention delegates to far right-wing radio hosts, all of whom feel white America should not adapt to the nation’s growing multiculturalism. Meanwhile, Clinton’s campaign slogan, reflected in her policies, is “Stronger Together.” Which way will the country go?…
I shared one, his extreme racism. Click through for the other ten.
Cartoon:
Every few generations, we Americans are called upon to defend our country. To defend it not so much from foreign dictators or war or terrorism, but from those here who have no commitment to progress or democracy or representative government—no commitment to anything except their own out-of-control minds and the bottomless pits of their egos.
