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1. about 9 hours ago on Clay Bennett

   This is the primary canvas; so the choice is not quite so stark. Braun is almost sure to win anyway. I concur with your other point, however. Also, I get plenty of junk mail from the GOP as it is. Taking the GOP primary ballot is not taking the same step as joining the party.

2. about 11 hours ago on Mike du Jour

   Lester’s sense of humor is recovering! Hooray!

3. about 11 hours ago on Clay Jones

   Make America A Schitzhole Again.

4. about 12 hours ago on Clay Bennett

   Indiana’s (closed) primary is this Tuesday. I’m pondering whether or not to select the GOP ballot. The reasons for this are that Braun is s-o-o-o bad of a politician, and that there is no chance that a Democrat will win any state wide office. Hence the two parties in Indiana are GOP and Irrelevant. Therefore, the only viable way to vote AGAINST Braun is to cast a vote FOR one of the GOP alternatives. Braun will win of course. He has more money — which is the only and essential way a candidate can have a chance to win. He also has the required stupidity and incompetence which fit to a nicety the preferences of the GOP super-majority electorate here in the Hoosier state.

5. 1 day ago on Clay Jones

   Mitch Daniels’ stock dropped today. (Daniels was governor of Indiana and is president of Purdue.) He expressed appalling opinions of how to deal with these protests, the same sort of attitude that led to Kent State. I have always disagreed with Daniels politics. None the less, he seemed to be a competent administrator for the university. I have, until today, considered him a thoughtful, intelligent man. I even thought that his presence in a US presidential campaign would have elevated the process above its usual nauseating nadir. But this article today in the Indy Star reversed all the positive aspects of my opinion; Daniels is nothing more that a grumpy old man who, besides knowing the cost of everything and the value of nothing, is now putting forward failed policies of the past as a way to deal with protests of the present.

6. 1 day ago on Clay Jones

   May 4th 1970.

7. 1 day ago on FoxTrot Classics

   Vinegar for leafy greens such as collards and kale. Salt for both.

8. 1 day ago on Clay Jones

   Thanks for the correction. The 4 violations are “new” ones.

9. 1 day ago on Michael Ramirez

   re: “The problems of other counties’ IS NOT OUR PROBLEM!”

   Precisely why this clause appeared in my comment: "Nothing in the US’s bag of legislative tricks will accomplish a single one of those goals in other nations … ". One should not ignore the fact that some of the US’s policies and actions have enabled or caused some of the problems in other countries, and in some way part of the influx of immigrants and asylum seekers is a predictable consequence.

10. 2 days ago on Mike du Jour

    This, at least, would seem to relieve NPR# (or maybe in a larger sense, the CPB) of the charges that it is rife with liberals on the one hand, and too “white” on the other. My conclusion remains that this week’s (got the apostrophe in there this time) cartoons have been a total loss, at least when compared to other examples of multi-cartoon, single theme offerings.

    (#) I’m of the notion that some NPR programs, other than news programs, have a liberal bias. Is there any public or private information/entertainment organ that doesn’t have a cultural or political leaning one way or the other? I doubt it. The issue here is whether or not NPR keeps, in its news programs, a pretty clear and distinct wall between opinion and news. This seems to be the case as regards NPR, and it seems to be much less so as regards Fox (which conflates news with its conservative opinion bias), for example, and, perhaps, other entities which depend wholly on advertising and corporate money for their existence, be they liberal or conservative. Some few years ago, NPR’s 1A had a representative from Fox on the program at pretty regular intervals; for the Friday Roundups, I think. So there’s that fact to consider, too. I don’t know that Fox has ever given equal time and equal respect to any “liberal” representative. I guess there used to be a token liberal present once in a while to be treated as a 3rd banana.