Good morning. Monday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 74. Sunrise is 5:29 AM and sunset 8:12 PM for 14h 42m 29s of daytime. The moon is full with 99.8% of its visible disk illuminated. wp-svg-icons icon=”checkbox-partial” wrap=”I”] Whitewater’s Library Board meets at 6:30 PM. On this day in 1868, the United States Senate fails…
Sloth
Kakistocracy, Seven Deadly, Sloth, Trump, Unfit
Impotus Americanus
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Bigotry, Sloth
The Villages as a Dystopian America
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Much has been made – understandably – about an elderly golf-cart-riding resident of The Villages retirement community shouting ‘white power’ during a pro-Trump parade. (The man’s bigotry is wrong, but his grasp of the meaning of Trumpism is right on target.) It’s impossible to excuse the bigotry, but one can look at other vices within…
Authoritarianism, Bigotry, Conway, Ethics, Gluttony, Grifters, Impeachment, Kakistocracy, Medicine, Mendacity, Nepotism, Never Trump, Official Misconduct, Sloth, Trump, Trump-Russia, Unfit
Trump’s Condition: Unfit by Many Standards
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It’s enough, as an indictment of Trump, to see and then reject his role on purely political grounds: a bigoted autocrat of limited knowledge & reasoning ability with a love of foreign dictators and contempt for American liberal democracy. One doesn’t need a training in medicine to reject Trump. There are, however, compelling critiques of…
Coronavirus, Public Health, Sloth, Trump
Trump Played Golf
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Coronavirus, Mendacity, Public Health, Sloth, Trump, Unfit
Trump’s Coronavirus Calendar
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Coronavirus, Mendacity, Public Health, Sloth, Trump, Unfit
Failed to Act
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Culture, Politics, Sloth, Television
Preparedness
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Chris Matthews of MSNBC resigned (was pushed out, truly) on Monday night. Much has been made – rightly – of how his comments about his female guests made him unsuitable for his role. In the Washington Post, Margaret Sullivan raises a second objection, worth considering, to Matthews’s work: he was too-often unprepared. Sullivan writes that…