Philosophy Explained

Heraclitus - You can't eat the same donut twice

Plato - A donut shares its ideal donut-ness with all other donuts

Aristotle - A donut's donut-ness is self-contained

Augustine - A donut must achieve grace to become fully donut

Descartes - The donut hole proves the existence of the donut

Locke - Donuts taste good to me

Hume - Donuts exist because I imagine donuts

Kant - Each donut equals my total donut experience

Wollstonecraft - Women deserve donuts too

Mill - Donuts are good if they make people happy

Kierkegarde - I have faith in the deliciousness of donuts

Marx - Everybody deserves a donut

Nietzsche - Stop at nothing to get your donut

Saussure - Beignet/Krapfen/Ciambella/Buñuelo: they are all equally donut

Wittgenstein - Fried pastry, zero, spare tire, whatever

Beauvoir - White patriarchal domination is responsible for the shape and the self-defeating inadequacy of the donut

Raised Right

It's not so much a dog's poor behavior that bugs the fuck outa me - the dog's being a dog. What grates on the conservative bits of me soul is the human who insists on off-loading some of his responsibility for that dog's behavior onto everybody else. Anybody else actually.

😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊 pic.twitter.com/mC2bsjrbXE

— kittens (@catw2017) April 4, 2017

Your dog is not a fashion accessory. And it's not furniture - it's not part of the decor intended to round out some idiotic fantasy image of American family life.

Have some respect for yourself and for your neighbors and for the dog - take the whole thing seriously enough to make the effort to train the dog properly.

You own the dog. You own the responsibility - all of it.

Today's Tweet

Original boss bitch. pic.twitter.com/iyxIUFzAiw

— Ghost of Mae West 🌻 (@Wyndgrove) April 8, 2017

Tiny Desk (redux)

I posted this one a good while back. It's worth a repeat or 5.

Phox

Set List
Kingfisher
1936
Slow Motion

And some more.

Phox - Phox

We Knew It Goin' In

Yo, suckers -

He told you who he is. And he told you what he intended to do.  We all told you.

Every time he makes an accusation he's confessing.

Everything he brags about is something he feels inadequate about.

Every time he warns us about some dire result, it's either because that's what he's doing now or what he's threatening to punish us with if we don't do what he says.

Classic Daddy State.

The Professional Left

Episode 383: The Joints Chiefs and pudding for 45*

The Professional Left

It's A Loop

Feel what you feel
Deal with what you can deal with
Express it as best you can
Whatever happens next is what happens next
Start again at the top

Today's Tweet

At my moron quota for the month please don't tell me that bright people think for one second that Putin and the altright are angry w Trump

— Louise Mensch (@LouiseMensch) April 7, 2017

WWaDD

Bill Maher last night

Republicanism has become: Looking at any problem and saying, 'What would a dick do?' pic.twitter.com/Po8zmtQ88u

— Bill Maher (@billmaher) April 8, 2017

New Cuts

Leon Bridges

Better Man
Smooth Sailin'
River
Coming Home
Twistin' and Groovin'
There She Goes
Pull Away
So Long

Mississippi Kisses

Or try this link:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsY1I30kjPl9_M0FZGediDR_IHyYPZDBd

Today's Pix

Tiny Desk

Maren Morris

Set List
Rich
I Could Use A Love Song
My Church

Musicians
Maren Morris (vocals, guitar)

Bennett Lewis (guitar, vocals)

Annie Clements (bass, vocals)

Seriously - there's something pretty great about lady bass players

Samantha Bee

Welcome Back, My Friends

...to the show that never ends.

The Nation:

The University of Chicago Stigler Center’s three-day conference asked: “Does America Have a Concentration Problem?” A sufficient response to this could be “go outside.” Virtually every major sector in our economy has been whittled down to a few major players. Two companies produce nearly all of America’s toothpaste. One, Luxottica, produces nearly all the sunglasses. There are four cable and Internet providers, who have divvied up the country and rarely compete. There are four major airlines. There are four major commercial banks. There are four major Internet platforms—Amazon, Facebook, Apple, and Google—controlling your information flow, your data, and your virtual life.

These markets are shrinking further, thanks to a continuing wave of mergers. Bayer is buying Monsanto to control a significant section of the agricultural seed market. AT&T and Time Warner’s combination would tie a content distributor to a content provider. The Walgreens–Rite Aid deal would narrow major chain pharmacies down to two (three if you’re generous and include Walmart). Platform monopolies like Google are buying a firm a week; it’s become a large part of their research-and-development strategy to acquire ideas and market share simultaneously.

And the slide backwards to the 18th century continues.

BTW: Try not to think too hard about the striking similarities between what's happening here right now and what started to happen a few years after the USSR fell apart - in about 1991-92, when Poppy Bush sent his old pal Bob Strauss to teach the Russkies how to retool their economy according to Freddy and Milty's Unfettered Free Market Capitalism.

This mess didn't get all fucked up yesterday and it won't get unfucked by tomorrow.

hat tip = J Gorman

It's Who We Are Now

From deep in Real America, we get the story of another 45* voter, learning that selective thinking can easily end up looking a whole lot like bad karma.

Buzzfeed:

A Mexican man who spent almost two decades living in the United States was deported back to his home country late Tuesday, separating him from his US-born wife, who voted for President Donald Trump.

Roberto Beristain, 43, had been in custody since he was detained on Feb. 6 during a routine check-in with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers. After spending almost two months in detention centers across six states, the Indiana resident was suddenly taken alone to Juarez, Mexico, late Tuesday night, he said in a statement released by his attorneys, who had filed legal petitions requesting his release.
- and -

For many years, ICE agents took no action against Beristain, despite the order of removal against him. As he bought a local restaurant in Granger, Indiana, he checked in annually with officials, and was even able to obtain a driver's license, social security card, and work permit, according to his family.

Under Obama-era directives, ICE had concentrated mainly on deporting criminals and those who posed a threat to public safety. However, following President Trump's signing of an executive order in January on immigration, emboldened ICE agents have been detaining hundreds of undocumented immigrants, including those not charged with any crimes.

Helen Beristain told Indiana Public Media she voted for Trump, believing he would not deport "good people."