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Art of
…Artist Steve Ditko, who co-created Spider-Man and Doctor Strange with Stan Lee, has died at age 90.… found dead in his apartment on June 29 and it is believed he died about two days earlier.…
Links to various articles about Ditko
2:45pm CDT Tue 2018 Jul 10 :MW
…Steve Ditko… encomiums… bubbled up across the usual social media platforms… reactions tended to focus on various, discrete, highly specific aspects of his legacy… Me, though? I thought of his sparkles.…
2:32pm CDT Tue 2018 Jul 10 :MW
Theory of Justice
President Trump pardoned ranchers Dwight and Steven Hammond, a father and son who were effectively political prisoners under the behemoth, politicized Bureau of Land Management.…
I've never known a President to wield the pardon power with such surgical precision and understanding of the worth of the pardon.
2:20pm CDT Tue 2018 Jul 10 :MW
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Breitbart is Here
…The big story this Tuesday is President Trump's second pick for a seat on the SCOTUS, Brett Kavanaugh. From our side, there has been some trepidation about his record and beliefs, although judging by reactions from conservative circles, the reaction has been nothing but positives and praise for the President. From the other side, the reaction has been a vast wave of epithets, rants, obscenities, theatrics and rhetoric heaped upon the President, conservatives, his supporters and especially Judge [ XX ] who will keep women and blacks in chains and toss little brown babies into the gas chambers.…
JJ is up early to bring the news. The Blog-Heaper links to it not so early, but eventually.
8:38pm CDT Tue 2018 Jul 10 :MW