Link round-up for 17 March 2019

Various interesting stuff I ran across on the net over the last week.

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How long are those unskippable ads getting these days?

It's time for Jesus!  And the opposition too.

Procrastinating Donkey presents one asshole and eleven funny animals.

Here's how a single washing can keep a mirror clean permanently.

Respected leader.....

Yum!

Blogger Scottie really likes his new desk -- but so do these guys.  Hey, at least they catch mice.

The latest target of wingnut wrath is Girl Scout cookies.

Demons, demons everywhere!

Bad art indeed, unless this is in the White House.  And here's some absolutely godawful art that the current White House might even want.

You could always try praying.

Tumblr is still pulling this bullshit.  And the results are predictable.

The Catholic Church needs new thinking to deal with its priest shortage.

Here's the perfect bookmark for your Trump-signed Bible.

What does "the Ides of March" actually mean, anyway?

Maybe we can get rid of Daylight Savings Time at the state level.

Here's a job-quitting story to savor.

Fast-food restaurants go back a long way.

Don't let them steal our fun stuff.

Here's Trump's budget in one cartoon (found via Scottie).  Stephen Colbert goes into a bit more detail.

Blogger Shelldigger takes an in-depth look at internet trolls.

Maybe that person really does need a wheelchair.

Christianity these days is all about excluding and shunning people (some time ago, I posted about this point here).

This is what the anti-vaxxers' world looks like.

Know what freedom of religion means.

Professor Chaos is finding a lot of bullshit on Twitter.

The wingnut world-view is an Orwellian nightmare.

Maybe teenagers aren't future-oriented enough to vote.

You can't threaten me with something that doesn't exist.

This is not racism (found via Scottie).

He's never thought about the reasons (what an asshole).

Publishers need to learn to ignore mobs of idiots on Twitter.

Here's the kind of thing Planned Parenthood really does.

Someone else's taboos should not dictate the terms of your existence.

Kushner isn't remotely in the same league with this man.

The Catholic Church is morally blind and depraved.

There's no end to the wingnuts' lies and distortions.

Only religion could make a parent do this.

Steven Pinker is widely demonized by people who are wrong about things (I think it's because he brings so much data to prove they're wrong).

I'm for anything that could help abate the plague of noise that has made silence a rare treasure almost everywhere.

Here's one way we know that the megalodon shark is extinct.

See the three political-economic systems.

For Pi Day, Neil deGrasse Tyson discusses Einstein.

One country is an exception to the general economic sluggishness in Europe.

The issue of Catalonian independence isn't dead.

Russians find that stealing territory and becoming a pariah isn't the key to "national greatness" after all.

You may be surprised to learn which country has the world's highest proportion of female airline pilots.

After the murder of 49 Muslims in the recent terrorist attack in New Zealand, this jackass Australian Senator was rightly condemned by almost everyone for saying that the Muslims themselves are the problem.  Yet at a time when anti-Jewish violence is rising all over the world (religious fanatics are even firing missiles at Tel Aviv again), people who should know better are defending a jackass American legislator who spouts hoary old dog-whistles about insidious Jewish influence on our politics.

Katie Schwartz posts some forceful views on the 2020 Democratic Presidential nomination, prompting considerable discussion.

Don't let the Republicans separate themselves from Trump. They've been creeps and thugs for decades.

Both-siderism just gets dumber and dumber.

Must-read political post of the week:  Trump is the champion of those who are tired of needing dog-whistles.

Shower Cap looks terrorism and the usual morass of wingnut lunacy.