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Frank Alexander 16-Aug-2025
The Trump administration's removal of the accomplishments of the code talkers from official history and websites is, just as the origin of...
Susan Parker 15-Feb-2025
Nothing much. Just angst, fear, and more angst. Did I mention angst?
Ferd Borkelmeyer 21-Dec-2024
New admonsteration to take office, what could possibly go wrong?
Rees Clark 12-Oct-2024
Half a million surplus deaths from Covid-19 and Hannibal Lecter piloting spaceships built by Elon Moosk. What's not to like?
Rash Limbaugh 21-Feb-2024
Walmart calls Kool-Aid "food" in its ads and catalog. l.facebook.com
Amicus Scrupulus 21-Feb-2024
Despite decades of warnings about "drinking the Kool-Aid*, GOP reps in the House have opted to drink the Smirnov.
Apparently allegory is...

Tell your loved ones: There is no such thing as a recreational drug. According to the DEA, seven out of 10 illicit pills contain a lethal amount of fentanyl. —Ed.

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The Trump administration's removal of the accomplishments of the code talkers...
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Gotta vote for the full meal deal.
 
Tr$mpist anti-health cabal strikes again
Every aluminum can in my fridge knows more about medicine than does Donald Tr$mp.
The idea that he has any concept of the influence of medications on pathologies that exist years or decades after treatment is ludicrous, exceeding only the fantasies expoused by RFK Jr. They both reveal their lack of expertise every time they open their mouths.
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A piece of a prize
The idea that The Donald should get the Nobel Peace Prize is at best premature.
1. The fact that... Continues...
Just a tad short of sainthood
Frankly, I never heard of Churlish Krik before last week. (Name changed to frustrate web searches by... Continues...
Histo(R)y? Not really, it appears
Yagottabe fascinated by the scramble among (R)eactionaries to distinguish "good slavery" from "bad... Continues...

Inside SSG: News

Last Code Talkers Await Sunset
Rob Picheta, writing at CNN, advises that only two Navajo Code Talkers remain alive. They want America to remember.

Thomas Begay and... Continues...
Tom Lehrer 1928-2025
Tom Lehrer, who died this weekend at 97, was surely the greatest satyrical song writer of the mid-20th Century. In the 1960s one had to be... Continues...
DOGE Aftermath Reaches South Asia as Malnutrition
Le Monde reports that the US administration will destroy "several tons" of enriched, nutritious "cookies" that would have gone to... Continues...

Inside SSG: Not News

Ear patch's ancient origins fabled in song and story
An old (2008) post-war movie in French and German titled ("Women of the Shadows") about WWII spies... Continues...
Original 2nd Amendment Text Extends Weapons Ownership Rights

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Tr$mp to Sue Christianity for $1 Trillion
IN A DEVELOPMENT that has surprised many of his supporters, Donald Tr$mp will sue Christianity over... Continues...
 

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