If there was any doubt that Limbaugh, et.al. and many of his Republicans are racists…

You Can’t Talk About How Kamala Got to the Top

“He’s “an independent contractor [who] had his contractor deal terminated by the league after a sexist Facebook post referencing Kamala Harris… [He] posted an image that read ‘Joe and the Hoe,’” h-o-e.” Continue reading “If there was any doubt that Limbaugh, et.al. and many of his Republicans are racists…” →

This is a new wrinkle: a president that is purposefully sabotaging the election. And brags about it.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/13/trump-opposes-usps-funding-394692?cid=apn

Not only that, but he is cool with mail in voting in red states like NC, which has a history of fraud in voting perpetrated by the GOP. Hey, practice makes perfect.

Knowing we have to use mail for voting in the pandemic, he appoints another lackey to slow delivery and threatens to veto any additional funding for this crucial election.

Mental Illness and the Left

Source: ResearchGate.

ABSTRACT
It has been claimed that left-wingers or liberals (US sense) tend to more often suffer from mental illness than right-wingers or conservatives. This potential link was investigated using the General Social Survey cumulative cross-sectional dataset (1972-2018). A search of the available variables resulted in 5 items measuring one’s own mental illness (e.g., ”Do you have any emotional or mental disability?”). All of these items were weakly associated with left-wing political ideology as measured by self-report, with especially high rates seen for the “extremely liberal” group. These results mostly held up in regressions that adjusted for age, sex, and race. For the variable with the most data (n = 11,338), the difference in the mental illness measure between “extremely liberal” and “extremely conservative” was 0.39 d. Temporal analysis showed that the relationship between mental illness, happiness, and political ideology has existed in the GSS data since the 1970s and still existed in the 2010s. Within-study meta-analysis of all the results found that extreme liberals had a 150% increased rate of mental illness compared to moderates. The finding of increased mental illness among left-wingers is congruent with numerous findings based on related constructs, such as positive relationships between conservatism, religiousness and health in general.

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Saturday Morning Irony

Played 18 holes of golf with my brother Saturday morning at Sleepy Hole Golf Course. Played terribly, but one thing I saw had my laughing behind my mask.

While awaiting my brother’s arrival, I was hanging around the bag drop and practice green, a gentleman walked by wearing his mask (as most were. YAY!) It was the logo on the mask that caught my attention.

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