Miscellany

• Spider-Man's webs and the physics thereof.
• Cartoon with potty-mouthed cry-babies.
• The Rude One on requesting "horror" stories and getting affirmations of effectiveness:

  By the way, even the questions the IN-GOP asks are bullshit. Here's one person responding to the last one, about small businesses: "Before the ACA, my company didn't offer insurance benefits to the hundred or so employees at my location. Now, we have a choice of plans. Amazing what a little pressure can accomplish."

• Ainsi soit-il.

  We have enough data and research that says that most of the people who voted for Trump were motivated by racial resentment. In their eyes, everything that’s wrong in their lives – and by extension, America – is a direct result of the upward mobility of black folks; the influx of immigrants; and also, the belief that Christianity in America is under attack by Muslims.
  
  This was the reality.
  
  [...]
  
  There’s no room for finding common ground with people who see my humanity as an impediment to their daily lives. Again, as a person of color, my humanity isn’t afforded the benefit of the doubt. So much so, that they supported a candidate who sold them on the idea that non-white people and folks who look like me are seen as the problem. Changing that misconception – otherwise correctly identified as racism – doesn’t rest with me.

  (Rippa, The Intersection of Madness and Reality)
  
• "Readings for Juneteenth," Jesse Curtis.  History rewritten.
• Ancient Ashkenaz.