Balladeer’s Blog resumes my recurring item Transgress with Me in a slightly altered format, but it’s still only for the politically daring.
ANOTHER BRAVE WOMAN EXPLAINS WHAT DROVE HER AWAY FROM THE DEMOCRATS. “I see increasing numbers of so-called liberals cheering censorship and defending violence as a response to speech.”
COURAGEOUS PROFESSOR DEFIES THE CHURCH OF IRRATIONAL THOUGHT AND POLITICAL INTOLERANCE. “Reasoning requires you to understand truth claims, even truth claims that you think are false or bad or just icky. Most of you have been taught to label things with various “isms” which prevent you from understanding claims you find uncomfortable or difficult.”
MOTHER JONES COMPARES PRESIDENT TRUMP TO FDR, TRUMAN, SERPICO, BRUBAKER AND MORE.
FROM ANTIFA MEMBER TO TRUMP SUPPORTER HERE. Continue reading











As a sign of the times, Quaker Oats had developed two new types of breakfast cereals but rather than name the pair themselves, they went to advertising agencies and Jay Ward Productions, creators of Cap’n Crunch, to come up with two advertising mascots for the new cereals.
In a gimmick that the General Mills Monster Cereals mentioned above would later imitate, the animated Quisp and Quake would be rivals, each one insisting that their cereal was clearly the superior product. That tongue-in-cheek rivalry was even more successful than the Quaker Oats people had hoped.
















