With the new mask guidelines the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released Thursday, the COVID-19 pandemic feels like it’s nearing an end for many of us. I get my second Moderna shot next week, at which point my transformation into the little-known Batman supervillain Blood Clottus will be complete. (Okay, just...
I used to occasionally argue with MAGAs before I realized I’d have better luck trying to convince Wile E. Coyote not to jump off the cliff in his Acme Batman Suit. He always jumps, and it always ends in disaster. I’ve never understood how you can spend more than a minute...
Kitchen Table Kibitzing is a community series for those who wish to share a virtual kitchen table with other readers of Daily Kos who aren’t throwing pies at one another. Drop by to talk about music, your weather, your garden, or what you cooked for supper…. Newcomers may notice that...
In May of 1996, my middle son graduated high school. I had been hospitalized the Tuesday before his ceremony, because of a hereditary bleeding disorder, I have suffered from since age 34. I was due to be released from the hospital on Thursday the day before his graduation but I...
Needless to say, this is appalling. https://twitter.com/ParkerMolloy/status/1298820170891362304?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw See? Kyle Rittenhouse simply wanted to help. He’s a good (i.e., white) boy deep down. I mean, we can understand Rittenhouse, right? He’s a vigilante! Like Batman! Gotham is corrupt, y’all! Tucker: How shocked are we that 17 year olds with rifles decided...
There is a diary on here which is very good about Betsy No nothing and it is good. http://www.dailykos.com/… I am a parent, grandparent and great grandparent. I know kids. I have raised enough of them to know them. We know we have a shortage of teachers and we do...
So much iconoclasty, so little time to election day. Darn all those racist targets and their problematic cultural frames, constructed from their siting and historical context, all with social and political mediation. Darn all those genocidal reckonings, darn that 400 years. “Chicago has two Columbus statues and a pillar donated...
Reportedly, Donald Trump declines the wearing of a protective mask because either it will make him look silly, or he believes it will give the wrong message to the American public, be afraid. There is a dark history to men wearing masks, magicians, executioners, and thieves. The current president has...
It may be irony, schadenfreude or coincidence but we are crossing paths at the intersection of politics and Marvel or DC Comics. We have a blustering Joker as Head of State, Mr. Freeze as his second, and an assortment of Two-faces, Riddlers and a top-hatted Penguin seeking to avoid his...
You may remember Matt Whitaker as the bald dude who was Trump’s acting attorney general for a couple of months for some reason. No one really knew why. It sure remains a mystery to me, though. The only thing I can think of is that Trump was hoping to assemble an entire...
If Donald Trump were Superman, Lois Lane would be in the hands of kidnappers. One of the recurring themes in the plot line of superhero movies is their discretion and humility, all meant to protect their loved ones. Donald Trump for obvious reasons, except the ones in his head, is...
Last week in the U.K., Donald Trump gave two crackers interviews that drew a tremendous amount of criticism. First, he sat down with former America’s Got Talent judge and purported journalist Piers Morgan for what could only be described as the interview equivalent of an enraged pelican choking to death on...
I became aware of comic books when I was not quite six years old (way back in 1969). I clearly recall my first comic book was Marvel Comics the Incredible Hulk Issue #114. It had the Incredible Hulk fighting both Sandman and the Mandarin. I also got some other Marvel...
“Holy Corruption, Batman!” As reported in the New York Times last week, 16 officers – many of them “white shirts” were formally charged (arraigned) in New York State Supreme Court in the Bronx with various crimes ranging from “fixing” tickets for friends and relatives all the way up to selling...
