I Have a (Olympic) Dream
Women and people of color had a unique experience that ended yesterday in Tokyo, Japan. The controversial Summer Olympics closed with America at the top...
Meet The Press discusses anti-Asian violence without any invisible model minority… ground Chuck
So much thick-headed media activity this past week. OTOH Chuck Todd panders to the center again, or perhaps it's the college drop-out demographic. xA @MeetThePress...
Assuming some violence will occur in election week, plan to keep calm and remain aware
Assuming that there will be some violent provocations, we should encourage all deescalation efforts for election week, regardless of the vote outcomes. We’ve now seen the...
In the Thought Bubble
Men’s basketball has been in the Bubble and fittingly (I guess) the women are in the Wubble. Baseball is playing before packed houses of canned...
North Korea blows up inter-Korean liaison office building. The Trump Bromance is over
North Korea blew up an inter-Korean liaison office building just north of the heavily armed border with South Korea, which may be more for domestic consumption, but also signifies the impotence of US-DPRK...
Bill O'Reilly to Hannity: Many coronavirus victims 'were on their last legs anyway'
So when four Americans died in Benghazi, Libya, following an attack on our embassy, Republicans spent the next four years acting as if the plague...
Joe Biden Launches His First Campaign Newsletter To Keep Supporters Up To Date With The Campaign
Received this e-mail today from former Vice President Joe Biden’s presidential campaign: This is our first of regular newsletters we will be sending around to...
China Blames US for COVID-19
The New York Times reported this on Friday, but it seems we all missed it: China Spins Tale That the U.S. Army Started the Coronavirus...
Post-Debate national polling shows mixed trends prior to Nevada caucuses
The reality of tomorrow’s Nevada caucus will be in the details of delegate allocation. The meme of “insurmountable delegate lead” could prevail. Meanwhile Trump does a counter-rally...
Good grief, New York Times—Trump is not a 'populist' like Warren
Signaling that it's going to work hard to elevate Donald Trump during the upcoming presidential campaign, The New York Times recently suggested that Trump and...
Good grief, New York Times—Trump is not a 'populist' like Warren
Signaling that it's going to work hard to elevate Donald Trump during the upcoming presidential campaign, The New York Times recently suggested that Trump and...
Trump dislikes DeVos, but she survives because he doesn't care about education
Well, there’s nothing really surprising about this. Trump doesn’t like anyone but Trump, and of course he doesn’t care about education — his or anyone...
Congressman's statement on Trump's Special Olympics 180: 'Can someone pull Betsy from under the bus?
They got caught being soulless ghouls again, and unwilling to withstand another news cycle in which they’re painted (quite accurately) as insensitive toward some of...
The “Everything Terrible Trump Has Done So Far” Omnibus (Week 114)
As part of the ongoing project to catalog every awful thing the Trump Administration has done as a reference for future political arguments and whatever...
If Lake Placid could host the Winter Olympics, then Milwaukee can host the DNC
Twice, most recently in 1980, the tiny village of Lake Placid, New York, which has fewer people than my hometown of Westville, Illinois, hosted the...
LOL. Ricky Gervais of “The Office” Makes a Good Point About drumpf's Apprentice Tape Tweet.
So dumbass tweeted this about Omarosa reiterating that he used racial slurs on the set of The Apprentice: x.@MarkBurnettTV called to say that there are...
Multiple members of U.S. Olympic biathlon team call for gun control
There are only four Olympic sports (not counting sports that are scheduled to debut or re-debut at the Olympics after 2018 or sports that have...
Tesla Model 3 officially unveiled today!
I’ll keep this short and sweet, as I had to wake up really early for this and now need to go back to sleep ;)...
The Cheryl's Birthday problem
Here's to obsessions. And math problems. And visual aids to thinking. And to Singapore where teaching kids how to think takes precedence over doofus regurge....
Clint Eastwood and the GOP’s overweening pride
A Hollywood icon had a senior moment, or several, in the lead up to the most important speech of Mitt Romney’s career. We’ve had a...
Did you watch the Olympics?
I enjoyed the Olympics, or what little NBC bothered to air of the Olympics. We were stuck mostly with talking heads and human interest stories....
