Shortly after the slap heard ‘round the world last night, I feared my phone would catch fire from the tweets, messages, and calls. I am notorious for avoiding self-congratulatory award shows, and my friends know it. […]
Category: Rock
Opinion: Polite Applause is Enough, not an Ovation
There is a funny and oft-repeated line from the standup comedy act of Chris Rock— for some (expletive) they supposed to do! Rock’s punchline was a rebuff to one wanting congratulations for accomplishing their fundamental responsibility. […]
Merry Christmas! Did your family have any unique or weird holiday traditions back in the day?
As a confirmed Christmas-loving atheist, my holiday memories are necessarily tinged with irony and a soupçon of sentimental yearning. I’ve now been a nonbeliever far longer than I believed, but I want to cling, as best I […]
Watch Ted Cruz angrily defend every patriot's right to rock Nazi salutes at school board meetings
Republicans lined up to get their Fox News sound bites in on Tuesday, during a hearing on Attorney General Merrick Garland’s memorandum on protecting school board members against violence—the very kind of violence promised by […]
Mountainous West Virginia leads the nation in crippling flash floods risk from climate change.
“No, no. There's 52 senators who don't agree, okay, and there's two that want to work something out if possible in a most rational reasonable way.” Joe Manchin fessing up that he and Sinema are […]
Chevron, not the DOJ, prosecutes a human rights activist, successfully sentencing him to prison.
“Today's sentencing of human rights lawyer Steven Donziger should be front-page news ringing alarm bells anywhere people are concerned about democracy, abuses of corporate power, and the rule of law. The real crime here is the […]
CA-Gov: Rep. Ted Lieu (D) Brilliantly Trolls Uninformed Idiot On Twitter With A Politics 101 Lesson
Fail: REALITY BITES: That didn’t take long. Reality TV star and political neophyte Caitlyn Jenner was about 24 hours into the rollout of her California gubernatorial campaign this weekend when she posted her first major campaign […]
Shame on White House reporters attacking Biden and Maxine Waters over Chauvin trial
White House Reporters made a mockery out of the press conference today. They acted as if President Biden needed to scold Maxine Waters and himself for Chauvin’s trial comments. Shame on White House Reporters Politics […]
Thwaites glacier is in extreme peril as warm water is discovered, eroding critical pinning points.
“We might (and I stress might) have already reached and passed a point where there is really no turning back for Thwaites, no matter what we as humans do to our climate,” Alastair Graham, the University […]
Minerva at Midnight: better sex under (democratic) socialism
“As in the Times Op-Ed from which the book originated, the title refers to the results of studies conducted in Germany from the mid-nineteen-eighties onward, which reported, among other intriguing findings, that eighty per cent […]
“Their stupid is always bigger than their evil” in an ex-POTUS's hope for military coup
Banana Republic is not yet a bankrupt concept in America, although it is being sorely tested. Trump’s 1/6 coup counted on the numbers of RWNJs in the US military, including some QAnon-influenced former National Security […]
March 4 will not be a day of “camo, bear-spray, and noose enthusiasts”
Likely there will some stunt somewhere today, perhaps not in DC. Hopefully there will be no casualties, but nothing will match the easing of mask mandates in Texas and Mississippi. Perhaps there’s a numerological formula for […]
Flip Flops used to mean footwear, now it means Republican trait. My flip flops were harmless
Wasn’t it just last week that Moscow Mitch said, no to impeachment but took to the floor to say “Lock him up” and then within the last 24 hours saying with all listed below, if […]
