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Today is the day I stopped stalling. My BMI is on the cusp of “overweight,” and other than an overweening fondness for nondairy cheeses made from a mysterious hodgepodge of plant oils, space ingredients (dark matter for sure, and perhaps a soupçon of tauntaun smegma), and hipster smugness, I don’t have...

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  • April 19, 2021

This is what you call bad optics. Like really, really bad. Oedipus seeing Jocasta bad. (Yeah, my references are really old, but I couldn’t find a way to plausibly work Match Game into this one.) So you know that awful, awful Jim Crow-style voter suppression bill Georgia just passed? Well, the way...

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  • March 26, 2021

Rep. Michael Waltz received the Orlando Sentinel’s endorsement in the 2020 general election for Congress. On Thursday, Waltz joined onto the traitorous Texas lawsuit seeking to overturn the results in four states because they didn’t break for Donald Trump. On Friday, the paper’s Editorial Board formally apologized to their readers. We...

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  • December 11, 2020

Here’s A Letter on Justice and Open Debate in Harpers July 7, 2020. The usual contingencies apply considering that some of the signatories have serious issues with one or more ideas represented by other signatories. For example one is currently being pilloried for calling gay conversion therapy the equivalent of hormone...

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  • July 8, 2020

The population of Tulsa OK is around 402,000. The population of the whole state of Oklahoma is just under 4 million. Yet, somehow, 80% of the city, or just under 10% of the whole state, are said to have registered for the Trump Rally and Coronavirus Feast next Friday. Trump...

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  • June 13, 2020

(Trigger warnings) The boss of Donald Trump’s personal banker at Deutsche Bank has committed suicide. x In case you missed the breaking news from late last night: A former Deutsche Bank executive who signed off on Trump loans hanged himself in Malibu last week: https://t.co/TrTWWlWLa4 — Scott Stedman (@ScottMStedman) November...

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  • November 27, 2019

So remember those two Rudy Giuliani associates who were arrested on campaign finance charges 11 days ago? Donald Trump, of course, had no idea who there were, but acknowledged he might show up in some photos with them: Asked about two men with ties to Rudy Giuliani arrested earlier today,...

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  • October 21, 2019