John Oliver’s next episode is September 9th. Stephen has new episodes starting September 3rd. Seth Meyers returns September 5th as does Samantha Bee.

People forget that the debacle of 1968 led to serious Democratic Party reforms that included among other things the wholesale replacement of Caucuses (notoriously corrupt) with Primaries. Then Dr. George “DFC” McGovern, B-24 Liberator pilot who flew 35 combat missions over German-occupied Europe, lost in a landslide to Richard “Not A Crook” Nixon because being …

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In youth and folly my sister married someone I can hardly characterise as a gentleman who happened to be at least ‘socially’ Catholic (my activist brother married Catholic too, I’ll have to tell you that one sometime) and as was customary in his family it was a full bore, sanctified, butts in the pews Church …

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Huzzah. Good news if true, but I’ve never seen anything the Institutional Democrats couldn’t manage to screw up. ‘We’re going to fight it like hell’ By DAVID SIDERS, Politico 08/23/20 Democratic Party officials are on the verge of greenlighting a Bernie Sanders-endorsed plan to weaken the influence of superdelegates in the presidential nominating process. But …

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Minks? Diamonds? Chocolate? Don’t think a Trumpie Bear with her name on it is gonna’ fix this. Nah, that’s going to take a lot of honey.

Trump’s Pecker Got Him in Legal Trouble Before Conspiring with Russia Did By emptywheel August 21, 201 It was a three ring circus among top Trump advisors today: Jurors found Paul Manafort guilty on 8 counts (the jury was hung on the other 10); Michael Cohen pled guilty to 8 counts, and Mueller’s team continued …

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We are of course big fans of Labor and there is hardly a strike I won’t support, even those of “Millionaire” atheletes. Starting today Convict Workers, who are shamefully abused in a variety of ways, are refusing to participate in Prison Industry. I’ve had the opportunity to meet some of these guys in connection with …

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Epistemology studies the nature of knowledge, justification, and the rationality of belief. Much debate in epistemology centers on four areas: (1) the philosophical analysis of the nature of knowledge and how it relates to such concepts as truth, belief, and justification, (2) various problems of skepticism, (3) the sources and scope of knowledge and justified …

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John Oliver is a pretty conventional macro economist, which is a shame really because it ties him to some unfortunate assumptions and misconceptions. He is, at least, to the left of Hayek which is something I guess. But he’s not as bafflingly wrongheaded and radical as what passes for the Trump economic brain trust. The …

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Because I have a book dammit.