Last week is still a bit painful. This week Seth Meyers returns and he’s one of “ours”. Now, if they could just get Sam and Trevor and Stephen, heck, even Jordan Klepper. You know, he was derivative (mashup of Stephen on steriods and Jon) but he was funny. How about Larry Wilmore? Haven’t forgotten about …
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Oct 14 2018
Signs of the times.
I’m not really spoiling anything if I tell you that the Republican Party is withdrawing funding from many candidates who’s chances of winning are marginal. It is, of course, a sign of desperation and a recognition that Democratic candidates are outraising their opponents, sometimes by margins of 2 to 1 or more. No, what’s interesting …
Oct 13 2018
Babies
I dunno, I gave up Cap Pistols when I was about 8. I had a brief fling with plastic replicas when all the kids were LARPing Army in my early teens and another with the 20 Shot Starter Pistols (you use them for starting a race, not to train kids to love guns) when the …
Oct 12 2018
More Kidnapping
Trump administration weighs new family separation effort at border By Nick Miroff, Josh Dawsey, and Maria Sacchetti, Washington Post October 12, 2018 The White House is actively considering plans that could again separate parents and children at the U.S.-Mexico border, hoping to reverse soaring numbers of families attempting to cross illegally into the United States, …
Oct 12 2018
Rotten From The Top Down
As I feel the need to remind people from time to time, Trump is only part of what’s wrong. The real problem is Republicans. What Trump does is articulate their abhorrent agenda out loud. Oh, and he has no manners (shoe leather and ketchup, yeesh). Other than that his polcies are mainstream Republican from the …
Oct 11 2018
Direct Action: Valve Turners On Trial
(W)e who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive. We bring it out in the open, where it can be seen and dealt with. Like a boil that can never be cured so long as it is covered …
Oct 11 2018
Universal Health Care!
Universal Health Care! Oops. Universal Health Care! Universal Health Care! (Part 2) And Now… Asskicking
Oct 10 2018
Kharma
The National Rifle Association is in a lot of legal trouble, much of it related to participating in the Trump/Russia Treason Plot. We’ve known for months about Maria Butina. But we’ve known for years that the NRA is terrible for gun owners as the “comedians” at Cracked remind us- So they’ve lost a lot of …
Oct 10 2018
Brazil
I like to think of it as funny and scary 1985 movie directed by Terry Gilliam and written by him and Tom Stoppard. It’s well worth watching but it has little to do with Brazil. How Dangerous Is Jair Bolsonaro? By Isaac Chotiner, Slate Oct 08, 2018 On Sunday, an extreme far-right candidate, Jair Bolsonaro, …
Oct 09 2018
Shadier than you think.
Of course it’s a tragedy and today the papers are filled with the biographies of the victims and the reactions of their family and friends, but the Schoharie limousine crash opens a lot of lines of inquiry into its cause. In the first place you have the a driver with an improper liscense and a …
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