All, Word has come down that our long time commenter efgoldman has died. I knew his health was pretty shaky and that he had been in and out of the hospital, but certainly didn’t know it was this serious. He was a long-time commenter at LGM and other blogs and I know many of you […]
Haven’t had a good beer talk in awhile. I was reminded of that when I ran across this, uh, interesting discovery. As digital technology has advanced and smartphones have become ubiquitous, the S
The NYT has a credulous story about how ACTUALLY restaurant servers don’t want to be paid for. I know the feeling — I have always advocated for decently paid tenured positions to be replac
It has been just amazing watching people who have been saying since summer 2016 that the idea that Russia was ratfucking the elections on behalf of Donald Trump was a paranoid liberal fantasy claiming full 100% vindication (just like their president Donald J. Trump, who do they do not support, was totally 100% exonerated by […]
Puerto Rico edition: The island would not need Congress to step in to fund its food stamps and Medicaid programs if it were a state. For U.S. states, the federal government has committed to funding th
I suspect that most of the LGMers were watching last Thursday morning when Ichiro played his last inning of Major League Baseball. Scott, Dave and I were there for his first game in a Mariner’
There’s white nationalist in the White House who tried to ban 1 billion people from entering the United States because of their religion. There have been numerous deadly shootings/killings motivated by Trump-approved anti-Semitism, rank misogyny and anti-Muslim bigotry. There has been a rise in white nationalist terrorism here and abroad and it can all be […]
I don’t want to make this all Trump’s-stooge’s-brief-tendentious-summary-of-the-Mueller-Report all the time, but any story that reports Barr’s decision not reject obstruction c
This is the grave of William Borah. Born in 1865 in Wayne County, Illinois, he was sent to a Presbyterian seminary, but was expelled for hitching train rides to spend the night in a nearby city. He th
This has already been a massively successful spin operation, but Ken White has a good summary of what is actually in the 4 page letter released today: Next, Barr reported that the special counsel concluded that Russia attempted to interfere with the 2016 presidential election. That interference involved disinformation campaigns, efforts to sow “social discord” […]
I don’t have anything particularly profound to say on music today. But we all need a break from the Mueller report and I have listened to a bunch of new albums recently, so it seems to be time f
Fake cow suer Devin Nunes of course supports a fully transparent investigation…of the Obama administration: Devin Nunes tells Fox & Friends that Mueller's report should be burned and tha