Dunno 'bout y'all, but once I discharge my parental obligations around 4pm, I'm gonna start drinking. I suspect I will stop drinking at some later date. What plans do folks have for tonight?
100,298,838 to be exact. This number will rise as final reports come in; furthermore several million more mail-in ballots will be either mailed or dropped off today. The latter are.
I've seen more than one person wish that they could go into a coma for the next 48 hours. They should perhaps consult with Tom Friedman, who has apparently been.
https://twitter.com/jonathanchait/status/1323461268339085313 Seriously, how does this happen? (I assume being married to a billionaire plays some role). Friedman wrote at least one genuinely interesting book, thirty years ago now it's true, but he's not an idiot, at least not congenitally. And yet he's become a person who...
This is the grave of Owen Roberts. Born in Philadelphia in 1875, Roberts was the son of a prosperous hardware merchant. He attended the University of Pennsylvania and edited the.
My wife likes to mock claims that Trump can't possibly be a fascist by quipping that, "if it's not 1930s Europe, then it's just sparkling authoritarianism." In the last few.
Never mind: Twitter Inc TWTR.N late on Monday flagged a tweet by U.S. President Donald Trump in which he called a Supreme Court decision on voting in Pennsylvania "very dangerous."The social media platform added a disclaimer to the tweet saying that its content was “disputed” and “might be...
The best that you can hope for is to die in your sleep: Update: The Texas Rs who sued over Harris County's drive-thru voting sites have appealed today's order dismissing.
They'll do a lot of things but they won't do that: https://twitter.com/KlasfeldReports/status/1323360824753270785 When you see stuff like this, a couple of things are generally going on: (1) Legal formalism isn't.
Today, the Supreme Court reversed a Fifth Circuit decision that granted qualified immunity to prison guards who made a prisoner spend four days in a cell "covered, nearly floor to ceiling" in "massive" amounts of shit, and then in a freezing cold cell naked with no...
I've been informed by the Powers That Be that October was the best month in this blog's history in terms of pages views, with the total well into seven figures.
We discussed the general issue in our election pod, but I'm encouraged by this because it suggests that Biden knows what he's doing: Joe Biden’s team is considering an informal.