Evidently, as a west coaster I will not be participating, but for those who want one. As you know I'm pretty much with this contrarian take but hopefully it will be a good battle for those of you who are bigger fans of filmed battles! (And...
Paul observed yesterday that Trump used his Wisconsin rally to spread dangerous and reprehensible lies about mothers and doctors deciding to execute babies. This leads us to one of the.
This is the grave of Chris Kyle. Born in 1974 in Odessa, Texas, Kyle wanted to become a rodeo star. But as happens in that utterly insane sport, he suffered.
Prime movers behind America's gun violence crisis and cutout organization for Russian ratfuckers, the NRA for some reason seems to be led by inept grifters: National Rifle Association President Oliver North has been ousted amid internal strife and external pressure.In a statement read at the NRA’s...
President Bush, delivering commencement address at the University of Michigan yesterday, joined a growing political backlash against the idea that free speech should be subordinated to the civil rights of women and.
https://twitter.com/RVAwonk/status/1122311812123439105 This moral monster is talking about infant palliative care.
Just horrible: One person was killed and three injured in a shooting at a synagogue in California on Saturday afternoon, the authorities said.The Poway Station of the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department said on Twitter that the shooting happened around 11:30 a.m. local time at the...
You may not be surprised to learn that Bill Barr's definition of "obstruction of justice" becomes rather more capacious when it comes to implementing Donald Trump's white nationalist agenda: It.
Sheldon Whitehouse has a good piece putting this week's Wall Street Journal editorial issued by John Roberts into the broader context of the Court's interminable string of essentially lawless pro-business.
This is the slave graveyard at Monticello. The debate about Thomas Jefferson and slavery is now completely settled. Thanks to DNA and to scholars such as Annette Gordon-Reed exploring in great detail and nuance Jefferson's relationships with slavery, which of course included sexual, only the most...
I had expected the story of the first round of the draft to be Jon Gruden's hilarious ineptitude. And yet Dave Gettleman really stepped up: Let’s start with the Jones.
Thor's Fight with the Giants (1872) by Mårten Eskil Winge. Let this serve as an open thread for discussion of Avengers: Endgame. Unlike Star Wars, I don't feel the need for a.