Time to check on extremist pinheads who aren’t running president. How’s Ammo Bundy doing these days? To pass the time, he takes inspiration from the jailhouse words of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. about the importance of civil disobedience O world, thou must be shitting me. The only way this violent, spoiled, white […]
Month: March 2016
So I had maybe a little too much fun stealing SEK’s shtick and riffing on my cat picture a couple weeks back. I wanted to do it again, but thought maybe it’s not so nice to work SEK’
The background to this story, in a nutshell, is that Seattle has, for a variety of reasons (including an affordable housing crisis driven by an acute and largely self-inflicted housing shortage) seen
People who play very close to American politics will remember that Jim Webb briefly went through the formal motions of a presidential campaign this year, on the premise that what Democratic voters were crying out for in 2016 above all was anti-anti-Confederate arguments and plenty of ’em. (To be clear, it is clearly a massive […]
Well it’s not really a theory yet, but it’s trending in that direction: Last October I wrote of the five stages of Trump, based on the Kübler-Ross stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaini
Observers of the oral argument suggest that the NFL has a good chance of getting the Brady suspension reinstated. I don’t actually think that Petchesky is correct that this “would be the m
Actual headline on CNN, the most trusted name in “news,” summing up last night’s “debate.” DONALD TRUMP DEFENDS SIZE OF HIS PENIS I guess this is why they call it American exceptionalism. Seriously we’re now making banana republics blush. (I remember the very first time I heard of the store Banana Republic. It must have […]
On March 4, 1933, the newly inaugurated president Franklin Delano Roosevelt nominated Frances Perkins as Secretary of Labor. This first female cabinet member in American history (the second wouldnR
I have lots of news, much of it of the HUGE variety, but until I’m more settled in, you’ll have to settle for this and a bunch of OLDMAN CAT posts: HATE-MAILER: You’re no objective
While most of the early coverage of the most recent Republican debate has focused on the pissing contest becoming less metaphorical and more literal, the most important point of the debate came at the end: The most important moment in Thursday night’s campaign came on the final question, when the three non-Trump candidates were all […]
Looks like the last round up is going on in Nevada. LAS VEGAS, Nev. – The federal grand jury in Nevada has charged 14 more defendants in connection with the armed assault against federal law enforce
Randy Barnett is a Georgetown University law professor, who is well known for both his libertarian views and his insider status among DC conservatives (he was the academic point man in the battle to i