I’ve just returned from 4 days in the Oregon forest, hanging out with various creatures such as a pair of American martens I saw hiking near Mount McLoughlin today. Anything happen while I was gone????????
Month: September 2017
Senator Roy Moore appears more likely than not to happen: As recently as Friday night, when Donald Trump spoke for 85 minutes at a rally for Strange in Huntsville, public polling was showing Strange f
Commentarion CV Danes asked a very good question about solutions to the crisis in Puerto Rico, and I didn’t want it to get buried in the comments: Somewhat OT, but a few months ago I wondered ho
It’s almost impossible to overstate how dire the situation is on Puerto Rico: After Maria blew threw the city, taking down trees and power lines, the flash floods came. “The water had to be at least six, maybe seven feet high,” said Nelson Rodriguez, a Gulf Express employee. “It took everything. All the medicine in […]
The #StupidestPresidentEver’s peculiar brand of Bet you won’t cross this line, how dare you cross that line? brinkmanship continues to yield results. North Korea’s Foreign Minister R
In response to Jimmy Kimmel’s entirely accurate criticisms of his unspeakably dreadful healthcare bill, Bill Casssidy was outraged that Kimmel wasn’t taking the bill’s handwaving pro
On September 25, 1891, a battle broke out in Lee County, Arkansas, in the Mississippi Delta, between members of the Colored Farmers Alliance and others, both black and white, who opposed their organizing for better wages in cotton picking. This led to the death of two black men who did not want to join the […]
BREAKING! Future of the republic at stake! Presidential son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner has corresponded with other administration officials about White House matters through a private ema
Senator Ben Sasse, alleged by people with very low standards to be a decent sort: NFL players: You have the right to protest Trump tmrw. But aren’t there better ways than kneeling before the flag so
This is one week where I intend to watch the last few minutes of the pregame shows. If you’re into this kind of thing, enjoy Barnwell on Kapernick and quality of play issues. And enjoy this on the mediocrity of Eli Manning.
There are many more statements like this, in addition to more pointed ones from organizations like the NFL Players Association, and LeBron James. Without knowing the socio-political beliefs of each te
CNN’s editor-at-large, president of the Ivanka Trump Fanciers Club, and life-long beneficiary of the Mediocracy has concluded that the Supremacist-in-Chief’s attacks on African-American at