I need few material possessions, outside of my books. So I've driven a 2010 Ford Focus for the last 12 years. But it's starting to fade and we have a nephew who just graduated from college and needed an old car to get by for awhile,...
Glad Mark Penn was Bill and Hillary Clinton's buddy all those years, he's been so great for Democrats! President Trump may have moved out of New York City, but he.
This is the most authentically Appalachian Hillbilly thing that JD Vance has ever done: JD Vance’s team had the army corps of engineers take the unusual step of changing the.
This dead horse must be tired of getting exhumed: The Trump administration pushed to unveil a highly classified document on Russia’s interference in the 2016 election after an intense behind-the-scenes struggle over secrecy, which ended in late July when Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard released...
Just wanted to quickly build on Farley's post from earlier today. It's the 80th anniversary of the Hiroshima bomb and that deserves more play, though as anniversaries move from beyond.
I've been re-reading Neil Postman's essential cultural critique Amusing Ourselves to Death. On the 40th anniversary of its initial publication, it's more relevant than ever. Postman died in 2002, and.
Today, the Doomsday Machine in the movie “Dr. Strangelove: or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb” would be called an artificial intelligence device. The movie remains relevant, as it has for over 60 years. Today we have a Wired article that breathlessly...
Jamelle Bouie [free link] reflects on the strong signal that the Supreme Court's Republicans intend to nullify what's remaining of the most important civil rights legislation passed since Reconstruction: A.
As I alluded to in comments a few days back, I have gone back and forth quite a lot over the past two decades on the wisdom of using atomic.
Mike Donilon, putting the service in public service: Mike Donilon, the longtime strategist and confidant for former President Joseph R. Biden Jr., told congressional investigators Thursday that he would have received a $4 million bonus had Mr. Biden won re-election last year. That shows how Mr....
As I've stated many times, I loathe the emails that come from Democratic consultants and I think it is a waste of every single person's money to give it to.
Last night I plowed into the new season of King of the Hill, which revisits Arlen after Hank and Peggy's fifteen year absence selling propane and propane accessories for ARAMCO.