Above: The car used as a murder weapon in Charlottesville. This freeze-frame photo is in the Public Domain. “…there are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices to be found only in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill, and suspicion can destroy; and
Above: July 18, 2017 MSNBC screen grab. At you thought he couldn’t look stupider! Let’s be truthful about the reason that Republicans can’t come up with a viable replacement for Obamacare: they never wanted or planned to replace it. “Replace” was always lip service—and nothing more. Mulch
Photo above is from Creative Commons: “hacker army 2.0” by Rodrigo Paoletti is licensed under CC BY 2.0
Our culture shoots black men. Kills them. And our culture acquits their killers—if they are the police. This headline grabbed me and shook me, reading like too many that I have seen before: "Minnesota Officer Acquitted in Killing of Philando Castile."
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I expected President Drumpf to embarrass himself—and us by proxy—when he went abroad last month. He did not disappoint, so long as you’re a fan of dark humor. Consider DJT as the perfect poster boy for what I’ll call the neo-Ugly American: cutting in front of the Motenegrin
…that’s the current liberal fantasy, and we can sweeten it even more by taking the rest of America’s “left coast” with us. Welcome to Ecotopia, baby—a dated, romantic, organic neverland. And like many works of fiction, not really do-able. But consider that in many ways, California departed
A lot of us who respect Barack Obama’s eight years in the White House want to curl up and hibernate for the next four years. Please, let it just be four!
Even the best magicians never actually do magic—they give you a believable illusion that they are performing the impossible. Mostly, they do it by misdirection. After a literal or figurative “look over here!” …your attention jumps to the waving hand, or the flashing light, or
I’m sorry, but the Hitler analogy is at last appropriate. You can hear the original Führer’s hateful nationalism in nearly every sentence that comes out of Mr. Trump’s mouth, most especially in his inaugural speech. “I’m sorry, but…” is most often a non-apology that means exactly the
