You have undoubtably heard about this, but it is interesting to hear it side-by-side: List of items prohibited from being brought into the convention perimeter: tennis balls, sound equipment, umbrellas with metal tips, padlocks and bicycle locks, sleeping bags, gas masks, ornaments, tents, coolers, lasers, canned goods, light bulbs, aerosol cans, ropes longer than 6 […]
If you missed the first day of the Republican National Convention (like me, I was off on an island for the day, with no electricity or internet) Electoral Vote has a concise summary you should read. Quick summaries of the delegate revolt that was quashed, Paul Ryan’s vanishing act, red meat from Rudy Giuliani and […]
© Matt Bors I’ve noticed that reasoning — “he had a gun” used as an excuse for the police shooting someone (even to the point of police planting a gun on a dead person). So if that is considered a good reason for the police to shoot someone, then how can the NRA keep telling […]
[Jokes from June 28, 2016] “Donald Trump appears to be softening some of his anti-immigration views lately. So it sounds to me like someone’s shopping for a new wife.” – Conan O’Brien “Today, Democrats said the committee investigating Hillary Clinton’s involvement with Benghazi was a ‘witch hunt.’ Hillary tried to respond, but just then a […]
Why did Trump pick Mike Pence as his VP, when he really wanted Chris Christie? It is likely because Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner — who is also Trump’s de facto campaign manager — has not forgiven Christie for putting his father, Charles Kushner, in prison, back when Christie was a US attorney. In 2005, Charles […]
Those of us who have lived in the south have seen in person that some people there are still fighting the civil war. They think that losing the actual war was a temporary setback that they will someday overcome. It has almost turned into a religious war, which is why the KKK had such religious […]
[Jokes from June 27, 2016] “Because of England’s Brexit vote, there’s now talk in Scotland and Northern Ireland about leaving the UK. And when I say ‘talk,’ I mean loud, angry, incomprehensible talk.” – Conan O’Brien “Critics are calling those in Britain who voted to pull out of the European Union ‘racist’ and ‘anti-immigrant.’ After […]
© Garry Trudeau Donald Trump seems to be the master of being everything to everybody, sometimes taking contradictory positions in the same day. Which should mean that people will figure out that you can’t believe anything he says. Instead, his run-on mouth seems to be working for him, giving him tons of free media exposure. […]
[Jokes from June 23, 2016] “The UK officially voted to leave the European Union. It caused the British pound to hit a 31-year low. You could tell Brits were struggling today. Queen Elizabeth was wearing one of those cardboard crowns from Burger King.” – Jimmy Fallon “Following the vote, British Prime Minister David Cameron actually […]
© Tom Tomorrow While it is true that the world is a better place than it has ever been in the past, it is still sad to think that we are doomed to continue fighting racism, sexism, and other forms of bigotry and intolerance for a long time.
[Jokes from June 23, 2016] “Democrats held a big sit-in on the House floor to protest Congress’ refusal to vote on gun control. Or in other words, Democrats were tired of Congress not getting anything done, so they refused to get anything done until someone got something done.” – Jimmy Fallon “House Democrats staged a […]
You know how Donald Trump raised money last month? By sending out YUUUGE amounts of email spam! I never imagined that anything could be worse than spam clogging up my inbox, but spam from a racist billionaire begging for money? Trump sent out so much spam that he was cut off by his bulk email […]
I highly recommend that you read a new article in Medium by Bernie Sanders. It hits all the bases, including making the point that in order to get progressive reforms, we must elect progressive candidates at all levels of government, not just at the top. I (once again) thank Sanders for making it ok to […]
While national polls are pretty consistent in showing Hillary Clinton leading Donald Trump, you have to remember that darn Electoral College, which makes national polls next to meaningless. The important thing is who wins the swing states. And in new polls of swing-states, Trump is leading Clinton in the mother of all swing states, Florida. […]
[Helen Philpot from Margaret and Helen has a good rant about Donald Trump.] Margaret, which voters have their heads farther up their asses, Trump supporters or Brexit voters? Wait a minute. Is it farther or further? I don’t know, but either way the asshats they are now wearing aren’t making anyone great again. I know […]
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