Sunday, February 28, 2021
SNL was pretty darn good this week. Here are two skits:
Sunday, February 28, 2021
There is an important side story about what just happened in Texas with their (not completely unpredictable) freezing weather, and the collapse of their electrical grid. The story we are being told is that Texas deregulated their energy system in 1999, using the promise that this would increase competition, provide consumer choice, and thus lower […]
Wednesday, February 24, 2021
May Rush Limbaugh rest in peace. Not just peace for him, but for the rest of us. According to Electoral-Vote, the loss of Limbaugh may be especially bad news for a few right-wing pundits: We also wonder if this is an early reflection of how the loss of Rush Limbaugh will impact the right-wing media. […]
Tuesday, February 23, 2021
Ted Cruz says that his wife is “pretty pissed” that her text messages about their last minute trip to Cancun Mexico were leaked to the NY Times. He then plays the victim, saying: Here’s a suggestion, just don’t be assholes. Yeah, like just you know, treat each other as human beings have some degree, some […]
Monday, February 22, 2021
Rick Perry, former governor of Texas and former Secretary of Energy, said “Texans would be without electricity for longer than three days to keep the federal government out of their business.” Of course, what would Perry know about energy? Ironically, the Department of Energy’s main job is to manage our nation’s nuclear stockpile, not to […]
Saturday, February 20, 2021
Osama bin Laden’s big mistake was that he didn’t realize that he could have caused far more death and destruction by simply by becoming president of the US. Indeed, Donald Trump wasn’t smart enough to figure that out on his own, the Russians had to cultivate him into it.
Friday, February 19, 2021
By now, almost everyone knows that while (normally balmy) Texas was suffering freezing weather with millions of people without power, Ted Cruz took off for a vacation in Cancun, Mexico. He was originally busted by fellow travelers (his own constituents?), who posted photos of Cruz in the airport and on the airplane. Cruz tried to […]
Thursday, February 18, 2021
Vox has an interesting interactive infographic showing just who has died from Covid-19 in the US, broken down by age, race, and region (urban vs. rural). We already understand that people of color are twice as likely to die from the pandemic than white people. But did you know that even though the elderly are […]
Monday, February 15, 2021
The Republicans were too chickenshit to convict Trump, even though most of them admitted that he is guilty. So they let him off on a technicality (and a pretty lame one at that). I think we have uncovered a pretty severe flaw in our political system, but I have no idea how we can fix […]
Saturday, February 13, 2021
Watch this until the end.
Thursday, February 11, 2021
Published in the Daily Mail: Embattled QAnon congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene ‘openly cheated’ on her husband of 25 years with a polyamorous tantric sex guru and then moved on to another affair with the manager at her gym. I guess she has more than one thing in common with Trump. She’s a cheater.
Tuesday, February 9, 2021
Republican media continues to complain loud and long about how Trumpists are being censored and silenced, and “the base” continues to eat up this hypocrisy. But the real irony is that it is all about the money. Now the money they have made stirring up resentment and anger is being cancelled by the lawsuits being […]
Saturday, February 6, 2021
A fascinating article in Time Magazine talks about ways that cities are changing their economic systems. They focus on Amsterdam, but it turns out that there are cities all over the world that are doing this. This is related to the rise of “B Corporations“. Most corporations are “C Corporations” (although there are also “S […]
This post probably isn’t about what you think it might be about from the title. It is about the curious fact that countries and US states with conservative leaders are doing a better job of getting people vaccinated than countries with progressive leaders. This comes from an interesting article in (of all places) the NY […]
Thursday, February 4, 2021
Randy Rainbow to the rescue. Two comments: Didn’t anyone ever teach her to wear a mask properly? When she says “Q is a patriot”, Randy should have pointed out that Q has already abandoned her. From the NY Times: But since Mr. Trump’s defeat, Q has gone dark. No posts from the account bearing Q’s […]
