I don’t understand why some people claim that product boycotts are an attempt to silence free speech. After all, the Citizens United decision clearly established that money was free speech (especially it is money given to politicians for their campaigns!). So isn’t my choice of what products to buy also free speech? Which brings us […]
A thirty-year-old went to a “COVID party”, where someone who has tested positive for the disease gets together with people who want to know if the disease is a hoax, by seeing if it gets transmitted to them. It did. The thirty-year-old ended up in the hospital. Just before they died, they said to the […]
Like many people, I’m curious what the future will look like after we spend a few years fighting the novel coronavirus into some kind of submission. Andy Slavitt, who was the Medicare, Medicaid, and ACA head for president Obama, talked to three scientists and came away with the conclusion “There is a Light at the […]
Two weeks after Donald Trump held an in-person rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, COVID-19 cases are surging in that city. Since the rally, the number of new cases has more than tripled, setting new records highs. This, despite the fact that the rally fizzled, attended by less than a third of the capacity of the venue. […]
Another day, another killer ad from the Lincoln Project. This one goes after the GOP senators who were too chickenshit to say no to Donald Trump, and instead repeatedly kissed his rear and enabled the destruction of our country.
Donald Trump says that the cure must not be worse than the disease, and is trying very hard to jump-start the US economy by eliminating public health interventions, including reopening most retail businesses, eliminating quarantines, and (strangely enough) discouraging the wearing of masks. Now they are even trying to force schools to reopen in the […]
The NY Times got an early copy of the book by Mary Trump, Donald Trump’s only niece, titled “Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man”. They just published an article about it. The book answers a question that I’ve wondered about Donald Trump: how did he get into […]
Democrats have been trying to pass a law that would require political campaigns to report any offers from foreign nationals to make campaign donations or to coordinate with a campaign. But Republicans keep blocking it, even though the law would apply to both Democrats and Republicans. So expect even more foreign interference with the upcoming […]
I could sure use some good news. And lucky for us, there is some! The news today is completely dominated by the COVID-19 pandemic, Black Lives Matter, and the upcoming election. But there are other important stories, and in one of them — global warming and climate change — we have very good news. You […]
On this day, the day after the US Independence Day, it is good to listen to words that were spoken by the great Frederick Douglass on July 5, 1852, less than a decade before the start of the Civil War. In this video from NPR, excerpts of his speech are read by 5 of his […]
Newsweek published an article Friday titled “How Trump could Lose the Election — And Still Remain President“. It is an opinion piece, but was written by two fairly high-powered people (a former US senator, and the person who founded CNBC and MSNBC, the former CEO of TiVo, and is an editor-at-large for Newsweek, among other […]
I’m concerned about voter registration in Mississippi. The blacks are having lots of events for voter registration. People in Mississippi have to get involved, too. — Mississippi election commissioner Gail Welch. How can Black Lives Matter, if they aren’t people? And speaking of black lives, here’s a July 1 tweet from former Republican presidential candidate […]
Q: Why is the guy in the red shirt not wearing a mask? A: Because he’s a Republican. If you are not a Star Trek fan, you might not get this joke. Read this about Redshirts, and how it is their job to get killed.
Which is it? What’s just as damning is that Trump keeps changing his story. First he claimed he was never briefed. Then he claimed that in the briefing (which he says he never had) there was no consensus as to the validity of the report. Now he’s claiming the report is a hoax and fake […]
Why do some people refuse to wear masks? A few people actually cannot wear a mask, for various reasons. I read a post from a person who said they could not wear a mask, and they would get nasty looks and shaming the few times that they dared to venture out. If you cannot wear […]
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