Thursday, October 27, 2016
Retired Supreme Court justice David Souter, back in 2012, reminds us of the biggest danger to democracy. His words are prescient given our current election. This clip starts near the end of his talk, but the whole talk is very interesting.
Thursday, October 27, 2016
[Jokes from Oct. 11, 2016] “Trump is still under fire for the lewd and offensive tape that was released last week which he referred to as ‘locker-room talk’. Well now pro athletes are speaking out against this, saying that’s not how they speak in the locker room. While Tim Tebow said, ‘I don’t even like […]
Wednesday, October 26, 2016
Mother Jones came across something that (at least to me) not-so-neatly sums up Donald Trump. The occasion was the 2009 death of Jett Travolta, the 16-year-old son of John Travolta and his wife Kelly Preston, who died of a seizure while on vacation with his parents. Trump decided to offer his condolences. His first mistake […]
Wednesday, October 26, 2016
If anyone actually believes that sexism is not a factor in our current election, Nicholas Kristof has an article for you. All you have to do is try to imagine if the tables were turned: Imagine that Hillary Clinton had had five children by three husbands. That she thought it was ok to refer to […]
Wednesday, October 26, 2016
© Ruben Bolling It does seem like we are living in two different worlds. The only question is, which one is real?
Tuesday, October 25, 2016
Did you doubt for a moment that Donald Trump’s political campaign was being either influenced or even controlled by foreigners? The Telegraph (a conservative UK newspaper) sent undercover reporters to meet with Trump’s Super PAC, “Great America PAC”. The reporters posed as representatives of a (fictitious) Chinese donor, who wanted to donate $2 million to […]
Tuesday, October 25, 2016
A fascinating article written by the DC correspondent for a Canadian newspaper. On a lark, he spent a month counting how many lies were told by Donald Trump each day. His point was that while there was fact checking going on for individual statements made by Trump, the missing story was the sheer number of […]
Bernie Sanders makes an excellent point. Politics isn’t just about who you elect. People have to be willing to fight for what they believe in all the time, not just once every four or eight years. One of the things that distresses me is that often liberals and progressives fight hard to win an election […]
[Jokes from Oct. 10, 2016] “Last night was the presidential town hall debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, and the audience was made up of undecided voters — or as they’re also known, the worst people to be in line behind at Baskin-Robbins.” – Jimmy Fallon “I was looking forward to the presidential debate […]
Did you recognize Tom Hanks playing Chris Wallace? Hanks did almost as good a job as Wallace did. I know you may be tired of hearing about the debates (let alone the third one) but this was actually pretty funny. UPDATE: © Jeff Stahler
© Stephen Nass The Washington Post has a very concise and easy-to-understand explanation of gerrymandering. The article has additional information, but the image above makes most of the big points.
It started innocently enough with a single tweet. A St. Louis mayoral candidate tweeted that Donald Trump was so unprepared for the debate that he sounded like a book report written by someone who hadn’t read the book. And then suddenly, the hashtag #TrumpBookReport was trending on Twitter. A few examples: “Juliet. Such a nasty […]
Saturday, October 22, 2016
Donald Trump attempted to reset his flailing campaign today at a speech in Pennsylvania. So about the women who are accusing him of sexual misconduct he said “All of these liars will be sued.” Nevertheless, I’m willing to make a bold (and maybe crazy) prediction. I could very well be proven wrong, but I suspect […]
Saturday, October 22, 2016
Funny or Die Terry Tate, office linebacker comes out of retirement just in time to save us. This is hilarious. If you have never seen the “office linebacker” commercials, click here so you will get the joke. It’s worth it.
Saturday, October 22, 2016
[Satire from the Onion] Assuring the nation he would work quickly and tirelessly to carry out his agenda, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump reportedly issued a press statement Monday mapping out his first 100 days of not conceding the 2016 election. “I will get to work on day one questioning the final vote tally, and […]
