This article contains news and sarcastic liberal commentary. “Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s wife asked State Department staff to help send personal family Christmas cards,” CNN reported on Monday, September 14, 2020. Toni Porter, an aide, told the House Foreign Affairs Committee[...]
Archive for September 14th, 2020
Oregon deputy suspended for inciting vigilantes
This article contains news and liberal opinion. Oregon police and fire agencies are having to devote resources to combating the false rumors. Now, one of the Clackamas County Sheriff’s own deputies is accused of helping to propagate those rumors. The deputy also is accused of inciting vigilant[...]
Trump aide laughably warns of “leftist insurrection”
This article is news and liberal commentary. Which is almost amusing, because rightwing extremists have most of the AR-15s in circulation in this country. Also, consider the source, the notorious Michael Caputo (photo at right), a Roger Stone protege, whose ties to Russia were “so concerning[...]
GOP hoaxer gets caught staging fake FBI raid on himself
If you see the name “Jacob Wohl” on anything, write it off as a hoax. Because it is. That includes today’s FBI raid on Wohl’s partner in intellectual crimes, Jack Burkman, which was staged by Wohl and Burkman with actors hired through Craigslist posing as FBI agents. The sche[...]
Karen kalls kops on census worker
A Houston woman called police on a black man “in front of my neighbor’s house” because “he doesn’t have a reason to be here” and is making a “political statement.” He’s a census taker, and his final repartee to the woman dubbed “F***YouKaren” on social m[...]
Lincoln’s hair fetches $81,250
A few 2-inch strands of Lincoln’s hair fetched $81,250 at auction on Saturday, September 12, 2020, ABC News reports. Read story here. It’s not the same item shown at left. In fact, when I started nosing around on the internet I found a lot of these, and learned they typically sell for $2[...]
Fires in world’s largest wetland are decimating wildlife
An ecological disaster is unfolding in South America as thousands of fires sweep across Brazil’s dried-out Pantanal wetland, a gigantic wildlife-rich floodplain which Wikipedia says “includes essential sanctuaries for migratory birds, critical nursery grounds for aquatic life, and refuge[...]
Toxic Flag Syndrome
A single exposure to the US flag shifts support towards the Republican Party for up to eight months (T. J. Carter et al. Psychol. Sci. 22, 1011–1018; 2011). There is scant evidence that incidental cues in the environment significantly alter people’s political judgments and behavior in a [...]