More evidence the Covid-19 crisis is mismanaged? Earlier this week, this blog picked up a story of a South Carolina teacher who died just 3 days after first displaying Covid-19 symptoms. (Read that posting here.) Then, a couple days later, Newsweek reported that “six teachers in Iowa, Mississi[...]
Archive for September, 2020
Republican academic says today’s GOP isn’t worth saving
Thomas M. Nichols is a professor at the U.S. Naval War College whose work “deals with issues involving Russia, nuclear weapons, and national security affairs,” according to his Wikipedia bio. He has a B.A. from Boston University, an M.A. from Columbia, and a Ph.D. from Georgetown; taught[...]
September 11th, 2020 - 1:42 am § in News Media
Police union boss doxes reporter and jokes about it
This article contains news with snarky liberal satire. The Seattle police union’s president is being investigated for allegedly publishing the reporter’s press pass on social media, a Seattle TV station reported on Thursday, September 10, 2020. Read story here. Reporter David Obelcz accu[...]
September 11th, 2020 - 12:12 am § in Misc.
6-time felon kills 97-year-old granny
An Everett, Washington, gang member “accused of trafficking in crack cocaine was sentenced to more than 11 years in federal prison Friday,” December 5, 2008, the Everett Herald reported. “Prosecutors say Darwin Caldwell, 30, … sold crack cocaine” and “also was acc[...]
Speak Chinese!
This article contains news with sarcastic commentary. The Chinese word “neige” (內閣, assuming Google Translate works, but I won’t vouch for that; I may actually be talking about kitchen cabinets) is not the American slang word “——” (“——&[...]
Trump official wasted taxpayer $$$millions on image burnishing
This article is news with liberal commentary. Trump’s top Medicaid official, Seema Verma, paid consultants at least $3.5 million of taxpayer money for anti-Obamacare messaging and polishing her image, Newsweek reported on September 10, 2020. The money was used to get her on panels, podcasts, T[...]
Do you know left from right?
This article is independently confused political satire. Or maybe just dyslexic. When we say “left” we usually mean left, and when we say right we usually mean right. I say “usually” because, for some reason, I always put conservatives to my left and liberals to my right. Wik[...]
September 10th, 2020 - 3:05 pm § in Misc.
Breonna Taylor shooting goes to grand jury
Kentucky’s attorney general, a Republican, will begin presenting evidence against the police officers who killed Breonna Taylor in a botched drug raid to a grand jury next week, NBC News reported on Thursday, September 10, 2020. Read story here. In most states, criminal suspects can either be [...]
September 10th, 2020 - 2:28 pm § in Misc.
Trump knew Covid-19 was serious but “didn’t want people to panic”
Trump says he knew Covid-19 was serious, but downplayed it because, “I didn’t want people to panic.” Here’s what’s wrong with that: They believed it was a hoax. They didn’t social distance. They didn’t wear masks. They spread it. Now America has a crisis that didn&[...]
9.11.01 … Who Won?
I have a different take. Much of what happened that day was not the achievement of the Saudi terrorists (let be honest about who they were) but the result of the incompetence or malfeasance of GW Bush and his Rasputin, Dick Cheney. By Steve Schwartz, theaveeditor, 5/13/19 Bush and Cheney cannot be[...]