If you’ve seen the movie “Django Unchained,” the lead character, a slave named Django, prolifically blows away (or blows up) the bad guys. (Plot details here, and watch video below.) Trump ain’t no gunfighter. He can’t make money in business against competition. He can&[...]
Archive for January, 2022
January 17th, 2022 - 1:22 am § in Foreign Affairs, Health
Get vaccinated or walk
People in Manila, Philippines, must be fully vaccinated against Covid-19 to ride on public transportation starting Monday, January 17, 2022, ABC News reported here. The edict was issued because the country’s infections are up 40 times since Christmas. There’s squawking, of course, but no[...]
January 16th, 2022 - 11:41 pm § in Environment, Misc.
Tonga tsunami in California (video)
A tsunami from a massive underwater volcanic eruption in Tonga on Friday, January 14, 2022, struck the California coast the next day after traveling over 5,000 miles. This wave isn’t water from Tonga, it’s California water. In a tsunami or other wave, the water doesn’t travel, only[...]
I hope Stew Rhodes goes to prison
Stewart Rhodes, founder of the Oath Keepers militia group, was indicted last week for seditious conspiracy. He could get 20 years. I hope he does. Rhodes, 56, is a Yale Law School graduate who practiced criminal law in Montana. He’s not a lawyer anymore; he was disbarred in 2015. Now it’[...]
Gov. Inslee’s stupid idea
“I guess it was inevitable, as political tribalism rises, that the impulse would also grow to simply suppress stuff that one camp or another sees as wrong or dangerous or uncomfortable,” Seattle Times columnist Danny Westneat writes here. Republicans certainly are doing that with their l[...]
January 16th, 2022 - 2:12 am § in Donald Trump, Politics
Listen to threats against election workers in this video (nsfw)
These are Trump Republicans; this is what the GOP is now. (Graphic language, NSFW.) Even if Republican elected and party officials don’t openly encourage this behavior, they do nothing to stop it, either. (See story here.) And why aren’t police arresting these people? Since when is haras[...]
Is the Big Quit actually a mass strike?
America experienced mass strikes after the end of both world wars. For example, in 1946, 10% of the U.S. workforce struck employers. The reason? Companies had made a lot of money during the war, and they wanted their share. What makes a “mass strike” different from an ordinary strike is [...]
How Republicans plan to seize power
“Republicans” used to describe adherents of one of America’s two major political parties; but more recently, the term has come to denote a broad cultural movement with specific aims, characteristics, and implications — with quite a few tribal traits. For that reason, some peo[...]
January 15th, 2022 - 6:25 pm § in Health
How to respond to Covid deniers when they’re dying
Yes, I know. But, really, not like this. (To learn about the more nuanced approach adopted by a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, go here.) The decent and civilized thing to do is to keep them in your thoughts, pray for their recovery, and after that fails, express your sympathy to the surviving fa[...]
January 15th, 2022 - 2:18 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
Capitol lost and found
“Many people who participated in the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection called the House Speaker’s office the next day asking about a lost and found,” Huffington Post says (read story here). That’s a great idea for next time! Here’s how it would work. You lay the stuff out on long [...]