It shouldn’t take the NAACP to intervene, but when it did, the YMCA sponsors of a swim meet backed down. Leidy Gellona, 12, of Superior, Wisconsin, was told she couldn’t compete in her “Black Lives Matter” swimsuit by a “volunteer official” who claimed it “w[...]
Archive for February, 2022
February 9th, 2022 - 3:23 pm § in Donald Trump
Eating the evidence gets rid of it
Trump played fast and loose with official documents, but we’re only now learning how fast and loose. You probably heard he took 15 boxes of papers to Mar-a-Lago, which the National Archives has retrieved, and government employees had to tape together documents he tore up. But that’s not [...]
February 9th, 2022 - 2:48 pm § in Foreign Affairs
PHOTOGRAPHY: Tableux
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February 9th, 2022 - 11:58 am § in Law and Courts, Politics
GOP’s favorite gun-toting attorneys in license doghouse
A St. Louis lawyer couple who threatened BLM protesters with guns (photo below) are on professional probation for a year. (Story here.) Mark and Patricia McCloskey pled guilty to misdemeanors (see story here), but were pardoned by Missouri’s GOP governor. The McCloskeys, who have a seamy histo[...]
February 8th, 2022 - 10:16 pm § in Environment
PHOTOGRAPHY: Patagonia
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February 8th, 2022 - 10:14 pm § in Environment
PHOTOGRAPHY: Dolphins
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February 8th, 2022 - 4:22 pm § in Health
Does a mask protect you if no one else wears one?
Less, but yes. With the Omicron wave subsiding, and infection rates declining, mask mandates could vanish soon. The virus certainly hasn’t vanished, and is unlikely to anytime soon, if ever. But many Americans are weary of caution, and want to pretend life is normal, even if it can’t be.[...]
February 8th, 2022 - 3:59 pm § in Misc.
Explaining cats (video)
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February 8th, 2022 - 1:44 am § in Politics
At some point, you just laugh at him
“Any act of criminal violence is an assault on justice, which is why we must provide our brave men and women in blue with community support, the resources, and especially the political backing needed to adequately respond to surging crime across the nation,” Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-GA) said on the [...]
How Biden deals with Putin
Biden is something of a Ukraine expert, and now a negotiator with expert knowledge of Putin, having been deeply involved with both for many years. When serving as Obama’s vice president, he made numerous trips to Ukraine at the time it was breaking free of Russian domination under a pro-Moscow[...]