GOP state legislator Sarah Fowler Arthur (photo, left), who sponsored a bill to ban teaching “divisive concepts” (read: critical race theory) in Ohio schools, explains her tilting at windmills as follows: “What we do not want is for someone to come in and say, ‘Well, obviously the Ge[...]
Archive for March, 2022
QAnon group sends gunmen to Colorado voters’ homes
In Colorado, a pro-Trump QAnon group is sending gunmen to voters’ homes. They impersonate government officials by wearing fake badges and knock on doors “in areas with large numbers of voters of color, questioning people about how they voted and taking photographs of their homes,” [...]
Can Cyprus replace Russia as Europe’s natural gas supplier?
Before the sanctions, Europe imported nearly 40% of its natural gas supply from Russia, in part via pipelines through Ukraine. The invasion is making European leaders rethink their economies’ dependence on Russian gas. But the idea of cutting the energy cord with Russia isn’t new.[...]
March 22nd, 2022 - 5:52 pm § in Politics
McConnell waffles on GOP accused wife-beater
GOP Senate leader Mitch McConnell either can’t decide, or doesn’t want to say, whether a Republican candidate accused of physically abusing his wife and children should drop out of Missouri’s 2022 Senate race. “Well look I think all of the developments of the last 24 hours ar[...]
GOP senator struggles with interracial marriage question
Once upon a time interracial marriage was illegal in Virginia and numerous other states. (In fact, even looking at a white woman could get a black kid killed.) These racist laws were struck down in Loving v. Virginia, a 1967 Supreme Court decision (details here). A perplexed Sen. Mike Braun (R-IN, [...]
4 things Putin got wrong
Kirill Rogov, a Russian political analyst (C.V. here), says Putin’s Ukraine war is “lost” and an “epic failure,” and propounds 4 major mistakes: “The mistake was the notion that the West was unwilling to resist aggression, that it was lethargic, greedy and divided.” “[...]
What did Grant eat for breakfast?
Cucumbers soused in vinegar, washed down with coffee. No, this isn’t a “who’s buried in Grant’s tomb” joke, it’s a historical fact which I found in a book by highly reputable historian. Grant, the Civil War’s greatest general (sorry, Lee fans, but he was), w[...]
Hawley’s hypocrisy
Eric Greitens (photo, left; profile here), a former governor of Missouri who was forced to resign in disgrace, is trying for a comeback in the 2022 Missouri GOP Senate primary. It doesn’t help that he’s an accused wife-beater, too, and also allegedly smacked the kids around, too (read st[...]
March 21st, 2022 - 7:07 pm § in Politics
Ted Crud’s airport meltdown
Montana airport employees called the police (photo, left) on “Cancun Ted” Cruz (R-TX) when he threw a toddler tantrum over missing his flight to Washington D.C. It wasn’t their fault he missed the check-in window, or that replacement seats were hard to come by because Cruz was trav[...]
March 21st, 2022 - 2:41 pm § in Misc.
Hitler couldn’t kill him; Putin did
Borys Romanchenko (photo, left), 96, was a Holocaust victim who survived Buchenwald, Peenemünde, Dora, and Bergen-Belsen. He would have been 19 years old in April 1945, so it’s amazing he survived the camps. In recent years, was vice-president of the Buchenwald-Dora International Committee, a[...]