Aurora, Colorado, arguably has America’s worst police department. Its cops are infamous. Their own chief calls them “despicable.” So begins a posting I wrote last year (read it here). Then, Aurora PD was back in the news because of yet another police brutality incident. Now, because the ci[...]
Archive for April 16th, 2022
April 16th, 2022 - 9:27 pm § in Politics
GOP governor’s border stunt will cost you at grocery checkout
And he doesn’t care. Like busing migrants to Washington D.C., Texas GOP Gov. Greg Abbott’s “tighter inspections of trucks entering Texas from Mexico” was political theater, not a serious policy or solution to a problem. Migrants illegally jumping the border from Mexico into T[...]
Why is a GOP legislator shocked her party’s candidate for governor stuck his hand up her dress?
That’s what Republicans are like now, and you have to expect it, ever since Trump gave them permission to do it. What am I talking about? Well, a lot of incidents, but the latest one is this: “Nebraska Republican state Sen. Julie Slama said she was ‘in shock’ when Donald Tru[...]
April 16th, 2022 - 6:22 pm § in Politics
Homophobes get run out of town
Guerneville, pop. 4500, is a northern California ex-logging town that today lives on tourism, especially LGBQT visitors, whom it caters to. That made it a target of anti-gay protesters. So the local residents circled the wagons and ran off the interlopers with gaily colored pizza boxes. Read the hea[...]
Putting Russia’s war in perspective
A Yahoo News article (here) this morning begins, “From the run-up to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and throughout the conflict, Moscow has pursued a strategy of aggressive public dissembling, prevarication and disinformation aimed at creating an alternative reality to explain how events have [...]