Rep. Jaime Herrera-Butler (R-WA) probably will be re-elected. Age 41, now serving her 7th term in Congress, Herrera-Butler’s never had a “real” job. She’s a career politician, of the sort wingnuts want to “term limit.” They have another reason for term-limiting he[...]
Archive for April, 2022
April 20th, 2022 - 1:20 pm § in Politics, Schools & Colleges
Republicans can’t count
Rep. Debbie Lesko (R-AZ), a Trumper election denier (details here), not only can’t read an election result, but can’t count warm bodies wading across the Rio Grande and climbing over fences, either. She tweeted on Tuesday, April 19, 2022, “Border Patrol agents have apprehended more tha[...]
April 20th, 2022 - 2:23 am § in Health, Law and Courts
Does the judge who struck down airline mask mandates know what she’s doing?
“You’ve probably heard by now that Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle, a Trump-appointed judge in Florida, issued a sweeping opinion striking down the Biden administration’s requirement that passengers wear masks on airplanes, trains, and similar methods of transportation,” Vox said here [...]
No, police won’t be defunded
And bail reform is likely to fall victim to rising crime, too. “Defund the police,” interpreted literally, was always a bad idea. But it was mostly a slogan and rallying cry for police reform, and such “defunding” efforts as were undertaken were modest in scope and aimed at r[...]
April 19th, 2022 - 9:50 pm § in Misc.
Frittering away your life playing Microsoft Solitaire
Technically, Microsoft Klondike Solitaire. I didn’t know its history; Vox says (here) it’s been around since 1990, is likely the most popular computer game of all time, and “Microsoft took the original design … from an intern who has never made a cent off the game,” whi[...]
April 19th, 2022 - 9:24 pm § in Economics
How a hospital plans to fight a nurses’ strike
By suspending their health benefits. Employees don’t get paid when they go out on strike, and the employer can suspend their benefits, too. But it’s not common practice in the health care industry, and not a good look for a hospital, especially one affiliated with a highly respected medi[...]
How to launch a conspiracy theory
Ask Peter McIndoe, 23, a former psychology student. He’s an expert on this. Not intentionally. After the 2016 election, which Trump won, there were protests. During the Women’s March, McIndoe saw “counterprotesters, who were older, bigger white men” who he felt “had no busi[...]
April 18th, 2022 - 3:13 pm § in News Media
How a (married) Fox host gets dates
Fox host Jesse Watters, by his own admission, wanted to date a young producer (even though he was married at the time). So here’s what he did: “When I was trying to get Emma to date me, the first thing I did was let the air out of her tires,” Watters said. “She couldn’t go […][...]
April 18th, 2022 - 2:25 pm § in Politics
How do you define a “fair election”?
Rioting, phoned death threats to election workers, and sham audits didn’t work, so now they want to run elections themselves. And they have their own ideas about what a “fair election” is. For example, in Ohio, former GOP legislator John Adams is running for secretary of state, the[...]
Trucker protest has a new problem
When they drove circles around D.C., you didn’t hear much about them, because there wasn’t much to hear about except drivers flipping them off. Well, there is now. Daily Beast reports: “Many things have given the People’s Convoy problems, from Beltway commuters flipping them [...]