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Archive for April, 2022
You don’t want this license plate!
Jonny Hayes of Covington, Washington, doesn’t even have his personalized license plate yet, but is already getting dozens of parking tickets from places he’s never been. The plate lettering he chose is “UNKNOWN.” “We feel bad for him. We really do. It’s unfortunate. It r[...]
Request to GOP: Can we have some leaders?
Karl Marx famously said, “the masses are asses,” to justify what he called a “dictatorship of the proletariat” that turned out to be just another plain old dictatorship. The idea of representative democracy is to entrust ultimate authority for decision-making to the collectiv[...]
April 17th, 2022 - 2:46 pm § in News Media, Politics
Another shooting, another GOP rant without solutions
Forgive me for yawning; I can’t help it. This is getting tiresome. As you know, a 62-year-old drifter wounded 10 people on a New York City subway last week. Police quickly arrested him, and we know he has a dozen prior misdemeanor arrests. He’s almost certainly mentally ill, but was able[...]
April 17th, 2022 - 9:48 am § in Misc.
Easter: The Bunny
While you’re biting the heads off your chocolate bunnies this weekend, you might wonder how cartoon rabbits became so central to our Easter celebrations. It’s tempting to assume that because there’s no biblical basis for the Easter Bunny, rabbits and hares have no religious significance – bu[...]
April 17th, 2022 - 2:27 am § in News Media, Politics
Jerk kicked off train for anti-gay rant
He just couldn’t mind his own business. A bigot on an Amtrak train decided to lecture the 6-year-old son of a gay couple. “Remember what I told you! Marriage is between a man and a woman. They stole you, and they’re pedophiles.” The couple notified Amtrak staff, and the train’s con[...]
Chief hired to reform America’s worst police department fired; did the police union get her?
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[...]
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[...]