A week ago, in Houston, a 25-year-old man jumped on top of an 18-wheeler and started dancing — and almost immediately was knocked off by a bridge, fell into traffic below, and died at a local hospital. The unfortunate incident happened on Thursday, November 10, 2022. Read story here. Return to[...]
Archive for November, 2022
GOP House chaos begins
House GOPers unveil their #1 legislative priority: Investigating Hunter Biden. Read story here House GOPers give warm welcome to vigilante Kyle Rittenhouse. Read story here Herschel Walker teaches Sen. Warnock about parenthood. Read story here Pro-Russia GOP faction seeks to cut off Ukraine ai[...]
GOP “election integrity” legislator signed his daughter’s absentee ballots in 3 elections
A Michigan state senator who campaigned in 2020 on election integrity (and won re-election) signed absentee ballots issued to his daughter in 2010 and for the 2016 primary and general elections. When confronted about the 2010 ballot, he accused his ex-wife of signing it. The signatures on the 2016 b[...]
November 16th, 2022 - 2:10 pm § in Politics, Republicans
Pro tip: Recruit better candidates
Bud Marty May, 37, ran for South Dakota legislature and lost to his mother. A few days later, he was arrested for rape. May allegedly “decided to force himself on the victim in a bathroom stall at a bar,” according to a local TV station, and told the victim, “I am 6′8, white, it [...]
Why the Arizona governor’s race was called, and Kari Lake’s b.s. response
It was called by media outlets by Democrat Hobbs leads by 20,000 votes, and only 15,000 ballots remain to be counted. Needless to say, Trump — not deterred by simple arithmetic — blasted the media for calling the race. He said, “Wow! They just took the election away from Kari Lake.[...]
Why some Republicans are souring on Trump
It’s simple, really. He’s a loser, dragging them down with him. Trump may live in a fantasy land (see story here), but people making their living from election returns deal with things like this: “The Atlantic’s Tim Alberta … made an astonishing discovery: 25% to 30% of vot[...]
November 16th, 2022 - 12:48 pm § in Business, Republicans
It’s time to regulate airlines
Lawless capitalism doesn’t work. It just doesn’t. In announcing his 2024 run, bounced-out-of-office ex-president Trump bragged about cutting business regulations during his wild ride in the White House. To anyone who listens, he was giving them another reason not to vote for them. Practi[...]
White Christian nationalism and the false consensus effect
“False consensus effect” is a term sociologists use to describe “when people tend to wrongly think their own views are held by the majority.” An article by two sociology professors in Time magazine says (here), “This happens most often when people are surrounded only by[...]
NASA’s Artemis 1 moonshot is go; watch launch here (video)
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Back by popular demand: Sarah Palin’s turkey video
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