Many professional actors, not to mention countless schoolchildren, have taken a stab at the Gettysburg Address. I don’t know what the original was like; I wasn’t there. Today all we have is descriptions left behind by witnesses, such Sarah A. Cooke Myers, who in 1931 was quoted as saying[...]
Archive for January, 2023
January 13th, 2023 - 11:13 pm § in Misc.
1/13/23 cold case updates
It’s been awhile since we’ve heard any news about two big world-attention-grabbing searches, so let’s see if these cases are any closer to being solved. Supreme Court leaker: The Wall Street Journal reports Supreme Court investigators have whittled down the list of suspects to R[...]
January 13th, 2023 - 10:45 pm § in Politics, Republicans
The Kari Lake Comedy Hour
Yes, it’s come to this: Defeated GOP candidate Kari Lake is a comedian. She’s made herself a laughingstock, not by refusing to concede, or her sore-loser attitude, but by the crazy stuff she says. Last week she called herself the “real and duly elected” governor of Arizona, e[...]
Was it worth it? (nsfw)
Jonathan Reeser used to manage day-to-day operations, including supervising employees, at Patients Choice Laboratories in Indianapolis. Emboldened by a sense of either self-righteousness or impunity, or perhaps a generous helping of both, he tweeted the message at left to Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) u[...]
Which party runs up the debt may surprise you
This happens for a couple reasons. First, Republicans don’t spend less than Democrats; they just spend on different stuff. Second, government revenues suffer when Republicans slash taxes for the rich. Their latest gambit: Repeal IRS funding to catch rich tax cheaters. Third, it’s part of[...]
January 12th, 2023 - 6:14 pm § in America, Biden, Donald Trump, Foreign Affairs, Politics, Republicans
Be careful who you trust with the nuclear codes
Part of America’s freedom is that we can elect our leaders. That has downsides, although so far not enough to replace democracy with some other system. One of the bigger downsides is that you might get a leader like Trump. America’s voters should think hard before they do that again. Tha[...]
January 12th, 2023 - 5:38 pm § in Misc.
Do you think government should prevent animal abuse?
Democrats believe in government regulation of private business, while Republicans generally oppose it. Rules are essential for a civilized society to function. The law of the jungle belongs in the jungle. Arguments should be over details, not whether we’re going to have and enforce rules of be[...]
DeSantis is pulling guns on black voters
Add Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who wants to be president, to the list of armed Republicans brandishing guns at polling places. In 2018, Florida voters approved a state constitutional amendment that restored voting rights to felons who’ve completed their sentences, except those convicted of mur[...]
Trump’s Supreme Court is a hanging court
The Supreme Court is no longer a place you can go to stop the execution of an innocent person, or of someone whose sentencing was influenced by racial bias. Since 2019, when Trump put his first two appointees on the court, the new conservative court majority hasn’t accepted a single death pena[...]
Biden vs. Trump classified documents (chart)
Biden’s defenders can argue all they want that his possession of classified documents at his private office and residence, which were immediately handed over to the government, isn’t the same as Trump’s willful attempts to retain a much larger cache of classified documents. But the[...]