Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO), who raised a clenched-fist salute in solidarity with violent rioters trying to overthrow the 2020 election (photo, left), ignored “a Christian-backed medical insurance company” that was stealing from his constituents when he was Missouri attorney general (read st[...]
Archive for March, 2023
Be serious if you want to be taken seriously
Marianne Williamson (photo, left) is running for president again, and it appears she’s heeding that advice this time. When she sought the Democratic nomination in 2020 in an open field, she came off as a quirky eccentric. Her campaign largely consisted of verbal zingers like “harnessing [...]
Pence didn’t suddenly find religion
Ex-vice president Mike Pence is finally criticizing Trump. You know, Trump, the guy who incited a mob to chant “hang Mike Pence!” On Saturday, March 11, 2023, Pence declaimed, ““President Trump was wrong, I had no right to overturn the election. And his reckless words endangered [...]
March 12th, 2023 - 11:28 pm § in Law and Courts
Texas death factory
No, not the Mexican border. The courtrooms of Harris County, Texas. This county’s judges send more people to death row than any other U.S. county. This isn’t some out of the way place where justice is meted out by cowboy judges to hapless defendants represented by country lawyers. Harris[...]
Why are banks failing again?
Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) failed on Friday, March 10, 2023. Government officials scrambled to reassure the public their deposits aren’t in danger. Are they? At the larger banks, at least, probably not. To begin with, the FDIC insures individual depositors against up to $250,000 of losses. This[...]
Lauren Boebert, 36, a grandmother
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO), 36, got knocked up in high school and dropped out. She wouldn’t get her GED until 16 years later, just months before the voters of western Colorado elected her to Congress. Well, now her son (photo, left) is 17 and a high school senior, too. Following in his mother&[...]
March 11th, 2023 - 8:05 pm § in Misc.
What’s a T-Rex worth?
We’re going to find out. Only 32 whole T-Rex skeletons exist in the entire world, and the last two to be auctioned sold for $8.7 million in 1997 (photo, left) and $31.8 million in 2020. A T-Rex skeleton named “Trinity,” actually the bones of three creatures, will be auctioned in Sw[...]