From what? Union wages? Women controlling their own bodies? Queer people? In a townhall on Sunday, June 4, 2023 (read story here), she wouldn’t get specific about abortion. Women voters are entitled to assume she would sign a nationwide ban, because that’s what Republicans are enacting [...]
Archive for June, 2023
June 4th, 2023 - 8:00 pm § in Misc.
Who paid for this highway?
Not the people who live here. As of 2021, building a rural two-lane highway like this one in eastern Washington probably costs about 1½ to 2 million dollars per mile (source here). The locals can’t possibly pay enough taxes to cover that cost. The gas taxes that built it were paid by Seattle [...]
June 4th, 2023 - 1:12 am § in Politics
D.C. has the best protests
Honking horns! sirens! confrontations! You can get that in lots of cities, but only Washington D.C. has a live streamer calling herself “Anarchy Princess” who marches in front of Jan. 6 sympathizers shouting into a megaphone: “Terrorists coming, watch out, there’s terrorists behind m[...]
June 3rd, 2023 - 9:21 pm § in Politics
Don’t blame him for Boebert
Wallace Stanfield Lane, aka Stan Lane (photo, left), is off the hook. New DNA testing conclusively proves that Lane, a former pro wrestler (bio here), is not Lauren Boebert’s father (see story here). He did have a fling with Boebert’s mom around that time, and she pursued him for child s[...]
If you pass a law against climate change, it’ll happen anyway
State Sen. Jerry Cirino (photo, left; profile here), an Ohio Republican, is sponsoring a bill that “designates climate policy as a ‘controversial belief or policy.’” On a purely abstract plane, a climate “belief or policy” could be controversial if, say, it posits tha[...]
June 2nd, 2023 - 6:43 pm § in Donald Trump, News Media
How CNN lost its way
For decades, CNN was a preeminent news source, notable for 24-hour, round-the-clock coverage — the network that never went to bed. Launched in 1980 by Ted Turner, the cable network’s nonstop news show was especially prominent during the 1990 Gulf War, when CNN was still independent. Its [...]
June 2nd, 2023 - 12:12 pm § in Politics, Republicans
Arrested for raising bail money for protesters
Three Georgia activists were arrested by a heavily-armed SWAT team and charged with financial crimes for soliciting donations to a bail fund for protesters against a controversial cop training facility (see story here). “The Georgia Bureau of Investigation announced its agents and Atlanta poli[...]
June 2nd, 2023 - 4:01 am § in Law and Courts
Guns are changing American life
An entire generation of American kids are growing up in fear of being gunned down in their classrooms, or shot at a shopping mall. The NRA likes to say, “An armed society is a polite society,” but the data say otherwise. Guns are now the leading cause of death of Americans under age 19 ([...]
June 2nd, 2023 - 2:29 am § in Misc.
Yellowstone isn’t a petting zoo
How stupid can people be? A downside of phone cameras and social media is people trying to get eye-catching videos. In the process, they’re falling off cliffs and getting gored by wild animals. The “Yellowstone” series captured this idiocy in a scene here which, while fiction, is r[...]
Biden and the sandbag
Republicans want you to believe Biden is too old for another term. That’s doubtful, but even if true, isn’t a good enough reason to elect any Republican presently in the field. Amusingly, Republicans who question Biden’s mental faculties are complaining he outsmarted them in debt c[...]