Even by politician standards, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is a pathetic hack. Interpreting him is easy: He’ll criticize anything Democratic, and defend anything Republican. This time he’s defending an accused pedophile. He called any GOP senators who might vote against confirming Gaetz as[...]
Archive for November, 2024
What Carl Sagan and Mark Twain said about beliefs
Carl Sagan, astronomer and scientist: “What is faith? It is belief in the absence of evidence. Now I don’t propose to tell anybody what to believe, but for me, believing when there’s no compelling evidence is a mistake. The idea is to withhold belief until there is compelling evidence.” Mark[...]
When ya got nuthin, read their poetry to ’em
That’s how far Republicans went trying to block a Biden judicial appointment. Nowadays it’s a given that Republicans will oppose any Biden judicial appointee. It hasn’t always been that way; there used to be more Senate courtesy, but we’re now living in the era of hyper-par[...]
GOP senate candidate blames loss on vague “irregularities”
Eric Hovde is a silver spooner, the scion of a Wisconsin banking and real estate family. He wants to be a U.S. senator, but so far no dice. Hovde (photo below, profiled here) lost in 2012 to a popular GOP governor, and lost again in 2024 to Sen. Tammy Baldwin (bio here), the Democratic incumbent. [&[...]
November 18th, 2024 - 5:23 pm § in Politics, Republicans
Kari Lake pays up for lying about election official
Arizona election denier Kari Lake falsely accused Stephen Richter, a fellow Republican and Maricopa County election official, of stealing the 2022 governor’s election from her. Richter, whose family was threatened, sued Lake for defamation. She didn’t dispute liability (see story here), [...]
November 18th, 2024 - 1:37 pm § in Law and Courts
Why we need a felony murder law
Israel hanged Adolf Eichmann for his complicity in the murder of 6 million Jews even though he didn’t personally kill anyone. His role in the Holocaust was “collecting information on the Jews in each area, organizing the seizure of their property, and arranging for and scheduling trains&[...]
November 18th, 2024 - 12:28 pm § in Donald Trump, Law and Courts
Ex-soldier and war criminal sentenced for Jan. 6 rioting
The photo below isn’t of a military unit; these dudes aren’t soldiers at all, they’re Jan. 6 rioters. In fact, Edward Richmond Jr. of Geismar, Louisiana (in middle of photo), was court-martialed and dishonorably discharged for murdering a handcuffed Iraqi civilian prisoner. Richmon[...]
Student protests: Enforcing laws or repression?
Nowadays when people discuss protests, the subject usually is pro-Palestinian protesters, so that’s what I’ll discuss in this posting. That’s because Black Lives Matter marches have receded into history, and there won’t be a Democratic version of January 6 though I’m su[...]
Stupid governor brings tiger to football game
Who makes a tiger ride all the way from Florida to Louisiana, a trip of 704 miles (I looked it up), to pace in a cage before 100,000 screaming football fans? Louisiana’s stupid Republican governor that’s who. LSU discontinued this sordid practice years ago. The school owns a mascot tiger[...]
November 17th, 2024 - 12:28 am § in Donald Trump
Is this the last National Weather Service storm alert?
Western Washington is under a winter storm alert this weekend, November 17-18, 2024, with rain and gusty winds expected in the Puget Sound lowlands and heavy snow in the mountains potentially closing the major highway passes (see story here). This weather forecast and storm warning came from the Nat[...]