It increasingly appears Trump chose his #2 too hastily. Vance’s youth and inexperience Vance’s toxic ties to rightwing venture capitalists Vance’s connection to extremist “Project 2025” Vance’s awkward “childless cat ladies” slur Vance’s idea to tax people for not having chil[...]
Archive for July, 2024
July 26th, 2024 - 6:19 pm § in Misc.
The $2 million song (video)
That’s how much the Olympics paid Celine Dion to perform this 3½-minute song in the rain from an Eiffel Tower platform. She sang it in French, which is her first language, having been born in French-speaking Quebec. Dion has performed this song before (e.g., here); you can compare her renditi[...]
July 26th, 2024 - 1:29 am § in Politics
Gerald Ford predicted how a woman president would happen (video)
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Three kinds of facts
There are three major categories of facts. Real facts represent reality. Legal facts are used to decide legal cases, and may bear a resemblance to real facts. Political facts serve partisan interests, and range from half-truths to fantasy. The FBI director’s testimony on July 25, 2024, that [...]
July 25th, 2024 - 1:39 pm § in Russia
Moscow’s deadly windows
Her country facing spiraling inflation as the Ukraine war rages on (see story here), a top Russian economist somehow fell out of her Moscow apartment window, Russian media reported Tuesday (story here). Moscow’s windows sure are dangerous. Numerous prominent Russian officials have taken the plung[...]
Is Oklahoma the worst state?
It’s sure trying to be. Peruse the list below of my previous posts about Oklahoma. But first, the reason for this post is the state schools superintendent’s thinly-disguised efforts to impose mandatory Bible instruction on Oklahoma public schools. This isn’t especially shocking, gi[...]
GOP legislator demands speeding privileges
Justine Wadsack (photo, left) was pulled over by a Tucson cop for driving 71 mph in a 35 mph zone on March 15, 2024. She wasn’t immediately cited because she’s a state senator, and Arizona legislators enjoy immunity from arrest while in session, but they can be prosecuted after the legis[...]
GOP senator calls migrants “garbage”
Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) is a bad politician, and not a very good human being either. Tuberville rode into the U.S. Senate on name familiarity and sports mania, defeating the former U.S. Attorney who sent two Klansmen to prison for the 1964 Birmingham church bombing. The last time I posted about[...]
Even GOPers think Vance is a mistake
The “most striking thing … heard from Trump allies yesterday was the second-guessing of JD Vance—a selection, they acknowledged, that was borne of cockiness,” MSNBC said on Tuesday, July 23, 2024, a day after Kamala Harris became Trump’s opponent. Trump made the choice, and th[...]
Why cats love cat ladies
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