It was taken by Associated Press photographer Evan Vucci (bio here), and is a potential Pulitzer Prize winner. The Atlantic calls it “A legendary American photo.” The article gushes, “However you feel about the man at its center, it is undeniably one of the great compositions in U.[...]
Archive for July, 2024
Who was Thomas Matthew Crooks?
Not surprisingly, the 20-year-old white male who tried to assassinate Donald Trump on July 13, 2024, was known as an odd duck. High school classmates remember him as a friendly but quiet loner who kept to himself, dressed oddly in hunting clothes, and was mercilessly bullied. He was intelligent and [...]
Mike Collins and J.D. Vance should resign from Congress
Mike Collins, a first-term GOP congressman from Georgia (bio here), made a splash two months ago with a sick Kennedy joke. Responding to RFK Jr.’s claim “a worm ate part of my brain” (story here), Collins joked, “You either die a Kennedy with a hole in the brain, or live long enough [...]
Project 2025 promotes pollution, ignores climate change
Project 2025, an ultra-conservative blueprint that anticipates Trump will be elected in 2024, looks like it was written by oil industry lobbyists. It “calls for the elimination of multiple energy- and environment-related offices and rules,” The Hill says, and would put political appointe[...]
July 13th, 2024 - 1:00 am § in Politics, Republicans
How Republicans are fighting abortion initiatives
For decades, overturning Roe v. Wade was the holy grail of the right-to-life movement. After grotesque Senate machinations created a pro-life majority on the Supreme Court, they got a decision leaving abortion rights up to the states. What happened next was predictable, given that two-thirds of Amer[...]
Living in Tennessee on $10 an hour
Tennessee is a right-to-work state with a minimum wage of $7.25 an hour. Anita Richey makes $10 an hour, but like most of America’s retail workers, she doesn’t work 40 hours a week (see story here). The industry norm is around 30 hours (see story here). That’s by the employers̵[...]
Thank you for your service, Mr. President
You beat Trump in 2020, and you’ve been a good president, enacting impactful legislation and threading excruciatingly difficult foreign policy needles. Mission accomplished. It’s time to pass the baton; you’re slowing down, you walk stiffly and get confused, even tongue-tied at times, and don�[...]
Thomas and Alito deserve to be impeached
Justice Thomas took millions in undisclosed gifts, and refused to recuse himself from Jan. 6 cases even though his wife was neck-deep in efforts to overthrow the 2020 election, even calling Trump’s chief of staff. Justice Alito also failed to report expensive gifts, including a luxury fishing [...]
GOP congressman bumped from military flight by Democrat horse
When you’re rich, you can have all sorts of things ordinary folks only dream about, like a fancy horse and country estate to keep it at. The gal in the photo is Jacqueline Kennedy, and the horse is Sardar, gifted to her by Pakistan’s president during her goodwill tour of that country in [...]
PHOTOGRAPHY: Screw the HOA
Everyone seems to hate HOAs. They’re the grist of YouTube videos, lawsuits like this and this, and battles over yard ornaments (like this one, photo at left). Now imagine you’re surrounded by HOAs, but not in one, and they try to make you toe their line. That’s what happened to a[...]