I have many pet peeves and I'm well-versed in the caring and feeding of them all. Among them are common misconceptions, misinformation and disinformation. For those who are uncertain, the difference between the latter two is that misinformation is...
Math isn't always hard but it can get very wonky when enmeshed in the craziness that is the 118th Congress. It's worse in the US House where the GOP's dwindling majority has caused considerable confusion because political pundits and...
Once the holiday break is over, keep an eye out for this one, because it could explode quickly, just like George Santos. And if it does, it will once again place Hakeem Jefferies and the Democrats in the position...
Talk with your mouth full. Bite the hand that feeds you. Bite off more than you can chew. You can dare to be stupid!   Weird Al Yankovic   Dare to be stupid Another day, and the end of yet another sad,...
I would say that the saga of George Santos is so wild that somebody will make a movie out of it, except that somebody already did. Do you recall Eddie Murphy's The Distinguished Gentleman? There's a clip of it...
So, what do you get when you see a compilation video of Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, and Chuck Grassley (in one of the clips) all listening to Mike Pence's voice on the phone? If you guessed "Conspiracy Theory" well bells...
We’ve all known for quite some time that Georgia Republican Congress creature Marjorie Taylor Greene is not exactly all there, whether fondling the cardboard genitals of a life sized Trump cutout, ruminating about “Jewish Space Lasers” or confusing Nazi...
Whelp, things get loonier and loonier within the strange and baffling world of Republican Congress critters. Yesterday a United States Senator from Oklahoma challenged a witness before his committee to a fistfight, while over in the House of Representatives Marjorie...
The U.S. House of Representatives sits on one side of the Capitol building, and the Senate on the other side. It's a long walk from one chamber to the other but in many respects they might as well be...
Whelp, it looks like Matt Gaetz’s decision to fire (to borrow a phrase) former Speaker Kevin McCarthy like a dog has put an end to the over the top farce that was the House Oversight Committee’s public hearings on...

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