Of all of the people in public life nowadays the person most deserving of our sympathy is surely Anthony Fauci. The good man has been a doctor and public servant for over 50 years. He never sought the spotlight....
I've asked this before, is The Onion still in business? Because this is a news and opinion site and in any given week I write at least three or four headlines that I'm betting their best satirists can't top...
This is interesting coming from a member of Donald Trump's administration, since other members, Kayleigh McEnany leaps to mind, went out of their way to push the fantasy land, "trust your instincts" "it's your prerogative to wear a mask...
Do you recall back in April an Alaska state senator who argued with employees at Juneau International Airport got put on the no-fly list by Alaska Airlines until January, 2022, the length of time that the national mask mandate...
One small step for sanity, one giant leap for the GOP. New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu, a Republican, has requested that state Representative Ken Weyler be removed      from his position because the man thinks the 5G towers...
Ron DeSantis faces some stiff opposition. The group Remove Ron has cobbled together this terrific parody of the Forever Purge movie. https://youtu.be/OhqPrEO9xFU Another instance where the truth is stranger than fiction and a whole lot scarier.  
This is from a fellow, Charlie Warzel, who writes a newsletter Galaxy Brain. It's only a snapshot of a Montana ICU. You can multiply these two anecdotes by many thousands. How did we get here? How many more of these...
Interesting how today's GOP prioritizes public office. Public office is 1. Not about serving; 2. Not about keeping the constituents happy; 3. It's not even about keeping the constituents ALIVE. 4. It's about being a talking head on Fox News, while people keel...
If you are looking for the lowest common denominator in our country, the place to go is Fox News, nowhere else. I honestly think that the time has come to take "news" out of the title and put Fox...
What's old is new and what's new is old. And nothing is older than religion and grifting. That was a match made in Hell long ago, although Jesus himself preached simplicity and sharing amongst a faith-based community above a...

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