Just another normal day in America. Birds are chirping, the sun is shining, except where it's snowing, and in California an apparently repressed QAnon/MAGA teacher could stay silent no more. She went bonkers in the classroom and taught right-wing...
We live in a world of book banning, book burning and smut-hunting illiterati stalking the halls of libraries that they would never have entered for the purpose of reading or study, but will to harass and censor. Yes, the...
Talk about a breath of fresh air. Greg Sargent and Paul Waldman of the Washington Post have put together a terrific piece on the "backlash to the backlash," specifically the bat$hit anti-gay, book banning nonsense in the State of Florida....
Ted Cruz envies Donald Trump. That's not new information. He envies the fact that Trump can be a complete jackass and he's loved by the MAGAs, whereas Cruz is naturally a jackass and he's loathed for it. Poor Teddums.
Cruz...
I'm sorry, this isn't going to be gentle, but I've had it. On Tonight with Alex Wagner, she just went through the genesis of a very famous event of the civil rights era, Rosa Parks heroic refusal to give up...
A Dark and Cold Sunshiny Day
He picked out his own clothes that morning
wore his favorite yellow shirt with the red stripes
his little-boy jeans
and
despite his protests
the red jacket
He looked up briefly
from his morning cereal
and grinned
as his dad
leaving to go to...
This is not surprising coming from a sitting congressman, not when you know that it's a Republican we're talking about and a hard core Trumpite. This is the face of the rank and file GOP in 2021, bone ignorant...
We get the government we deserve
In this country electing a government, whether state or local, is a crapshoot. Mainly because, for a democracy of the people, by the people, and for the people, we are some amazing lazy mofo's. Rather than...
Every now and then a story surfaces that gives you hope that no matter how desperately the RWNJs try to pull our country into an abyss of hatred and ignorance, good people can emerge to pull us back from...
The warring tribes mentality which Fox News brings to politics escalated up another notch this morning with a depiction of Merrick Garland juxtaposed with images of parents at school board meeting covered in crosshairs. A voiceover intoned, "You have...
