OK, this is completely out of control. If you're a liberal, or anybody else with 12 functioning brain cells, you have spent decades snickering at the insane paranoid of the far right, who believe every word of it when their GOP...
Thomas Lane, one of the officers involved in the arrest of George Floyd the night he was killed, is trying to play good cop to Derek Chauvin's bad cop. Lane is seeking to get charges against himself dismissed because...
Racists sense the sea change working its way through American society, and they are striking back in their usual stupid, brutish, half-sensate way. We could write stories two or three times daily of some white guy screaming about wearing...
I live in Wilmington, NC. Nice beaches just a few minutes' drive away, warm weather, college town ambience in some areas. And lots and lots of racism, both overt and (barely) under the surface. And, like so many other cities,...
My newest hero is Rep. Cedric Richmond (D-LA.) He graciously yielded the floor to Matt Gaetz, when discussing the topic of police reform. Gaetz then proceeded to pick a fight and then Richmond took back the floor and let...
If Donald Trump didn't have a stroke in November, he'll have one now, when he finds out his BFF Vladimir Putin has dissed him. Holey moley. Here's what Putin said on Russian state TV. Daily Mail: “We are exiting the...
I have always been fascinated with the prehistoric world. And one of my greatest fascinations has been with the way that some of the dinosaurs died. I imagine these incredible behemoths, weighing tons each, with armor plating and bone...
If you didn't catch Donald Trump's latest batshit presser Thursday, it was a classic in delusion and gaslighting, where he predicted that 400 years of systemic racism was going to be solved "quickly and easily." He actually said that....
Everything I know about police, criminals, etc does not come from Law and Order -- which is actually a good thing, as it turns out. One thing I know from experience: most murders have a personal component. And it seems...
Life isn't measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the number of moments that take our breath away   George Carlin? Vicki Corona? Maya Angelou? Lately I've been a busy little camper talking about my amazement with the...

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