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,...
The whole world, especially the punditry world is aflutter with Vlad the Imp's pronouncement that he was placing his nuclear forces on high alert. Following the credo of my patron saint, Jon of Stewart, If you smell bullshit, call bullshit, I'm...
Consider this your official warning, You're ALL under the microscope!  And it's going to get a helluva lot worse before it gets better, so the sooner you get the memo, and at least appear to get with the program, the easier...
Here is yet another exhibit to my ongoing contention that conspiracy theory leading to two concurrent narratives of reality is the toxin that is going to destroy this country. Right now, the GOP seems to be hell bent on...
Yesterday's performance by El Pendejo Presidente was without doubt one of the most brilliant exhibitions of self obsessed narcissism I've ever seen. Like a kid playing Dungeons and Dragons, Trump envisions himself in his head as a steely eyed...
My daddy changed the world  George Floyd's daughter to President Joe Biden
Even a year ago, you were able to see, both in person as well on television, the way that your father's death shocked and changed the world. People,...
This will be brief, I promise you. Lawrence O'Donnell just had a magnificent segment on The Last Word, in which he interviewed Jerry Blackwell and Steve Swisher, the two lead attorneys for the prosecution in the George Floyd murder...
It's a given that Donald Trump is one sorry and sad excuse for a human being, but today's attempt at relevance on Twitter was so far out there, even by his lack of standards, as to be truly pathetic.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1270333484528214018
Actually,...
The Sturmabteilung, or "brownshirts," were formed as the Nazi Party's first paramilitary group. They protected Nazi officials, including Adolf Hitler and Erich Rohm, fought with the paramilitary groups that opposed them, and intimidated Romani, trade unionists, and especially Jews.
Donald Trump,...
The conviction of Derek Chauvin did not set well with one and all. Particularly offended were people who think that it's part of a cop's job to kill Black men in the streets.
https://twitter.com/vanick_jake/status/1384619008436043783
https://twitter.com/LibertyHangout/status/1384615238255906822
Not a happy camper. And of course...
