President Donald Trump stepped up, put his big-boy pants on, and took the mantle of leadership. “I’ll take responsibility for shutting it down, I won’t blame you for it,” he famously told Chuck Schumer in the Oval Office. “I’ll...
I fought the law, and the law won   The Clash As a serious comedian (a true oxymoron if I’ve ever heard one), I’ve always had a favorite pet phrase. If I heard somebody say it, I knew where my next...
Most people work just hard enough to not get fired, and get paid just enough not to quit   George Carlin You know, there are times when the arrogance of Republicans with power is terrifying, and then there are times when...
If my uterus fired bullets, the GOP would never regulate it!   Austin TX pro abortion protester on Saturday The more I see this ridiculous and pathetic "Debt Ceiling Showdown" farce play out, the more apparent Senate Minority Mitch McConnell's strategy...
You know, history isn't written the day after an event. News reports are. History is written 10 or 20 or 30 years later, when there is a wider pool of dispassionate information, and when enough time has passed for...
In this country, only, does this not register as "shocking breaking news." More than two dozen people were injured in Texas on Saturday afternoon when police say two gunmen opened fire in multiple public locations. The suspects are “currently driving around...
I swear to God, the GOP is about to abortion themselves right out of gaining a majority in either chamber of congress in November. Not only that, but they may just cost themselves some state legislatures as well. Chris Hayes on All In on...
I'm now officially on "Resignation Alert" for Alex Acosta. As I type this, Acosta hasn't even started answering questions about his craven fold-spindle-mutilate on the Jeffrey Acosta case, and I've already heard enough. Acosta has to go, and I...
I have been chewing on this for a week now. Like most people, I  was stunned to see large numbers of the Cuban people rising up in the streets of Havana, and throughout the country as well. Watching the...
I fought the law, and the law won   The Bobby Fuller Four   I fought the law I wrote at length yesterday about how happy I was about Biden's aggressive six step plan to aggressively stomp out the Covid virus. But...

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