Not all wars start with some single, cataclysmic event, like Germany pouring over the borders of the European Low Countries on the morning of May 10, 1940, and officially kicked off World War II. Sometimes it's a fuck up. As...
Trump has been a most busy little mammal in the last 72 hours, and the mammal I'm most reminded of is a hamster. He's been busy running around on wheels. But in watching, forcibly, clips from Trump's rally in...
I'm sorry, but I'm totally fed up. My Bullshit-O-Meter is at max factor, and yet there is no relief in sight! For every Trombie acolyte who succumbs to Covid and from his hospital bed begs his podcast listeners to repent, two...
Reminder. The Big Lie is an easily disproven falsehood, repeated constantly in an informational vacuum, until it is finally widely believed and accepted. I have previously written that His Lowness was in a truly unique position to promulgate The Big Lie. By the time...
Futility is doing the same thing over and over, and still expecting a different result Traitor Tot is licking his nuts again. He is running around all day, every day, waving that cheap plastic Scepter that he got in a...
No, I'm sorry, as far as I know, Judas Joe and Cactus Barbie were whacked over the heads with a common sense stick. That's still up in the air. But I heard something else today that lifted my spirits,...
Don't play that song, that achy-breaky song, I think it's driving me insane!   Weird Al Yankovic   Achy-breaky song Public Service Alert. Snark Level 10! As I wrote recently, after the events of the 1/6 commemoration, the broadest, easiest way to explain...
You know, Will Rodgers really nailed it to the barn wall when he lamented, I don't belong to an organized political party. I'm a Democrat. As a lifelong bleeding heart, I will be the first to admit, most of the...
You know, presidential historian and House Librarian Doris Kerns Goodwin is a real Babe Ruth today, she just keeps knocking it out of the park. And on Rachel Maddow tonight, she may have just provided a clue as to...
There's a lake made of whiskey, and one made of stew. You can paddle all around them in a big canoe. On the Big Rock Candy Mountain   The Big Rock Candy Mountain Just a quick recap for clarity. What is The...

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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. In fact, it's the only thing that ever has.

— Margaret Mead