Hope there’s no Boeing stock in your portfolio; President Crazypants the Inscrutable has weighed in on the recent airline disaster(s) via Twitter. Nope, no “thoughts and prayers” for the victims since the recent crash occurred in a country populated mostly by non-white people — what we have here is freelance pontificating from a puffy bag …
Pelosi: Trump’s not worth impeaching
WaPo Mag just published an interview with Speaker Pelosi. Here’s one snippet that is sure to get a lot of attention: There have been increasing calls, including from some of your members, for impeachment of the president. I’m not for impeachment. This is news. I’m going to give you some news right now because I …
Bucket o’ Wings (Open Thread)
Perry Bacon over at FiveThirtyEight identified the “six wings of the Democratic Party” — here’s an excerpt of each category with examples; more commentary about the categories at the link: The Super Progressives Very liberal on economic and identity/cultural issues, anti-establishment. (Anti-establishment is a very fuzzy term, but in this piece, what I’m referring to …
Medium Large (Open Thread)
This is a fairly large gator upriver from me: Probably eight or nine feet, I’m guessing. Wouldn’t want to swim past it! And here’s a swallow-tailed kite: Enjoying your evening so far? Open thread!
Gripped by the same madness
Saw this clip on Twitter of former Labour/Respect Party MP George Galloway talking about his vision of Brexit: George Galloway: "I want Britain post-Brexit to be what it was in the Swinging 60s, when we were the cultural capital of the world. When we had a steel industry, when we had a coal industry – …
Roadside Attraction: Tales of Terror
Fellow jackal lamh36, aka @psddluva4evah on Twitter, highlighted a thread on a little-discussed childhood trauma — being terrorized by monkeys at Florida tourist traps: OMG! This was fascinating! @Johngcole @DougJBalloon @bettycrackerfl @CherylRofer @TomLevenson @soonergrunt https://t.co/Kza1VBZqBo — #ListenToBlackWomenKamalaHarris2020 (@psddluva4evah) March 10, 2019 I should say up front (as the author of the tweet thread acknowledges) that …
“What in tarnation?”
Badger always looks super alarmed when I’m dusting in his location: I mean, I know dusting is rare around here, but really? We’re having a chill day. The mister took the kids fishing upriver, and what do I do when I finally have a moment to myself? Dust and make fun of my dog on …