President Obama for several years has been trying to spend a good bit of money in West Virginia to help out all the people whose lives have been impacted by the decline in coal jobs. Things like this: The plan, called POWER Plus and is part of the President’s proposed Fiscal Year 2016 Budget, provides …
Excellent Links
Late Night Hate-Fic Open Thread: Entertaining But *Very* NSFW
RYAN: Quite a day.TRUMP: My little white frogs are so sad!RYAN: YepTRUMP: If I lose them, I lose them. I only go to Reddit for the nudes — Owen Ellickson (@onlxn) August 25, 2016 Owen Ellickson is an evil genius, and if you have a taste for nasty political humor you should most definitely be …
Late Night Hate-Fic Open Thread: Entertaining But *Very* NSFWPost + Comments (38)
Long Read: “Soul of A New (Political) Machine”
I am personally pro-machine, both out of filial piety (my Irish grandparents owed their livelihoods to Tammany Hall) and because the known alternatives are so much worse. Perhaps the concept is due for revival, as the retro vintage artisanal alternative to the kleptocrats of our Second Gilded Age? Are we sophisticated enough, technologically or socially, …
Long Read: “Soul of A New (Political) Machine”Post + Comments (127)
Long Read: “Massive new Gallop study debunks a widespread theory for Donald Trump’s success”
Trump supporters skew financially comfortable whites whose successful kids left town & other kids are stuck there.https://t.co/OVsHovhJRV — Al Giordano (@AlGiordano) August 12, 2016 I’m reading Richard Russo’s Everybody’s Fool — sequel to Nobody’s Fool — and the Trump voters in this Gallup survey are reminding me of Russo characters. (Certainly shifty, worthless developer Carl …
Long (Encouraging) Read: “A Hillary confidante’s letters reveal a window into her friend’s life”
Isaac Stanley-Becker, in the Washington Post: Hillary Clinton was first lady when an influential legal journal featured her in its spring volume, drawing tributes from such luminaries as Elie Wiesel, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy and the Queen of Jordan. But the most intimate portrait came from Diane Blair, a woman Clinton befriended in Arkansas who …
Open Thread: Ever Green (Party)
Jill Stein & Roger Stone both cheering on Julian Assange. Perfect. — Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) August 6, 2016 The NYTimes: HOUSTON — Minutes before she addressed a boisterous crowd at the Green Party convention here on Saturday, Jill Stein sat in a mirror-walled room backstage, gazing at her reflection with a look of dumbstruck bliss. …
Long Read: “‘Clock Boy’… can’t escape that moment”
Poor kid. I tell myself that many of us spent our adolescence waiting to escape the grip of our family’s dysfunctions, and mostly succeeded, or at least survived. From Jessica Contrera, in the Washington Post: The news crew is here, but the famous boy is still asleep. He had just flown 22 hours, back to …
Long Read: “‘Clock Boy’… can’t escape that moment”Post + Comments (23)