As you all know, ABC was down for the weekend so I didn’t spend too much time paying attention to the news, but I tried to blog about something this afternoon, and saw Trump’s comments about Kim Jong Un after his comments about that lunatic Duterte and then ran into the Civil War shit and …
Monday Evening Open Thread: Thrashing
.@NewYorker's cartoon of the day. pic.twitter.com/yckIdMl71c — Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) April 29, 2017 Promise him a spot on Mount Rushmore, doctor up some historically high approval ratings, and I bet you could convince Trump to retire now. — McKay Coppins (@mckaycoppins) April 28, 2017 Happy May Day, everybody. I marked the occasion by starting this …
How I Learned To Love Climate Modeling
I’m annoyed by the New York Times hire of Bret Stephens, more annoyed by the defense that Times editors are mounting on Twitter. I’m annoyed that this has to be said again, but here we are, as Times editors tell us that any criticism is merely trying to silence a conservative voice. My objections have …
The voice of experience versus buzzwords
There is always an XKCD for everything: Here to Help https://t.co/Zk5zGAZdmd https://t.co/zWFbcThhdz pic.twitter.com/2O5oe5T0oG — XKCD Comic (@xkcdComic) May 1, 2017 If there was an easy solution it would have been implemented a long time ago in most circumstances. Now get off my lawn and enjoy your open thread.
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Open Thread: LAW ‘NORDAH!!!!
BREAKING: White guys w no education, infantile view of the world, & serial failed get-rich-quick schemes, like Trump https://t.co/FujI9nthSR — Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) April 30, 2017 …not the case w these two guys. But I grew up around guys like them in white working class suburbs of Detroit (and it’s probably the same… — Dana …
WaPo forgets to follow the money…
There’s an excellent case to be made for bestowing the “paper of record” title on The Washington Post. The New York Times essentially resigned from that position with its godawful election coverage (failure to vet homeboy Trump in favor of hysterical focus on Clinton’s emails), its subsequent refusal to engage in post-election introspection and its …
Once more dear friends….
Call Congress — ? This is a red alert: PENCE is calling moderates and telling them they have the votes. Only a TIDAL WAVE of calls tomorrow can stop them. ? — Topher Spiro (@TopherSpiro) April 30, 2017 The House GOP thinks that it might have either the votes or is close enough to having …