America’s greatest aphorist, Mark Twain, said, “If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.” It also holds for artificial men, that is, corporations. As payback for rescuing them from bankruptcy with public funds, American automakers lobbied long and hard to roll back fuel efficiency standards.
The long-term lease of the Port of Wilmington cleared its first (and lowest) hurdle when the board that runs the port approved the deal.
Conservatives might get further with normal people if they didn’t have the sensitivity of tree stumps. A U.S. Representative from South Carolina whipped out his loaded gun at a town hall meeting to prove guns are safe. His point, he said, was that he wasn’t going to “be a Gabby Giffords.”
The Booman Tribune makes the case that Trump is looking to hand Syria over to the Russians because Putin is getting tired of the low return on his investment in Trump’s election.
The war on drugs, or somebody’s tax money at work: New York cops are boosting their narco-arrest stats by having undercover officersgive money to junkies to buy drugs for them, then busting them as “dealers.” I feel so much safer now.
At long last, science has an explanation for why most people take an instant dislike to Sen. Ted Cruz — and no, it’s not just to save time. It’s something about his unnatural smile, according to this neurologist, in an article that introduced me to the German word Backpfeifengesicht, which means “face in need of a good punch.”
Not as punchable, but even more ridiculous Texas politician Blake Farenthold resigned abruptly, apparently because he didn’t want anyone running that photo of him in ducky pajamas anymore.