Nov. 27 Open Thread: Tear Gas Si, Lettuce No
Welcome to Donald Trump's Festung Amerika, where a salad can make you sick but you can put tear gas on your nachos. There's no smoking gun linking the latest e.…
Nov. 26 Open Thread: Depends on Who’s Being Hanged, Doesn’t It?
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Mississippi Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith has lurched from one racism-tinted gaffe to the next in the run-up to her run-off election against Democrat Mike Espy. As Trump prepares to stage rallies…
Nov. 24 Open Thread: The Centrists Cannot Hold
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Surrender-happy centrist Democrats continue to believe the country can't run without their wisdom, so let's look at a prime example of how wrong they are: Georgia's 6th Congressional District, the…
Nov. 23 Open Thread: Judge Dread
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Now even SCOTUS Chief Justice John Roberts isn't Trumpy enough for Trump. Roberts rebuked Trump for trash-talking the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and Trump has lashed back ever since.…
Thanksgiving Open Thread: Happy Mac ‘n’ Cheese Day
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I'm a sucker for these U.S. maps that show the most popular insert-noun-here for each state. Today's shows the most Googled Thanksgiving recipe for each state, and Delaware's is --…
Belongs on Black Velvet
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That's some right leg. I'd like to meet his tailor. For this I left Paris? Picasso, Miro, Basquiat -- lately I've seen a lot of paintings that don't represent reality…
Nov. 2 Open Thread: Signs of the Blue Wave
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If you've read enough election stories over the years you know that the congressional district in Pennsylvania Dutch country around Lancaster has never elected a Democrat. Ever. Before Republicans existed…
And Now For a Little Comic Relief
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The conservative dirty tricksters who tried to frame Robert Mueller went ahead with their news conference at the ultra-swanky Roslyn, Va., Holiday Inn even though -- surprise! -- the woman…
Nov. 1 Open Thread: Donnie Two Scoops Melts Down
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The dishiest Beltway reporter these days is definitely Vanity Fair's Gabriel Sherman, who reports that Trump's mood is grim and has been ever since Cesar Sayoc's arrest. Sherman also hears…
Oct. 31 Open Thread: President Pariah
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Something unprecedented in American history happened yesterday -- a sitting president was universally shunned when he tried to stage a photo op pay his respects at the Pittsburgh synagogue where…
Oct. 30 Open Thread: Domestic Terrorists 13, Foreigners 0
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Trump is upset that some of his biggest fans are killing people -- not because he doesn't like them killing people, but he just doesn't like it happening when he's…
We Have Descended to a Lower Circle of Hell, Built by Trump
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I get the sense we have crossed another once-inviolable barrier in the Ballad of Donald Trump. Three horrifying hate crimes in five days, like four 500-year floods in a decade,…
Oct. 26 Open Thread: The GOP’s Tiny Violin Orchestra
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Blog patron saint Sir William of Ockham is best remembered for a simple rule to apply when choosing among possible solutions to an unknown -- the simplest explanation is most…