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Dec. 29 Open Thread: All’s Fair When All’s Foul

By Alby December 29, 20188 Comments

Lots of people don't get this, but all the lying and cheating Republicans do to gain office isn't unique to them, and many of the techniques the Russians used on…

Dec. 28 Open Thread: Revenge of the Moderate

By Alby December 28, 201824 Comments

Did you think the progressive takeover of the Democratic Party was going to be easy? No chance, pal. Just take a look at the vitriol being spread by defeated Missouri…

Song of the Day 12/25: John Gorka, “Christmas Bells”

By Alby December 25, 2018

As John Gorka explains, sort of, to this Dutch audience in 2013, the lyrics to "Christmas Bells" began as a Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poem written in 1863 -- on Christmas…

Dec. 24 Open Thread: NBC Promotes Bernie vs. Beto

By Alby December 24, 201812 Comments

If Beto O'Rourke were black, we could blame opposition to his popularity on racism. If he were female, we could blame it on misogyny. As it is, the mainstream Democrats…

Song of the Day 12/23: Alison Krauss and Robert Plant, “The Light of Christmas Day”

By Alby December 23, 2018

I thought I had heard every Christmas song worth hearing until yesterday, when a Spotify search for "Alison Krauss" and "Christmas" introduced me (eventually, well down the play list) to…

Dec. 22 Open Thread: The Building Beto-mentum

By Alby December 22, 201814 Comments

I'm sure this will upset a number of readers, but facts are facts: Beto-mentum continues to build. A straw poll from the progressive group MoveOn.org released last week revealed Beto…

Dec. 21 Open Thread: Trump Collapse Approaches Exit Velocity

By Alby December 21, 20182 Comments

Look, I didn't say Trump's collapse would be pleasant. I just said it was coming, and now it's here. Remember that story a year or two ago about the broken…

Why the Long Faces?

By Alby December 20, 20186 Comments

Sometimes I think progressivism and depression must be linked characteristics, carried on the same gene or something. How else to explain those poll results to your right, which show that…

Dec. 14 Open Thread: And the One-Man Band Plays On

By Alby December 14, 20183 Comments

Here's a hint that Trump's flailing mania is not an act: Even without an audience who believes a word of it, his tweets keep on rolling, asserting statements with no…

Dec. 13 Open Thread: James Bond, Meet Maria Butina

By Alby December 13, 20184 Comments

A team of Australian public health officials at what must be Sherlock Holmes University issued a report that sounds like parody: After studying the cinematic evidence, they concluded that James…

Dec. 12 Open Thread: Cohen Gets 3 Years, Pelosi Pwns Trump

By Alby December 12, 20187 Comments

Donald Trump's claim that Michael Cohen's payoff of two paramours was a "civil" rather than a criminal offense just clanged into the iron bars of reality, as Cohen was sentenced…

Whatever Happened to Murdertown?

By Alby December 11, 20182 Comments

I posed a question in the panhandling thread asking if anyone could figure out why Mike Purzycki gets virtually no positive press for the receding Wilmington murder rate. I flashed…

Dec. 11 Open Thread: Plenty of Coal This Christmas

By Alby December 11, 20184 Comments

In news that will seem much more important years down the line than it does now, a global climate confab is being held in Poland, the climate-denier capital of Europe,…