June 14 Open Thread: Lawful But Awful
The headline comes from this story about the ways gun manufacturers already are working on products designed to circumvent bans on bump stocks and other after-market products that turn legal…
June 13 Open Thread: What’s Fat, Saggy and Nearly Bald?
Republican primaries around the country demonstrated that the GOP is now a fully-owned subsidiary of TrumpCo, as pro-Trump troglodytes swept aside old-school Republicans across the nation. Maybe the party should…
Conclusive Proof: Rand Paul Is a Dick
Rand Paul is a dick. If there was ever any doubt, it was dispelled by sentencing documents stemming from his neighbor's rib-breaking attack on the ideological little weenie, which leave…
“This Is Not Capitalism”
I linked yesterday to a column by Yanis Varoufakis, the leftist organizer who briefly served as finance minister in Greece before resigning in protest. Here's a longer interview that spells…
June 12 Open Thread: “Historic” Meeting Shows Why People Think History Is Dull
The mainstream media, just as Trump foresaw, is making a fuss over his "historic" meeting with Kim Jong Un without pointing out that Neville Chamberlain's meeting with Hitler in Munich…
June 11 Open Thread: How Much More of This Will the World Take?
Trump is in Singapore now after laying a turd in the punch bowl at the G7 meeting in Quebec, a performance that has the chattering classes hoping that this, surely,…
Not The Onion: Document Expert’s Job Is Scotch-Taping Papers Trump Rips Apart
More evidence that Trump is a giant toddler: For years, his habit after "reading" documents is to tear them up and throw them away (yeah, that's not an incriminating habit…
June 10 Open Thread: Toddler Trump Tries to Wreck G7
I'll cut to the chase: Anything Trump says about why he sabotaged the G7 meeting is bullshit meant to cover up the real reason: He wouldn't cross Putin with the…
June 9 Open Thread: What’s Wrong With White People?
Quinnipiac ran a poll asking people if NFL players have the right to protest on the playing field. The top-line story is that 58% of Americans say they do. But…
It’s the Treason, Stupid
David Corn of Mother Jones makes an important point: The media is missing the story in how it reports the Trump-Russia scandal. Much of the media framing of the Russia…
June 8 Open Thread: Suicide Is Painless*
It's been a bad week for suicides. First fashion designer Kate Spade, now celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain -- why is it that people with a lot to contribute check out,…
June 6 Open Thread: Democrats Manage Not to Screw Up Primaries
Except for the action-hungry sports bettors who flocked to Delaware, yesterday's big stories came from the flurry of primaries in eight states. The generally good news for Democrats wasn't all…
Football Becomes a Political Football
It's no secret that blustery, overcompensating macho types like Donald Trump love football. Trump himself, you'll recall, tried to buy an NFL team in the 1980s and failed. He then…