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It’s coming up on Memorial Day weekend and I’m going to do what the rest of you liberal homos won’t do. I’m having a flag pole party. You didn’t even…

What to say about a TV show that promised more and delivered less?   Maybe it only felt like it promised a lot because of the sick and sad straights that the country finds itself in these days?  Maybe the promises were the only ones we invented in our minds as we jumped on the "willing suspension of disbelief" bus like a bunch of drunk and rowdy Spring Breakers on our way to the next wet-shirt contest?   Our lives are not perfect, so we crazily seek perfection in the arts when the next greatest thing appears, or sports when we find a team that we can knit our identity to, or in politics when we find a candidate that is THE one who gets it. But there is no perfect in Art, sports, or politics. There is only the thing that is good right now. There is only the thing that makes us think that things can better.  That is the flame we fly towards.     And so T.S. Elliot was wrong.  On Westeros as in America, the world doesn't end with a whimper, or with a bang.  It doesn't end.  It just keeps trudges forward.  At times violent and terrible and at times beautiful.   Always imperfect, but striving.

For years it was one of the most lighty-amusing running jokes in memedom: The Onion's ongoing series of stories about then-VP Joe Biden, portraying him as Diamond Joe, everyone's favorite…

Highlands native Sarah McBride joins RE Vanella in the bunker to talk about some of her experiences in progressive activism as well as the different strategies that are needed, or…

Seriously. Fuck that Trump/GOP propaganda bullshit factory. Go on it, don't go on it, but for the love of SkyDad, stop pretending that it is a legitimate media company. It…

Unlike Chris Coons and Lisa Blunt Rochester, at least de Blasio gets that the Republic is in the grip of a fucking existential crisis. I also love whoever the Democrats nominate provided the process is fair and transparent.

Horse-race pundits already have all but conceded the Democratic nomination to Joe Biden, which is easy to do now because people haven't yet had a chance to hear his sales…

In 2017, AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson campaigned for Trump's massive tax-cuts by promising that they would create 7,000 jobs with the $3,000,000,000 they stood to gain,

"every billion dollars AT&T invests is 7,000 hard-hat jobs. These are not entry-level jobs. These are 7,000 jobs of people putting fiber in ground, hard-hat jobs that make $70,000 to $80,000 per year."

Stephenson also said that AT&T would invest in new infrastructure. But something happened on the way to the trickledown boon for workers. Instead of creating new jobs or investing in infrastructure, AT&T reduced its headcount by 23,328 workers while reducing capital expenditures by $1.4B Don't worry though, AT&T substantially increased executive bonuses over the same period. Via Boing Boing

Trump has dispatched Giuliani to Ukraine to push the incoming government in Kiev to press ahead with investigations that he hopes will benefit Trump 2020 and hurt Joe Biden. We know this because Giuliani brazenly said that his trip to Ukraine intended to push the incoming government in Kiev to press ahead with investigations that he hopes will benefit Trump 2020 and hurt Joe Biden.

This says it all:

  Rebel John Kowalko joins RE Vanella in the bunker to talk about his experiences as a Delaware State Representative, and his personal experiences with the ins and outs of…