Open Thread

Rethugs Will Pay The Price When Roe v Wade Is Overturned.  Here's why the Democratic 'gloom-'n-doom' narrative perpetuated by Politico and (oxymoron alert) centrist think-tanks can be obsolete almost overnight:…

BREAKING: Auditor's Office Has Spent $262,000 On Attorney's Fees Since 2019: Nobody's Talking.  Articles like this are why I subscribe.  From Xerxes Wilson's piece: In the same time period during…

Federal COVID Relief Has Been Unfairly Maligned.  It's doing a lot of good: To date, the federal government has allocated $4.52 trillion in response to Covid-19 — a staggering figure,…

Lin-Manuel Miranda's Interview With Sondheim.  Sondheim was a sounding-board for Miranda during the creation of Hamilton: Sondheim was one of the first people I told about my idea for a…

In case you were wondering: The first recorded use of the term “Black Friday” was applied not to post-Thanksgiving holiday shopping but to financial crisis: specifically, the crash of the…

Happy Thanksgiving!  Best holiday of the year by far, at least for us. Let me just emphasize how disgraceful giving the Kathleen McGuiness the Pharmacist Of The Year Award is. …

Could Traffic Circles Actually Be Good?  I grant you, they confuse me, especially when you're supposed to 'take the third right' at the roundabout. However: Carmel, a city of 102,000…

'Kyle Rittenhouse And The New Era Of Political Violence'.  Might as well go back and place the burgeoning movement featuring Rittenhouse and like-minded individuals in context.  Add to that blatantly-biased…

Biden To Reverse Disastrous Trump Policy Aimed At Despoiling Alaska: Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack will propose reinstating a Bill Clinton-era rule to ban logging and road building in more than…

Darius Brown Blowed Himself Up Real Good.  Maybe his latest sham employer will reconsider the job they handed to him--especially since they're probably not getting any Grant-In-Aid $$'s as long…

My Kind Of Anti-Vax Story.  Washington State Senator, who doubles as a registered foreign agent, stranded in El Salvador, begs for Regeneron: “Do any of you have any ideas on…

The Real Supply Chain Issue:  Long-Haul Truck Drivers Don't Get Paid Shit: The industry has also long relied on "low wages and bare-minimum staffing" to boost their profits, Johnson told…

Who said it?:  "...“the Black wogs and coons and Arabs and f---ing Jamaicans don’t belong here.”   Answer at bottom of column. Manchin Is A Republican. Period. Sabotaging The Democratic Senate…