Open Thread

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…

How Cops Justify Killing Those Stopped For Traffic Offenses:  'The Car Was The Weapon': In a New York Times investigation of car stops that left more than 400 similarly unarmed…

Big Pharma Breaks Lobbying Spending Records To Fight Drug Pricing Initiatives.  They've already got Carper and Coons in their pockets--although maybe they can rustle up some spare change to further…

Opinion: D's Have To Confront Rethugs' Relentlessly Racist Dog-Whistles.  It's been the R strategy since Nixon, and it works when D's ignore it: Crucially, the Republican nominee, Glenn Youngkin, was…

How/Why Cops Turn Traffic Stops Into Deadly Confrontations.  Short take--Because they're trained that way. And because they can get away with it: The deaths are among a series of seemingly…