Open Thread

Final Call For The Claudettes.  Tonight.  Prices are incredibly affordable: $20 for the general public. Tickets available at the box office.  Here's how Downbeat  described them: “The Claudettes hit listeners…

Biden's Agenda: How Not To Negotiate.  Cut it in half, then beg: “The House and Senate majorities and my presidency will be determined by what happens in the next week,”…

Silly Russians, Don't You Know The NRA Is Bankrupt?  Russian hackers allegedly post NRA stuff on dark web: The gang behind the attack—which calls itself “Grief”—recently began sharing images of…

“Their (Black Christians) voices contradicted the proposition that America is the story of the gradual expansion of freedom and opportunity to a wider and wider group of people,. The moral…

Kathy McGuiness Has No Shame.  Of course, that's a 'dog bites man' headline.  But this isn't: Delaware Auditor Kathy McGuiness has asked a local judge to make taxpayers foot the bill…

BREAKING: Rep. Paul Baumbach Running For Reelection.  I wrote a speculative piece, turns out it was fiction. At least in part: I am running for re-election, to continue to serve…

Rabbi Joins Proud Boys, Hands Out 'Religious Exemptions' From Covid Vaccinations.  'Backwards reeled the mind'.  Who can quote the original sentence, and who wrote it?  No, it wasn't Sondheim. WH:…

Two From The Times:  Optimist.  Pessimist.  Would it surprise you to learn that Krugman is (sorta) the optimist?  Yeah, me too.  The Ezra Klein piece is must-reading, and it's not…

Can't We Just Trade Manchin For Murkowski?  Not saying she'd be a 'better' D, but I doubt she'd revel in the role of gumming up the works like that fucking…

Killings By Police In America Undercounted By More Than Half.  According to the British medical journal Lancet: Researchers compared information from a federal database known as the National Vital Statistics…