Open Thread

Long read for a long weekend: Bill Moyers and retired lawyer Steven Harper put together a timeline of known Trump campaign contacts with Russians, resulting in a (relatively) easy-to-follow version…

Black Friday isn't called that because stores get "into the black" from all the retail shopping -- it was coined by Philly cops in the 1960s to describe their day-after-Thanksgiving,…

With liberals arguing over Al Franken, Bill Clinton and the political power of opposing sexual harassment, here's a reminder that Republicans' Roy Moore problem, which is only partly about sexual…

There is literally NO NEWS today worth talking about, unless you consider the death of an 83-year-old boogieman notable. Yes, Charles Mason, the nutcase "hippie" whose murderous mutterings caused the…

Question of the day comes from Lucian Truscott, who asks "WTF is wrong with rich people?" I have to say, I don’t have a clue what’s up with rich people.…

When it comes to judges, I like 'em well-seasoned. Republicans like 'em raw. Yesterday every Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee voted for a 36-year-old twerp who has only practiced…

Stories searching for lessons in Tuesday's election litter the ground like autumn leaves, and I'll be damned if I rake them all up. A couple of them are worth your time,…

Football took another blow to the head at a University of Maryland symposium, with several sportswriters acknowledging that it's going to be hard to make a collision sport brain-safe. Bob…

Defeat is an orphan, all right, and Trump left Ed Gillespie's losing race in the convent doorway with a note saying, "He wouldn't embrace me." The Daily Beast has the…

Alt-right darling Taylor Swift is already widely despised, but for some reason she doesn't want to be associated with white supremacists -- so much so that she has threatened to…

People who want marijuana legalized for recreational use often talk up its tax advantages, but they're seldom realistic about it. Consider this Los Angeles Times article about the coming tax…

The civil war in the Democratic Party should be slouching toward Appomattox Courthouse, but the belligerents just won't let it go. Shots are still being fired over Donna Brazile's book…