Open Thread

Coco Gauff--A Star Is Born.  So easy to root for: Gauff was identified as a potential future champion at the age of 15, and she hauled expectations around like a…

Earthquake In Morocco.  A bad one: A rare, powerful earthquake struck Morocco late Friday night, killing more than 800 people and damaging buildings from villages in the Atlas Mountains to…

700 Years And Counting.  The amount of prison time that has been meted out to all those convicted of Jan. 6 crimes: The sentences over the past week — including…

Wisconsin Rethugs Seek To Destroy Democracy To Save Their Legislative Super-Majorities.  Here's the even sneakier part:  The idea is for the House to impeach her, which would immediately place her…

RIP: Bill Richardson.  He Made A Real Difference: “There was no person that Governor Richardson would not speak with if it held the promise of returning a person to freedom,”…

Jimmy Buffett Dies--Price Of Cheeseburgers To Plummet?  The Poet Laureate of lassitude who turned branding into an art form.  The linked profile from 2018 captures the conundrum/contradictions therein: Because that,…

Biden Administration Moves To Reclassify/Declassify Pot: If a recommendation by the nation’s top health agency to reclassify marijuana is adopted, the drug could gain wider acceptance as a medical treatment,…

Submitted Without Comment... ...From Mitch. Lest we feel smug, Biden's the same age as Mitch. Home-Schooling And Christian Millionaires: A perfect match for siphoning off billions in Federal education dollars:…

Don't Read This At The Airport:  5000 Pilots Hiding Major Medical Issues?: Federal authorities have been investigating nearly 5,000 pilots suspected of falsifying their medical records to conceal that they…

Republican Moms, Black Legislators, Join Forces In Tennessee.  Against gun violence: A group of mothers from The Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee, reached across the aisle to show their support…

That. Mug. Shot. (Fulton County Sheriff's Office) At first, I was fixated by the Death Stare, figuring that Trump had rehearsed this ad nauseum in order to look as resolute…

Didn't watch the debate.  Didn't watch the commentary after the debate.  That 'climate change is a hoax' would seem to be disqualifying, though.  Even to Rethugs.  Pretty sure that farmers…