Open Thread

Yes, Virginia, There Really Was a Festivus.  Even A 'Festivus For The Rest Of Us': (Seinfeld writer) O’Keefe said years later, “I mean this in the nicest way possible: My…

I know it's the day before Christmas.  I know that many of our daily readers will be away and will not be reading this. But you never know.  This could…

Jan. 6 Panel To Congress: Bar Trump From Running Again: The committee’s recommendations largely deal with how best to hold Trump and his allies accountable for the Jan. 6 attack,…

Good news!:  The days will start getting a little longer from now on.  Just thought you'd like to know...hang in there. Who Created  'Libs Of TikTok'?  Confession: I'd never heard…

Most Fired Workers Lost Their Jobs For No Good Reason Last Year: These conditions are perhaps why 2022 was a big year for unionization. Unions won more elections than they…

How A Walk In The Park Became Putin's War.  Talk about mis-overestimating (H/T to Dubya) your capabilities...: They never had a chance. Fumbling blindly through cratered farms, the troops from…

Latest Muskmare:  Investigative Reporters Tossed Off Twitter.  For allegedly telling people where the 'Free Speech Absolutist' was.  Which wasn't true: Twitter suspended the accounts of more than half a dozen…

AG's Office Concludes That Fort DuPont Redevelopment Corporation Broke Law.  Tip of the sombrero to one of our fave tipsters: "The petitions allege that the Fort DuPont Redevelopment and Preservation…

We're back.  Didn't know what happened to Jason--until I got that 'Wish You Were Here' postcard from Hawaii.  Did he win the lottery, or did he merely abscond with the…

Pa. Rethugs Lose Election--Try To Steal It In Court.  By, you know, opposing special elections for vacant seats: The top-ranking Republican in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives asked a court…

For All You Science Nerds, (Let's see, there's Unstable Isotope, and that's about it), Is This How To Beat Covid?: As severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) evolves to escape…

The Sinema Enema.  Flushed herself out of the bowels of the Democratic Party.  Here's my quick early take: Well, we know she can't run as a D in Arizona again. …

Brittany Griner Released!  In exchange for an arms dealer: The deal, the second such exchange in eight months with Russia, procured the release of the most prominent American detained abroad.…