Americans High On Optimism
July 12, 2021A couple of whimsical, near-nonsensical items this afternoon which in the face of our current reality, should make one feel better, if just for a moment or two. Hope in the time of the virus:…
Tag Archives: assholes
Cheers For Death From CPAC: ‘Horrifying’ Says Fauci
July 11, 2021In the long-short run, conservatives/Republicans are destroying America on many levels, from the ballot box to the classroom, but maybe the worse strike is death — fighting the fighting of a deadly virus that’s already…
GQP The Party Of Bullshit Out In The Open
July 8, 2021Nice and still somewhat-cool this mid-morning Thursday here in California’s Central Valley, though, enjoyable right now, we’re in for some hot-spanking weather later today, and for days into the climate-changing future. Beyond weather and our…
GETTR Hacked Holiday Style
July 4, 2021Calamitous karma this morning for the T-Rump’s former right-hand idiot, Jason Miller, as his new start-up, GETTR, a supposedly social media platform, was hacked for a little while, taking emphasis away from the porn images…
History On Holiday
July 4, 2021A laugh-at horror for the times, dark humor biting in the dark (h/t tweet the great Miss Cellania this morning): Here we are, a celebration Sunday — the fourth of July, Independence Day, the federal…
Poll: Majority Of Americans Believe Democracy Under Threat
July 2, 2021In a sense of relief, I’m not the only one scared shitless and paranoid about America’s democratic future: Details via PBS this morning: Two-thirds of Americans (67-percent) believe democracy in the United States is under…
Heat And Fire, And Idiots
July 1, 2021Hardcore story ending badly today pumped by climate change: The town noted above, Lytton, was the centerpiece news-spot this past week after breaking the record for highest temperature ever recorded in Canada three days in…
News To Make You Scream!
July 1, 2021A shitload of news already this Thursday, and we’re just at mid-morning right now. Most of the shit is depressing and there’s some weird mixed-in, though, as a country based on the optics we’ve in…
US House Okays Select Committee On Capitol-Building Attack (Update) — NYT Publishes ‘Visual’ Horror Video Of Assualt
June 30, 2021Update: A new, unvarnished video view of the Capitol-building attack from The New Times this afternoon — main written detail: The work of understanding Jan. 6 has been hard enough without this barrage of disinformation…
Pelosi Launches Select Committee To Investigate Capitol Insurrection/Riot
June 28, 2021The nasty, dangerous and anti-American scene at the US Capitol earlier this year will always be most-likely one odd bit of national history — the off-tune is reality. Live TV and video later showed a…