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May 31 2019
Threshold Values
Sing it, Gene. If Trump doesn’t warrant impeachment, who does? By Eugene Robinson, Washington Post May 30, 2019 What would a president have to do, hypothetically, to get this Congress to impeach him? Obstruct a Justice Department investigation, perhaps? No, apparently that’s not enough. What about playing footsie with a hostile foreign power? Abusing his …
May 31 2019
Good Question
Of course the Versailles Villager Narrative is that Impeaching Unindicted Co-Conspirator Bottomless Pinocchio is “unpopular” and “electoral doom” for Democrats. First of all, some stuff you do because it’s your damn job, not because it’s personally beneficial except in maintaining, improving, or establishing your reputation for DOING YOUR DAMN JOB! Dammit. Secondly it’s not as …
May 30 2019
Charlotte’s Web
The background is the Republican plan to insert a citizenship question into the 2020 Census so they can disenfranchise Hispanics and Gerrymander more effectively. The new news is that when Thomas Hofeller, Republican operative out of North Carolina, died in August all his computer stuff went to his “estranged” daughter who promptly turned to Common …
May 30 2019
Oh, That Slavery Thing? That Was A Bad Idea Too.
I just, no fooling, got off the phone with a solicitor (in the mendicant sense) who wished me to contribute to an advertising campaign proclaiming Unindicted Co-conspirator Bottomless Pinocchio “Exonerated!” Sometimes I think that whatever malware monitors me is sadly confused about my political leanings. I am an Anarcho-Syndicalist, not a Republican, and to the …
May 29 2019
Impeach Already
Mueller Speaks! He sounds different than I thought he would. Mueller just made it crystal clear: Only Congress can hold Trump accountable By Paul Waldman and Greg Sargent, Washington Post May 29, 2019 Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III just opened his mouth in public for the first time in years, and though what he …
May 29 2019
Amash Town Hall
Umm… I recognize the auditorium. No, seriously, I’ve been in that exact spot. Not where my people are from, Yooper meets Detroit (Richard and Emily have their moments, but don’t we all). I was born in one of those car name towns, I forget which actually, and by virtue of my ‘Ganderness can apply for …
May 28 2019
Steam Punk
Did you know you can make a phonograph (an analog sound recording and playback device for you millennials and beyond) with Dirt, Water, a Wheel, a Pointy Stick, and a Membrane to attach it to? In analog recording what you want to do is create an analogue (homophone meaning similar as opposed to continuously variable) …
May 28 2019
Mickey Mouse
Why Are We Not Worried By Disney? I mean really. A good version of the Fantasic Four? I’m not holding my breath.
May 28 2019
Cartnoon
Forking Philosophy! Get a job hippie! Immanuel Kant was a real pissant who was very rarely stable. Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar who could think you under the table. David Hume could out-consume Wilhelm Freidrich Hegel. And Wittgenstein was a beery swine who was just as schloshed as Schlegel. There’s nothing Nietzsche couldn’t teach …