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Jan 01 2020
Sam Bee’s Stocking Stuffers
Can you light a candle? Day Drinking! It’s a Tradition! Mommy. Dearest. Shrill It’s the Eternal Punishment for our Sins! Jeff Goldblum (isn’t he in everything and didn’t we do this last year?) You’re a mean one, Ms. Binch I don’t expect new material tonight.
Jan 01 2020
Blasts from the Past
My YouTube turns up odd things and I’m trying to drive the Klansmen and Neo Nazis who’ve infected it off my History feed. I try and vet for the most part, but I can’t be expected to examine the whole ouvre and what can I say? I find the Battle of Five Forks fascinating. If …
Dec 31 2019
New Year’s Rockin’ Eve 2019
Without Dick Clark who is dead Jim, dead. Now you might ask why this hoary old chestnut? Well, two reasons. First, I’m a huge fan of Alanis. Second I’m on strike with CNN and Anderson over Kathy’s termination. She was the whole damn show, the current Co-host is a joke and not in any good …
Dec 31 2019
Objectivity
(A) philosophical concept of being true independently from individual subjectivity caused by perception, emotions, or imagination. A proposition is considered to have objective truth when its truth conditions are met without bias caused by a sentient subject. Scientific objectivity refers to the ability to judge without partiality or external influence, sometimes used synonymously with neutrality. …
Dec 30 2019
Missing the point entirely.
I’m not actually talking about The New York Times here, but I’ll get around to them. No I’m talking about Igor Derysh at Salon. Stephens’ Saturday column, titled “The Secrets of Jewish Genius,” immediately came under fire after he was accused of “using eugenics talking points” in his piece discussing the alleged superior intelligence of …
Dec 30 2019
A few minutes with Michael Moore
About 2 hours actually. From Democracy Now. Transcript Transcript Transcript
Dec 30 2019
Drip, Drip, Drip
It is a huge mistake to rush Impeachment. Limited to just the Ukraine Scandal alone it implicates in Criminal Activity practically everyone in the Administration and many Republican Members of Congress. All of whom have no even spurious immunity to indictment, prosecution, and conviction. Enjoy your time in prison. Explosive new revelations just weakened Trump’s …
Dec 29 2019
Dogs that won’t hunt.
Make perfectly fine, loving companion animals and probably should not be killed, especially with fire. Right Wing Republican Conspiracy Theories on the other hand… Graham: Rudy Should Scrub Evidence for Russian Propaganda by Erin Banco and Asawin Suebsaeng, Daily Beast Dec. 29, 2019 In the weeks leading up to their impeachment trial, senators on Capitol …