After you give out a $300,000,000 no bid contract to a 2 person firm that happens to be located in a Cabinet Secretary’s home town that his son just happened to used to work for? Puerto Rico is in blackout again after power line fixed by Whitefish fails by Umair Irfan, Vox Nov 10, 2017 …
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Nov 09 2017
About That Big Medicaid Victory in Maine
Maybe no so much. You may have missed it but Seema Verma, head of the Health and Human Services Department’s Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services wants to institute work requirements for benefits. States will be allowed to impose Medicaid work requirements, top federal official says By Paige Winfield Cunningham, Washington Post November 7, 2017 …
Nov 08 2017
Just Last Week!
Look, I doubt there are many who are more supportive of Sam Bee than I, after all I thought they ought to put her and Jason Jones in charge at The Daily Show and do a spoof of the Happy/Eyewitness News Format in the Colbert Pundit mold. It’s still a good idea dammit. Alas she …
Nov 07 2017
Acrophobia
Simply put it’s fear of falling or heights and I have it in spades. Famously it’s the subject of Hitchcock’s Vertigo but I think that and other popular cultural depictions don’t capture the feeling as I experience it. For one thing it’s not paralyzing. If you were hanging off a precipice or should we want …
Nov 07 2017
So, What Is ‘Fake News’?
First, I want to assure you that anything you read on this site, from this author, is fake, no matter how seemingly reputable and well documented the source (The New York Times, Washington Post, Politico, CNN, MSNBC) even if it is accompanied by video or sound recordings and a transcript because, who are you going …
Nov 05 2017
Really?
Pelosi: Impeaching Trump ‘not someplace that I think we should go’ By CRISTIANO LIMA, Politico 11/05/2017 House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said Sunday that even if Democrats were to retake control of the House in the 2018 elections, pushing for impeachment proceedings of President Donald Trump would not be one of their legislative priorities. “It’s …
Nov 03 2017
Bell Peppers
You don’t live to be 120+ years old (mid 30s in 1926, do the math) without being extremely fortunate which is a word we will return to. While it is easy to claim good genetics (Richard and Emily are still kicking too and more ornery than ever) the truth is that my health is not …
Nov 02 2017
Remember, Remember The 4th Of November…
Gunpowder Treason and Plot. Hey, in England it’s a big deal and I won’t claim to give any but the most biased and counterfactual summary (oh, and it’s shallow and superficial too). After Henry VIII and his daughter Elizabeth (a virgin by reputation, certainly unmarried and childless by law, filthy minded Walter Raleigh smokers shut …
Nov 01 2017
About That Tax Cut
Look, a tax cut for, as Lambert terms them, squillionaires is a bad idea on its face for many reasons (none of which are that it adds to the National Debt or Budget Deficits). $4,000 (and that’s just the average, most people get less than nothing) may seem like a lot if you express it …
Oct 31 2017
Drow
Non-canonical(and therefore heretical) the single Proper Noun designates the collective also (He is Drow. Many Drow approach.) This is hardly ever good news since they are elves and also evil (at best neutral) and have all the racial Attributes and Weapon Bonuses attending as well as additional facility with their signature hand held crossbows and …
Oct 31 2017
Indictments Night
I get all of my news from comedians. Otherwise I’d need therapy twice a day. Have You Gone Nose Blind? It’s all Hillary’s fault. Honest. Remember, she’s intimately linked with Rick and Morty’s Szechuan Sauce scandal! The Champagne of Special Councils Festivus for the rest of us