Stupid or wilfully forgetful?

Mississippi’s Republican Governor Phil Bryant tried to blame the Affordable Care Act as the reason his state is the only one in which the number of people without health insurance has gone up since the Affordable Care Act was judged constitutional in 2012. Fascinating, since Governor Bryant is one of the many Republicans who have …

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All can be revealed

We have an old family joke that involves one of us making a fool of himself or herself. Someone else will call him or her a bassoon, then quickly catch the word and say “I mean buffoon.” Here’s the source of the joke, from way back in October of 1952.