It feels like it, anyway. AARP was sponsoring what it called a “Shred Fest” today, open to all at one of the commercial document destruction plants on Oahu. Luckily for me, it was right at the bottom of my hill. That was scheduled between 8-12 this morning. In an odd coincidence, the DEA scheduled one …
Charlie Pierce: The 2016 presidential campaign—and the success of Donald Trump on the Republican side—has been a triumph of how easily memory can lose the struggle against forgetting and, therefore, how easily society can lose the struggle against power. There is so much that we have forgotten in this country. We’ve forgotten, over and over …
today the organization seems to have earned it. Headline: NCAA votes to oppose discrimination at its events The organization’s Board of Governors, at its quarterly meeting in Indianapolis, adopted a new requirement for sites hosting or bidding on NCAA events in all divisions — from Final Fours to educational conferences. Those host sites must “demonstrate …
Nothing against Fallon, but I miss the Johnny Carson version of the Tonight Show. I have a memory of watching it on a portable black-and-white television set while in high school. My mother claims that never happened, but how would she know? She was in bed at the time.
It used to be that when politicians wanted to curry favor with veterans they’d head for American Legion halls and VFW gatherings, or more recently rallies put on by Iraq and Afghanistan Vets or a dozen other organizations. This year, though, many Republicans have seized upon the Veterans Administration’s widely publicized difficulties providing health care …
Headline: Cruz and Kasich devise strategy to keep Trump from clinching three primary states The campaigns of Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas and Gov. John Kasich released written statements within minutes of each other Sunday night calling for Kasich to effectively stop competing in Indiana and for Cruz to clear the way for Kasich in …
I’m not entirely sure that’s what photographer Michael Shainblum calls his work, but after seeing this picture at Phil Plait’s Bad Astronomy blog at Slate, he should. My goodness. Go look and read.
In New York today 175 nations signed the Paris climate accord reached last December. That is far more than had done so on a single day for any previous global agreement — but it still is also only a step toward the accord becoming international law. For that to happen, at least 55 countries representing …
So said 47 Senate Republicans when they voted today against providing federal aid for children affected by the lead in those pipes. They claim they want to help Flint but they cannot agree on a funding mechanism. Meanwhile, the pipes are still corroding thanks to the junk that was in the Flint River water. Even …
For starters, here’s a 2:47 minute mini-biography of her: She was born in Maryland in 1820 and escaped from slavery in 1849 with two of her brothers. For reasons I can’t imagine, her brothers returned to the plantation from which they’d run. She accompanied them back there and then made use of the network known …