At the Easter Egg roll (reduced in size from the last one due to sloppy and belated organization) today he’s in the crowd when a kid asks him to sign his red MAGA hat. Trump does so, and then does he hand it back to the kid who owns it? He does not. He flips …
By a vote of 51.4% – 48.6% the Turks approved a referendum today which gives their current President executive powers similar to those of the US President. There’s some question as to how legitimate a lot of the “yes” votes were, though: The CHP is refusing to accept the Yes victory and is demanding a …
Our lily will enhance the experience tomorrow as we gorge on sliced ham, potato salad, baked beans and chocolate bunnies. About the latter: ears first?
I was too hungry to focus the new smartphone.
This, ladies and gentlemen, is a spiteful little man named Mark Brody who thinks his and his Republican party’s views on transgender people are righter than any old governing athletic body like the NCAA or the Atlantic Coast Conference. He and four co-sponsors have introduced a bill in the NC State Legislature which states that …
Hmm. Who had the worse week, Pepsi and its now-pulled “Kendall Jenner joins the demo!” ad? United Airlines and its “re-accommodation” of a passenger because it needed the space to send four of its employees to Louisville? Or Presidential flack Sean Spicer and his multiple missteps about Hitler and chemical gas usage? I think I’m …
If you’re interested in a curated podcast of folk music with one theme for each session, you should listen to Jim Moran’s Folk Music Podcast, a bimonthly show often partially broadcast on KPFK FM in Los Angeles as part of its “Roots Music and Beyond” program. It’s an outgrowth of Jim’s work at his blog …
Brian Beutler at The New Republic: At his regular, end-of-session Capitol briefing on Friday, just before the Senate confirmed Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, Mitch McConnell took a victory lap for himself. “As I look back on my career,” he said, “I think the most consequential decision I’ve ever been involved in was the …
First the Senate Republicans, as promised, destroyed years of Senate traditions in order to place another conservative vote onto the Supreme Court, a long-term goal of theirs. It started with Bush v. Gore, when five conservative justices abruptly halted the recount of Florida’s ballots in the 2000 election and made George W. Bush president. [snip] …
The first two are hazards during rounds of golf, but falling down the wooden stairs at the house you’ve rented for the Masters Tournament is unusual. That’s what Dustin Johnson did today, landing on his lower back and elbows. Considering the odds he’d win the tournament were 11-2 before the fall, this may throw the …
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