Remember Carter Page? The Trump’s foreign policy advisor who they denied hiring or even knowing; who admitted that he was Male #1 in an FBI investigation of a Russian spy ring; and was closely affiliated with the Russian energy company Gazprom. Page’s problem’s with the FBI just got a lot worse. FBI obtained FISA warrant …
April 2017 archive
Apr 12 2017
The Inept Administration’s Antisemitism
You really have to work hard to be as inept as the Trump administration. Yesterday’s press conference with Sean Spicer at the helm was a prime example. In an attempt to condemn Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for attacking a village with Sarin gas, Spicer compared him to Hitler but not how you would thing and …
Apr 12 2017
The Breakfast Club (Denial)
Welcome to The Breakfast Club! We’re a disorganized group of rebel lefties who hang out and chat if and when we’re not too hungover we’ve been bailed out we’re not too exhausted from last night’s (CENSORED) the caffeine kicks in. Join us every weekday morning at 9am (ET) and weekend morning at 10:30am (ET) to …
Apr 11 2017
Acrophobia
I haz it. I can hardly bear to stand next to a steep drop or precipice whether the structure is man-made or natural, think Empire State Building or cliff (though I can and frequently do, my fear does not master me. On other hand I don’t like it at all.). That’s not why I hate …
Apr 11 2017
Gun Safety Update
Only three of these stories are not from The Onion. NRA Employee Accidentally Shoots Himself On The Job An employee for the National Rifle Association accidentally shot himself Thursday during a firearms training session. The 46-year-old man was holstering his pistol when it accidentally discharged, NBC Washington reports. The incident happened at the NRA’s …
Apr 11 2017
The Breakfast Club (Infuriating)
Welcome to The Breakfast Club! We’re a disorganized group of rebel lefties who hang out and chat if and when we’re not too hungover we’ve been bailed out we’re not too exhausted from last night’s (CENSORED) the caffeine kicks in. Join us every weekday morning at 9am (ET) and weekend morning at 10:30am (ET) to …
Apr 10 2017
Bouncing The Rubble
It is a little known fact (well, except to students of history and military affairs) that blowing up flat places and chunks of concrete closes airstrips for exactly as long as it takes to bulldoze the place flat again and toss some Marston Mat on top, especially for Russian planes which are designed from the …
Apr 10 2017
Dirty Talk From Bill O’Reilly
With a prose style like that you can see why all the women want him and all the men want to be like him.
Apr 10 2017
Reapportionment
There, I’ve made it not just as dull as a British person drawing a map, but just as dull as a British person explaining drawing a map.
Apr 10 2017
The Breakfast Club (Filibuster)
Welcome to The Breakfast Club! We’re a disorganized group of rebel lefties who hang out and chat if and when we’re not too hungover we’ve been bailed out we’re not too exhausted from last night’s (CENSORED) the caffeine kicks in. Join us every weekday morning at 9am (ET) and weekend morning at 10:30am (ET) to …
Apr 09 2017
Cuckold
It means a man with a sexually unfaithful wife. Even the concept has sexist, homophobic, and misogynous implications that I may explore later under a “women as property” theme, but I suspect the reason “cuck” is an attractive term to conservatives of a politically incorrect mindset is the alliteration and assonance with a certain, more …