Nope. It’s definitely you.

Manafort checks into VIP section at Virginia jail where Chris Brown, Michael Vick also did time by Tom Jackman, Washington Post June 16,2018 The Northern Neck jail roster indicates more than 600 inmates are currently in custody. Inmates are permitted one personal visit per week. Manafort, a former campaign chairman for President Trump, was assigned …

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I don’t know what so-called “news” you’ve been watching, but this has been a week of unparalleled triumph (which is only 2 letters away from Trump in the dictionary which smart people know is a really big book with words in it). First we got a chance to MAGA all those United States hating foreigners …

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What are you so damn happy about?

No, not today’s Justice Department Inspector General report on Comey’s Hillary investigation nothingburger, this weekend’s Nuclear Apocalypse with the DPRK nothingburger. Now back to more news about Pete Davidson and Ariana Grande Did you want fries with that? That’s why they call it acting For you consideration

Our form of government does not enter into rivalry with the institutions of others. Our government does not copy our neighbors’, but is an example to them. It is true that we are called a democracy, for the administration is in the hands of the many and not of the few. But while there exists …

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Just saying. 312 in Combat. Not that I’m bitter, I’m not even Canadian. I find it both ironic and ignorant. Sixty Six minutes if you can stand the strain and I only present the entirety so you can note the historical misconceptions. If you desire a shorter and more humorous digest I suggest Trevor Noah. …

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Sigh. If you’re not in the biz which is show you may not know that your elevator pitch is the five minute sales presentation you make to the mover and shaker who can greenlight the project to which you’ve devoted your life of Mary Sue fandom who happens to be momentarily trapped in a small …

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At the dawn of the Intertubz huge and fearsome kitties roamed free, the ground quivering at every step. Or maybe that was lizards, I get confused. Anyway they lived then to make us happy today as Charlie Pierce would say.

As Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, said in 1848- “We have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and those interests it is our duty to follow.” It is hard for me therefore to ethically condemn a nation for acting in those interests despite them being …

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And you think I’m a geek. Jenny Nicholson on Ready Player One. Oh, it’s about Economics too.