Re: the meme here, a reader notes: If you don’t think Nikki Haley and Joe Biden would split the non-MAGA vote, you’re not paying attention. Personally I think it would be more likely that Nikki Haley and Trump would split …
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Michael Fanone worked for the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia from 2001 until his retirement following the storming of the U.S. Capitol in 2021. What he says here I find interesting. Two points: MAGA congresspeople appear to …
The Democracy Now! article begins: This year, there are at least 2,456 lobbyists at COP28, the U.N. climate summit in Dubai — nearly four times as many as last year — from companies like Shell, Total and ExxonMobil. The lobbyists …
Here’s a reminder that we can have both a working Second Amendment and a ban on weapons of war.
Obviously, there are reasons that we’re still talking about Marcus Aurelius 2000 years after his death–and here’s one of them. He seems to have possessed an ability to think rationally and without prejudice. He would have made a very bad …
Here’s David Letterman’s suggestion to this effect. I would simply add that the “home” needs to have bars on its windows and doors.
One would think that the list of demographics that would refuse to vote for Trump is so large that the former president would be hard-put to get more than about 30% of the popular vote in the general election. Think …
Where do you break the chain of single-use plastic? The manufacturer? The distributor? The retailer? The consumer? There is no correct (or incorrect) answer, but, as shown in the photo, there is no good reason that it can’t be the …
But he’s sane, competent, and decent. That’s quite a contrast.
In addition to what Spinoza said here, we have Hegel’s clever remark that “the only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.” Regardless, what we’re running into here and now in the United States is …
