A reader sent me this and notes: “The greatest #American of all-time Jesus Christ stands with the #truckers in #Ottawa #Canada against the #covid_19 #covid #vaccine.” I normally refrain from ridiculing others’ religious beliefs, but this calls for an exception, …
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January 6th Committee Has Its Hands Full
OMG, this is getting hot. It’s amazing to see that so many of the “conservatives” at the highest level of government are completely corrupt, and that this is unraveling for all to see. This particular piece of the story would …
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Are Wind Turbines Causing Birth Defects in Portuguese Horses? Er, No, But Does That Matter?
Here’s an article from NPR that provides a partial explanation for the slow adoption of wind energy in the U.S.: misinformation. Americans seem to have a voracious appetite for BS, regardless of the subject matter, and that hunger is amplified …
Removing Clarence Thomas from the U.S. Supreme Court
Regarding the meme here, concerning Clarence Thomas and his insurrectionist wife, a reader says: Or you should be impeached if you don’t have the personal integrity to resign. I have bad news about Clarence Thomas’ integrity. If he had any, …
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Abortion Rights on the Run–What It Means in Terms of Demographics
It should come as a surprise to no one that, as half of the United States shifts (actually, squirts) to the extreme right, abortion rights are in the process of going away–at least in the red states. Given that we …
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What It Means to “Defund the Police”
This is what’s known as defunding the police. It means calling the police off of incidents in which no physical force is required, allowing them to focus the entirety of their efforts where someone could be injured of killed. See …
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Evil and Stupidity Tend To Regulate Themselves
One of the forces that works in the favor of compassion and reason in this country is the sabotage that hateful morons often inflict on themselves. Whether it’s insurrectionists going to prison, or idiots like the one here living in …
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Examining American Stupidity
This is a very interesting idea, but I don’t believe it for a second. Think for a moment what Trump’s political career would have been like if he had come on the scene 20 years ago. He would have made …
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Intellectual Dishonesty
Hillsdale College is a far-right wing institution that performs pseudo surveys like the one shown here. As with everything we encounter from the ultra conservatives, it involves both lies and oversimplifications. First of all, who’s stupid enough to believe that …
Madeleine Albright Helps Us Remember that Trump Committed Treason
The passing of Madeleine Albright reminds us of exactly how blatantly treasonous Trump’s behavior was, even early in his term. On her show Fresh Air, Terry Gross asked Albright in a 2018 interview what she would have done had she …
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