I took some serious guff for surmising that the story here is a joke; the article covers a new cargo ship with rigid, material-heavy sales, and I can’t imagine that this is really happening. Check out this exchange: Me: This …
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American Life in 2020
As you watch this adorable little video here, remind yourself: About 43% of Americans want four more years of this. They have only vague understandings that the United States has been singularly lame in its handling of the pandemic, that …
COVID-19 Vaccine Time Line
Could someone please explain something to me? How does a president, any president, “rush out a vaccine?” Obviously, there standard medical protocols that gauge safety and efficacy. Who in the hell would get a vaccination that the scientific community as …
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Someone Asks: “Roger Stone–Winner or Loser?”
Person A: Winner Me: I suppose it depends on how one feels about felons. I raised my kids to believe that criminals were losers regardless of how much money and power they had. I think I made the right call …
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National Football League Takes Civilized Tack, Defies Trump
If the California Frisbee Golf Association had come out with a statement to the effect that it supported its players’ right to protest, it might not have had the same impact as NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell’s publicly apologizing for not …
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Trump Support: Who’s Left?
Since Trump’s attacking the U.S. military has cost him the support of a great swath of the right wing, one wonders: who’s left? With the left and center gone, the only remaining constituencies appear to be a) hardcore racists/gun nuts, …
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Americans Struggle To Draw Conclusions, Even When the Facts Are Completely Clear
As a schoolboy, I once made a comment about something that was always quite clear to everyone, and a friend told me, “Craig, you have a firm grasp on the obvious.” The photograph here brings that moment back into focus …
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Two Views of Putin
Look at the faces of Merkel and Macron. That’s intensity. They know their looking into the eyes of pure evil, and each would do anything in their power to destroy it. Trump seems to have a different feeling about Putin. …
America’s Historic Cruelty
The rather intense-looking fellow at the upper right is John C. Calhoun, U.S. vice president from 1825 to 1832 under James Monroe. That scowl was indicative of America at the time, rooted as it was in wanton cruelty. 1830 saw …
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Questionable Solar Installation
Are you an expert in solar PV installations? Neither am I. But I think we both know enough about the subject to understand that putting a solar panel under a bridge isn’t a strong idea.
