This amazing drawing by Italian impressionist Maurizio Rega reminded me that someone wrote recently, “Ignorance is mocking vegetarians while at the same time crying over vanishing rainforests.”
First of all, the only people who ridicule vegetarians are ass****s, but it’s hard to imagine that this really applies to anyone. How likely is it that someone so degraded would care about the health of the ecosphere?
Shown here: Derrick Evans resigns W.Va. House after entering U.S. Capitol with mob
The good people of West Virginia, bless their hearts, must be asking themselves which is worse: being led by a criminal traitor, or by someone dumb enough to video himself committing treason and posting it online?
Yes, it’s a wonderful journey. For the masses of gullible morons, it’s full of guns, bombs, gallows, criminal trespass, vandalism, theft, assault, battery, murder, treason, and long prison terms.
For it’s leader, it’s chock full of obstruction, incitement to insurrection, treason, and, you guessed it, an even longer prison term.
Onward!
I wish this were an original thought of mine, but it isn’t.
Who doesn’t want this to happen? We’ll have a built-in reminder of this amazing event into American history, and a warning to all future wanna-be dictators.
Obviously, Donald Trump is at the top of the list of the world’s most reviled people, but if there were a contest for the #2 position, Lindsey Graham would have an excellent shot. A man with no personal integrity whatsoever, Graham simply shifts in the breeze according to whatever position seems at the time to forward his wealth and power. (more…)
A reader notes: Real patriots know how to spell and construct sentences.
Ha! Good point.
Funnier still is this boob’s threat to take on the 1.3 million members of U.S. law enforcement, assisted as necessary by 1.1 million active-duty members of the military and their $750 billion budget.
Talk about high TV ratings. Lots of people all over the world on couches, munching popcorn.
A reader notes: The last is the most important. The others pale in comparison.
Subscribing to Mother Jones is a very good thing to do.
It’s a make or break moment for democracy, and being informed has never mattered more.
I know I’ve mentioned that I tutor at the local schools and the junior college in Santa Barbara and that I, like anyone who’s had these experiences, learned quickly that there are effective and ineffective ways of getting certain concepts across. In many cases, it’s just best to give an example and let that illustrate the idea.
For one gearhead who was having trouble with “force = mass * acceleration,” I said, “You’ve taken the engine and tranny out of your car parked in the street, right? OK, imagine that there was no friction between the road and the car’s wheels, and you were pushing it, adding force in a certain direction, it would accelerate in that direction, right? Now, if you and a buddy were both pushing it, your force would be twice as much, and so it would accelerate twice as fast. Now imagine that you put the engine and tranny back in, adding mass, you’d need more force to get the same acceleration.”
Some concepts are really tough to put into words, and that examples are really the only way to get the job done. Take the idea of irony in literature. I could define it: “a state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often amusing as a result,” or I could simply provide the example that we see above.
As someone who marches in favor of things like science in policy-making, Black Lives Matter, women’s rights, banning new oil pipelines, or whatever, this made me smile. There really is a certain look that compatriots and I have, and, correspondingly, there are certain things that are extremely rare: racist tattoos, confederate flags, and AR-15s chief among them. (more…)
