From the Boston Globe: The Texas lawsuit asking the US Supreme Court to invalidate Joe Biden’s victory has quickly become a conservative litmus test, as 106 members of Congress and multiple state attorneys general signed onto the case even as some have predicted it will fail. (more…)
I don’t envy guys with lots of money, big cars or trophy wives.
I’d be lying, however, if I said that I don’t envy the amazing intelligence and wit of New Yorker journalist Andy Borowitz. About his meme here he writes, “The new option will accommodate the surging number of stooges and lackeys who have been shopping for pardons this holiday season.”
Considering the grave threat to U.S. democracy and the shameful cowardice the Senate is showing in making it worse, the terror of the pandemic, the restrictions it imposes on all of us, the financial stress it places on the majority of Americans, and all the rest, it’s a wonderful blessing to have Borowitz around, a leader in laughter, a hero in humor.
A reader requested comments on his query at the left.
This isn’t a yes-or-no question; in other words, yes, I would think this is one of the many mechanisms that lies behind climate denialism. Here are a few others: (more…)
Remarkably, conservatives disapprove of the teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg, on the basis that she’s an angry child who should be in school rather than making noise about a branch of science that she doesn’t fully understand. (more…)
I know there are people who think that extreme right-wing violence pre- and post-inauguration is a needless worry, and that the notion that this is even possible is demeaning to the garden-variety Trump supporter.
I wish I could believe that. It’s true that there have been more death threats than actual acts of violence, but it seems that we’re going about our business with the Sword of Damocles hanging over our heads.
In his ongoing attempt to inject as much hostility as possible into the U.S. culture, paralleling the strategy that Trump himself has found so useful, Rush Limbaugh said on his show yesterday, “I actually think that we’re trending toward secession, It can’t go on this way. There cannot be a peaceful coexistence of two completely different theories of life, theories of government, theories of how we manage our affairs. We can’t be in this dire a conflict without something giving somewhere along the way.” Why not incite violence in an already hate-filled society? (more…)
This raises an interesting question, if I can be pardoned for dabbling in gossip for a moment here.
Given a) the less-than-amorous relationship between Donald and Melania, b) his descent into lunacy, c) his removal from office, d) his exposure to criminal prosecution, and e) the spate of right-wing violence that is almost bound to take place as we approach and move past the inauguration, where will Melania go, and how will she be received when she gets there?
When my wife and I were in Slovenia last year, the people seemed proud that one of their own was the First Lady of the United States. Will Trump’s humiliating post-election antics make any change there?
From Historic Moments: This is known as one of medicine’s most incredible moments. In 1922, at the University of Toronto, scientists went to a hospital ward with children who were comatose and dying from diabetic keto-acidosis. Imagine a room full of parents sitting at the bedside waiting for the inevitable death of their child. The scientists went from bed to bed and injected the children with the new purified extract – insulin. As they began to inject the last comatose child, the first child injected began to awaken. One by one, all of the children awoke from their diabetic comas. A room of death and gloom, became a place of joy and hope. Thank You Dr. Banting and Dr. Best!
One hundred years later we have anti-maskers, antivaxxers, flat-Earthers, climate deniers, QAnoners, as well as believers in chemtrails, the “plandemic,” and the malice of people and things like Bill Gates, George Soros, fluoridated water, and the Clintons.
Are we headed the right way? Hard to tell.
An old friend sent me this piece on the Aptera, an EV “new” to the market and powered by the sun, asking for my comments.
A couple of things: (more…)
Imagine the duck (goose?) here is American democracy. Here’s how close it was to the end.
