I used to play softball with a guy who litigated large-scale torts, like airplane crashes due to negligence. At a party one night, I suggested that jury awards were way out of proportion, and that this was driving up costs for everyone. Here is essentially the response he gave me at the time, which I copied from something a current-day reader, Rochelle Doty, posted: (more…)
“I love my dad and don’t want him to die,” said the Texas Republican Congressman’s indie musician daughter Caroline, before blaming the president for a lack of remorse.
I hate to laugh at others’ misfortunes, especially when they’re potentially lethal, but there are too many comically weird aspects to this.
First is the bizarre juxtaposition: you’re an indie musician and your father is Louis Gohmert??? That in and of itself must hurt like a b**ch. (more…)
Here’s a cool thing.
She may be stuck at home in social isolation, but watch Buffy slay several different sorts of wasted energy within her own four walls.
Question: What do these elements have in common: Arsenic, cadmium, chromium, copper, lead, manganese, mercury, nickel, selenium, zinc.
Relevance: In a new report released today, A Toxic Relationship: Extreme Coastal Flooding & Superfund Sites, the Union of Concerned Scientists demonstrate how the Trump administration’s sidelining of science would disproportionately put the health of communities of color and low-income communities at risk.
Here’s an article that begins: Objectivity in journalism has come to mean presenting both sides of an argument from a position of neutrality. But not every argument has two sides: some have more, and some statements should not be the subject of argument. (more…)
There really are going to be quite a few heroes made before we get Trump behind us.
The ironic part is that they’ve come places that progressives never could have possibly imagined: ExxonMobil, the FBI, and a slew of admirals and four-star generals.
Hell, I found myself admiring Mitt Romney for voting to convict Trump after he was impeached in the House. Would’ve given long odds against that ever happening.
As I’ve mentioned, my mom is a life-long conservative Republican, and now in her elder years, unfortunately, a Fox News devotee. Nonetheless, we have extremely civil and mutually respectful discussions on politics.
One of her observations of me, is that, regrettably, I regard people who disagree with me as “bad human beings.” I have to admit this is true, if that point of disagreement is something with heavy moral implications. (Obviously, I’m fine with people who dislike my favored art, music, literature, outdoor activities, brands of beer, etc.) (more…)
Well, that’s an interesting coincidence. No incitement to violence reduces the level of violence to zero.
As they say in song, who woulda thunk it?
It’s hard to think of a single person in history who made a marked improvement in the lives of the common person who did so without irritating the living bejeesus out of the people in power at the time.
From Frederick Douglass: “It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.” (more…)
It appears that Trump is making a multi-pronged attack on the November election with a variety of voter suppression tools. Assuming, however, that he will ultimately fail and faces a free and fair process, it’s clear that he will no longer be president after January 21, 2021. At that point, we need to expect indictments to rocket down from the sky like a hard, pelting hail-storm.
It will be interesting to see what tack prosecutors like. The author of the cartoon here suggests that money-laundering will take a key position. But does that seem more likely than any of several others? (more…)
