Joe, uh, no you don’t. In fact, you can’t. You don’t reflect our values, and we’d prefer that you not pretend otherwise.
But almost every one of us will vote for you, for the precise reason that (American humorist) David Sedaris outlines here.
The meme here comes from former U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich. What does it mean?
Well, at a minimum, it shows that the stock market and the financial well-being of the common American have absolutely no bearing on one another. What’s good for the top 1% has essentially nothing to do with the quality of life for the working class. (more…)
This seems like a bizarre assertion, even from William Barr, a man with no more allegiance to the truth than his boss.
Let’s look at the charts below and ask ourselves: Do the people of the Deep South (living in poverty and ignorance) have a freer society than those of New England (living in affluence and higher education)? Do the Africans (living with disease, malnutrition and tyranny), the Middle Easterners (living in theocratic regimes) and Central/South Americans (living with violent crime and poverty) have freer societies than the Australians, Canadians, and Europeans (living with free education and healthcare, and generous vacation schedules)?
A related question: How much longer do we have to have liars and fools running our country?
Those who remember the 2007 film “There Will Be Blood” will get a charge out of this parody, made by my extremely talented friend, actor, impressionist, artist and comedian Jim Meskimen.
I’m guessing that he wrote this and tweaked it to his satisfaction before the performance, but I’ve seen him do things like this extemporaneously–just amazing.
Borowitz wields an amazing level of talent. We all have access to the same current events, but only one guy was able to weave these two together. So brilliant.
Here’s a conversation about Trump’s firing the Inspector General overseeing the new Pandemic Response Accountability Committee. Jeff is a friend from my school days.
Jeff: President Trump fired another Inspector General today. (more…)
We love you, Bernie, but this is the right thing to do. We will have another chance to pull the U.S. into the modern world politically, but we won’t escape massive damage to our democracy, our environment, and everything else we care about, if we don’t get Trump out of office.
When the good people of Mississippi elected Republican Tate Reeves to govern their state in 2019, they did it, at least in part, based on his long history of ties to pro-Confederate groups. These are voters who look back with fondness of the days when the United States came close to splitting in two because the south was willing to fight to the death to defend its right to own slaves. (more…)
That’s the headline from an article in today’s Washington Post. It appears that, since New Zealand’s coronavirus lockdown on all nonessential activities, it took only 10 days for signs that the approach here is working. They’re targeting “elimination” rather than the “containment” goal of the United States and other Western countries, and it’s having stunning results.
Here’s a deeply moving article by legendary environmentalist Bill McKibben, covering the greed and criminality of the oil companies and the banks that support them, explaining how they’re capitalizing on the pandemonium caused by the coronavirus to push through their planet-killing tar sands pipelines. By way of reference, it is these very pipelines that are designed to carry away the material, which when consumed, will represent “game over for the planet,” according to climate scientist James Hansen. (more…)
