I did some errands and got my annual glaucoma (cheered up by a new doc named Claire, who is definitely easy on the eyes) check-up, then home for lunch and made short work of the newspaper ( Read more... )

Sometimes I get pissed at certain papers (meaning the Times and the Post) and their Websites -- for their automated harrassment when you innocently want to refer your readers to one of their pieces. Like David Ignatius' important op-ed today on the high-stakes confrontation with Iran in the Persian Gulf ( Read more... )

A startling title, but that is how I -- and MILLIONS of my fellow Americans -- feel or SOON will feel about the Border Patrol (USBP), passively "going along" with official mistreatment of asylum seekers and other migrants ( Read more... )

Just as he's made the Fourth of July on the National Mall about himself, the Asshole-in-Chief tonight moved to make the 2020 U.S. Census about his, DJT's, ludicrous vision of a country ruled by his own ridiculous SELF ( Read more... )

The Washington Post last Saturday clarified what the US Government thinks it's defending in the current Huawei dust-up ( Read more... )

Alas, I'm not keeping you gentle readers updated on our disastrous president and his misbegotten deals with Russia. (That is, the Mueller investigation that's now back on Washington's "front burner ( Read more... )

Today, Wednesday Dec 20, was a horrid day in the ongoing horror that is the Trump presidency. Two aspects are equally sordid and disgusting ( Read more... )

Big news: this afternoon it was announced that the ongoing protests over the oil pipeline in the upper Midwest had done the trick. Public pressure has now stopped an environmentally dubious energy project. Stunning ( Read more... )

...And, lo, Superbowl* approacheth! What WILL the day bring?!

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* Or, as Steven Colbert re-coined it, "Superb Owl" -- since the greedy NFL has copyrighted virtually everything to do with the event. Admittedly, even the NFL is outdone by the grasping IOC -- Sochi pity, no?

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