Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg has died, and Moscow Mitch couldn't even wait for her body to get cold before proving what a lousy fucking hypocrite he is. I hate him, and it would give me great pleasure to wake up tomorrow morning and hear that he'd been hit on the head by a large chunk of blue ice from a passing airplane.

Justice Scalia died in ( Read more... )

Wow. It's empty in here. And it's such a shame that so many people (including me) left for Facebook, when, to be quite honest, Facebook sucks. But I pretty much had to add therealljidol to my friends page, just so there'd be something there on a regular basis ( Read more... )

Hillary Clinton's campaign was corrupt. I think it would be pretty hard to argue against that. Maybe she wasn't involved in it (and if she wasn't, what does that say about her?), but her campaign chairman was pretty plainly in cahoots with the Democratic National Convention leadership to subvert the will of the people by not providing all ( Read more... )

. . . it just doesn't want you to know.

Hillary Clinton believes that Russian intelligence agencies hacked the DNC computers and are at the root of the e-mail leaks.

"But I think laying out the facts raises serious issues about Russian interference in our elections, in our democracy," Clinton told Fox in the interview, taped Saturday.
Because ( Read more... )

So, Donald Trump is currently the leading GOP candidate for the 2016 Presidential election. Over a year before the election, that is, which is a really long time.

What confuses me about this is that back in 1992, I'm pretty sure the Republicans were saying that Ross Perot couldn't possibly be a good President, because he was just a businessmanOf ( Read more... )

I think Tsarnaev is probably one of them.

It's too bad the case wasn't over a few weeks ago, or we could have discussed it in Contemporary Moral Issues in our Death Penalty unit.

Gary is probably the punchline to most jokes about Indiana, actually ( Read more... )

. . . and the Air Force needs to have a bake sale to raise money for a new bomber.

AFC School Board Votes to Cut 7 Teachers and four non-faculty positions, too. This is our school district. One of the teachers getting cut, Mr. Taylor, is the art teacher for the junior high and high school. He is both Thing One and Thing Two's favorite teacher ( Read more... )

So, the Taliban managed to get five of their people out of Guantanamo Bay in exchange for a single U.S. sergeant, by threatening to kill him ( Read more... )

That's how one political historian describes Obama's supposed support of gay marriage today. That sounds pretty accurate to me.

I also like this bit from the same article:
Presidents determined to push the nation forward on great social questions give rousing addresses from their bully pulpits. Franklin Roosevelt laid out four freedoms - freedom ( Read more... )