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    Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch met with Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut on Wednesday, February 8 to talk about very big stuff. After their meeting, Senator Blumenthal was quick to point out that Gorsuch told him that he found president trump’s tweets about a Seattle judge who granted a restraining order against the enforcement of trump’s Muslim ban to be “demoralizing” and “disheartening”. Mainstream media was just as quick to breathlessly trumpet Gorsuch’s comments as a “sign of independence”. Let’s break down why this is bullshit, and why the media (CNN especially) might be so eager to lick that plate of bullshit clean thatRead More →

This appeared on Twitter early this morning: I call my own shots, largely based on an accumulation of data, and everyone knows it. Some FAKE NEWS media, in order to marginalize, lies! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 6, 2017 This seemingly cryptic tweet came as a result, we can only guess, of a piece in The New York Times that suggested that president trump signed the executive order naming Steve Bannon to the National Security Council’s principals committee without reading it. The Times piece suggested that trump was unaware that the order he signed was placing Bannon on the NSC, and that trump was angryRead More →

  “So you’ve been to school for a year or two, and you know you’ve seen it all….” – Dead Kennedys, “Holiday in Cambodia” I was a junior in high school in 1986 when I was walking down the hall one day behind a senior who was wearing what at first glance appeared to be a concert tour shirt. When I got closer to him in the hallway, I saw that it was a…satirical?…shirt that was something along the lines of “Hitler: European Tour 1939-1945” with a list of all the countries he invaded and the dates he invaded them. I remember something about theRead More →

president trump turns our Supreme Court Justice selection process into a pageant by parading out his top two picks, or, should he say, his first runner-up, and the winner of his pageant, Mr. Supreme Court. trump has promised that evangelicals will love his pick. Why is the president revealing his judicial pick in this manner? Because we have turned the serious business of running a nation into a D-list reality show, and because our new president likes to make a spectacle of both himself and everything he does. Meanwhile, acting Attorney General Sally Yates was fired after refusing to honor trump’s Muslim ban. The WhiteRead More →

So ya Thought ya Might like to  Go to the show. To feel that warm thrill of confusion, That space cadet glow. I’ve got some bad news for you sunshine, Pink isn’t well, he stayed back at the hotel And they sent us along as a surrogate band We’re gonna find out where you fans really stand. Are there any queers in the theater tonight? Get them up against the wall! There’s one in the spotlight, he don’t look right to me, Get him up against the wall! That one looks Jewish! And that one’s a coon! Who let all of this riff-raff into theRead More →

One of the most ubiquitous chants at trump campaign events during the 2016 Presidential campaigns was the incessant drum-beat of “Lock her up! Lock her up! Lock her up!” trump could be seen pumping his fist in the air at many of his events, encouraging them to continue the chant. At other events, he would start the chant himself. It was a mainstay at his campaign stops, just like his Wall rhetoric. It was one of his greatest stump hits. The chant was a reference to Hillary Clinton and the allegations that she committed serious crimes for using a private email server and/or account (dependingRead More →

When I was a child, I read Carl Sagan’s Cosmos. The book opened up my mind to the vastness of the universe, and the wonder of our own celestial world. I read about about Albert Einstein’s ideas that gravity wasn’t actually a force that pulled objects toward each other, but was instead an object’s mass causing our very universe itself to curve in on itself. What I remember about that theory of Einstein’s was that it took 4 years before anyone could offer any evidence that it was true. For four years, the man who is now synonymous with genius had to have his most famousRead More →

Friday’s inauguration was sparsely attended in relation to previous inaugurations. No one really expected there to be the same kinds of numbers witnessed for the Barack Obama inauguration, and no one could hold anyone guilty of not achieving those numbers. But, as we learned over the weekend, the crowd for trump’s inauguration, as can be seen in the post immediately before this one, became the talk of the weekend, especially after more than twice as many protesters showed up to march in Washington D.C. the day after the inauguration. Here’s a brief breakdown of the weekend’s events: Friday: trump is inaugurated and gives a speech notedRead More →

    2009: The Inauguration of President Barack Obama   2017: The inauguration of donald trump Keep in mind, most of those in the bottom photo are protesters.  Read More →

I wasn’t a universal fan of everything Barack Obama did, but I also believe history will judge him as one of our top 10. Tonight is the last night the Obamas will inhabit the White House, and amidst all the social media trolls making ridiculously racist statements, I have to take pause and reflect on this momentous moment. I never believed I would live to see America’s first black president, and I’m equally confident I won’t live to see our first woman president. I hope I’m wrong, but I’m more cynical than I often prefer. As Patton Oswalt tweeted the day after the election: WhatRead More →