Evening News Reads: Airing of Grievances
Good Evening, sorry this is late again today. Strange… See I was making some coffee, since I missed a cup this morning and my head complained about the lack of caffeine. While waiting for the java to...
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Good Morning!! Let’s get right to the news. I’m going to start with a couple of items that should particularly interest Dakinikat. First, Charlie Pierce wrote a post yesterday about Bobby Jindal’s...
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Vintage ad for oranges… Good Morning Some of the links this morning are upsetting. I will just put that out there. Let’s start with a bang shall we? In Texas yesterday, there was yet another execution....
View ArticleWe Need to Reboot the Two Party System
When in the course of human events, a political system becomes so corrupt and so obviously subservient to theocrats, corporatecrats, and plutocrats, the people living under the system need to...
View ArticleWednesday Reads: Winter…Sunlight, Monsters and Tolkien
Good Morning! Finally…we have a nippy morning here in Banjoland! I love the cold weather, it makes sleeping late in a nice cozy bed even more enjoyable. There was another shooting late yesterday, this...
View ArticleThe Tax Payer-Funded Dumbing of America
It’s hard to believe that we’re living in a political environment where elected officials are bemoaning waste in all levels of government while sending so many public funds and assets to underwrite...
View ArticleLate Night: Chain of Fools
The President released his budget today, and it includes the promised benefit cuts to Social Security that the White House has tried to conceal by claiming it wants to institute a supposedly “more...
View ArticleSunday Reads: Billion Pixels of Red Dust and a Cast Iron Petticoat
Good Morning And here we are, another Sunday morning…well, yesterday was the first time in weeks that I found myself suffering from a migraine. As I write this post, I still feel the after effects;...
View ArticleBreaking News and Wednesday Reads: Senator Davis Filibuster Works in Texas!...
Texas State Sen. Wendy Davis (D) of Fort Worth, waits for a ruling on a rules violation during her filibusters of an abortion bill, Tuesday, June 25, in Austin, Texas. Senator Davis was given a second...
View ArticleWednesday Reads: Something Else Beyond Denial
There must be a thing, something beyond denial, that people with all sense and reason experience. Beyond comprehension it seems. Beyond explanation. Even now as I write these words…the mind and heart...
View ArticleThursday Reads: Through the Looking Glass?
Reading Woman, Armando Barrios Good Morning!! I’ve spent the past week or so reading escapist literature and watching old TV shows in an effort to anesthetize myself against the overload of bad news...
View ArticleLazy Saturday Reads: Ebola, Texas, and Crazed Republicans
Good Day!! There are two confirmed cases of Ebola contracted within the U.S., and now we have an “Ebola Czar.” President Obama has named Ron Klain, a lawyer and political operative who most recently...
View ArticleWednesday Reads: Getting Medieval on the GOP’s Ass!
Hey Y’all I could not bear to write a post today. So just take this one for what it is, my overzealous attempt to find a few Medieval images for the thread that reminded me of the GOP idiots who are...
View ArticleWoman in Red: Debate, Election and the Shutdown…The GOP’s Albescent-churian...
Good Morning As promised…I bring you the latest edition of The Woman in Red….(It has taken me days, in fact almost the last 24 hours has been straight on through.) You can read the earlier issues at...
View ArticleSunday Reads: Happy Motherhood is a Pre-existing Condition Day!
Happy Mother’s Day…. Or as one person in the Twitterverse puts it: Happy Motherhood Is A Preexisting Condition Day, from the GOP. — OhNoSheTwitnt (@OhNoSheTwitnt) May 13, 2018 (If you aren’t...
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