So, why did Goldberg hire Williamson in the first place? Certainly there was zero due diligence done, especially egregious given the massive amounts of readily available evidence and the presumed mission of the company to report accurately and fairly. It seems too stupid and simplistic to assume this hire would…

I have such a strong negative reaction to this silly, shallow book and film that I wondered why. It’s not just that it’s an entirely empty and cynically synthetized junk food product. I think it’s because of the timing: our real world here in the US is at such a horrifying point right now that there is a…

Growing up in central Texas, I saw a very scary green-clouded storm. There were a couple of swirling eddies passing by overhead and sudden cold gusts on what had been a stifling hot day. Didn’t see a tornado, but they evacuated the hilltop parts of my grade school for a while. (I felt the gusts and saw the eddies…

Neat story, glad he was able to come through with those saves.

Absolutely yes. The Rethugs will do absolutely anything to hold on to power and keep their gerrymandered, unfair districting maps. When ordered to hold fair elections instead, they attack the judges and try to keep the unconstitutional maps or delay required special elections that might threaten their illegal…

Yes, it’s vital to watch and report and support legal actions where they are needed. Plus, we vote the enabling fascist Congressional bastards the hell out.

ICE wants to be an intelligence agency reporting to Trump, with all the secret data access that spy agencies have: https://www.thedailybeast.com/ice-wants-to-be-an-intelligence-agency-under-trump

Oh, good! I really like imagining that the Moana ammonite has pleased more than one observant and imaginative person in its long history.

I wish we could know whether there is other glacial till or out-of-place exotic stones in the area where Naomi found the ammonite. If it is a one-of-a-kind situation, then the human agency theory looks more likely.

Bought it in a gift shop and dropped it?! What a sad lack of imagination. I’m with you on this: surely that fern fossil was moved by either a human being who found it interesting or by a glacier. Funny to have two out-of-place-fossil stories the same day.

According to the History Blog report, she was seven years old (http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/50951 ). Here are images from that post showing her stony ammonite and the fictional Moana stone it reminds her of:

I’ve commented before on how the Trump regime’s failure to aid Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands after the hurricane was more than incompetence, it is part of a deliberate policy to foster venture capitalism and privatization of the islands, an ongoing for-profit scheme: https://theslot.jezebel.com/1821673054

So awful, so depressing, so shameful.

If he had the power - which he believes will be dropped into his lap by divine intervention - he’d have all those women dragged away.

Yep, they don’t call Pence “Q-tip Jeebus” for nothing. I’m sure he ignores the fact that the real Jesus and his followers would likely have been olive-skinned, dark-haired and brown-eyed. But then the name is only used as a prop to excuse whatever horrible, hateful moves they want to make. I’m not religious, but I…

The adults are so afraid of home invasion by immigrants, “mooslims,” dark-skinned people, everyone they’ve been trained to fear by right-wing media and political demagogues, they have loaded guns ready for “self-defense.”

Yes, he wants to bomb everybody all the time, a crazy person who has managed to hang around Republicans in power and make things even worse. But he is most especially rabid about destroying the Iran agreement and bombing the hell out of that country for ... reasons? As suggestible as Trump is, Bolton may well get…

I agree that Pence is a total horror who believes his personal omnipotent, omniscient god is supporting and directing all the evil he wants to do. He belongs to a group that prays daily for all remaining non-extremist Supreme Court judges to be “swept away” so racist fundamentalist fascists will fill the entire…

Trump’s world has no red lines, only what he wants, hates and fears in any given moment. That’s why he keeps firing anyone who dares to suggest to him that there are red lines he should not cross. There is no reality for him but his own, and it changes from moment to moment. Everything and everyone else are tools,…