I know it’s hard to maintain momentum over weeks, let alone months or years, but I was really disheartened that most of the progressive GOTV and anti Voter Suppression initiatives didn’t really get kicked off properly until summer. Sad to say that the Parkland kids and their efforts probably got more people to the…

If this were somebody’s lawyer, this would be legal malpractice...what’s the recourse when it’s a judge? I’m assuming he could get disbarred over something like this, but maybe not?  If I were a defense lawyer, I’d be looking for a way to parlay this display of insanity into some sort of grounds for appeal or vacation…

My biggest gripe about these interactions is whenever something obviously looking and smelling like horseshit dribbles from Trump (or Sanders’ etc.) mouths, the whole rest of the assembled press corps just...ignores it and clamors for their own chance to ask a question. These guys all joined the same union, they came…

When a candidate within single digit percentages concedes before the counts are done, it really does all those voters a terrible disservice, because most states simply stop counting once the race is officially called.

On top of what others have said, I live in Chicago, and my ballot had two full pages of currently-sitting judges who’s retention is being decided.  There were also referenda regarding a city minimum wage, whether or not to place a term limit on the office of Mayor and how to spend tax proceeds from the eventual…

Let’s flash back to the year 2000 in the state of Florida and re-acquaint ourselves with the term “chad” in the context of paper ballots.  Now see Florida today re: their issue with “signature match” for mail-in ballots.  Plenty can, and does, still go wrong with paper.

Absolutely agreed. I can access my super secret private healthcare and financial records fully online. I can buy and sell major securities and commodities in volumes enough to alter financial markets via web or phone interface. I can request copies of my birth certificate, student transcripts or renew my driver’s…

He’s awfully ghoulish-looking already, so what the hell does his portrait in the attic look like, you know, the version of him without all the life extension treatments?

And this is just what the Intercept was able to accidentally stumble across. Imagine what options are available to you if you’ve got Peter Thiel-level connections within Facebook’s C-Suite, and money is no object. Oh, and they might not be calling this target demo “white genocide conspiracists” or whatever…

Gawd, I hope THEY do another “boycott” - you know, where they make an effort to go in to several different locations and order drinks with special names on the cup like “JESUS” and “CHRISTIAN” and “LAMB OF GOD” etc.  That’ll teach ‘em to pull this “holiday cup” nonsense for the 21st year in a row, I tell you what!

I dunno, around me the ‘Bucks is still cheaper, ounce for ounce than the Dunkin’, plus I don’t have to drink outta styrofoam, but to each his own, I guess.

But they got coverage, so that’s “Mission Accomplished” on a 40ft banner flapping in the breeze behind them, right?!?

“Ally” isn’t exactly new or some fluff buzzword...It’s pretty spot-on and has been used in this context for quite some time.  Like the Mattachines and PFLAG and Lambda Legal old, and I’m pretty sure it was co-opted from the greater civil rights movement even then.

Well, as an ally, you’re either helping me in some form or another, or you better stay out of my fucking way. The quote is awkward on the street, but in the context of TwitchCon - you know, on a panel of content creators being asked how to help, it’s about as specific as you could ask for - you pay us, you work for us…

OOoooh! I have the perfect stuff to try this with. It’s a brand called Farmhouse Culture - they have a couple different varieties of kraut, including kimchi, as well as fermented beets and fermented carrots with ginger. They’re fresh - so in the refrigerated section, and not only pretty damn delicious, but also…

Yelling “Fire!” when attacked as a way to summon help does work, but maybe only in specific scenarios. It was a finding of one of the numerous experiments conducted after the Kitty Genovese murder in NYC where dozens of neighbors heard or saw the attack, but didn’t intervene or call police. The proposed mechanism of…

Babies killin’ babies.

The star I gave you is really hard to see through all that haze and gloom.

My maternal grandmother turned 90 a few months ago. She had 8 kids. I get an icky feeling knowing that she has outlived two of them (didn’t make it to 40) and her husband (The Cancer) and three of the surviving ones teeter on the brink with serious health issues as I write this. We joke that she might just outlive all…

But I think the infant mortality rate has been rising a bit over the last few years...and we’re like 30-something in world ranking.  So we’re not even getting that part right.