We don’t vote for president. We vote for electors who’ve said (promised?) to cast THEIR vote for a specific presidential candidate in December. Federal law mainly pertains to the electoral college part of the election, and the Federal Election Commission and Commission on Presidential Debates actually have very little…

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My pal Mr. Observation Man addressed the Canada Goose hubbub a while back...as peeps were getting relieved of their parkas at gunpoint here in The City of Big Shoulders.  In this economy, I can think of alot of better ways to spend a grand, and still stay toasty warm when the next polar vortex inevitably descends.

My pal Mr. Observation Man addressed the Canada Goose hubbub a while back...as peeps were getting relieved of their…

Not for nothing:  one of the CARES Act provisions allows for shopping the marketplace plans if your job-provided healthcare was lost or changed due to COVID, regardless of the open enrollment window.

I’ll go out on a limb and posit that vaccine work did not start in the US the same time as the UK, and I’m also gonna venture that the UK vaccine efforts weren’t encumbered or outright obstructed by imbeciles in government like they were/are here in the US, or at least not to the same extent.  Constant blabber about…

Is the (guarded) statement that the side effects “might be a little more severe” based on anything in particular? Is it just that there are two doses, so potentially double the chance for showing a side effect, any side effect? Or has info been released as to what sort of adjuvants, buffers and/or preservatives to…

Before I clicked the headline, I *KNEW* the gist and tone of the inevitable quote from the police union rep, and I was not disappointed.

I think (hope) an argument could be made that the “except in cases of impeachment” part of the clause should be interpreted to mean that if the President has been impeached, then issuing pardons is no longer within his power. That’s a longshot, I know, particularly given the current complexion of the Supremes, but I’m…

If Stacey Abrams’ Fair Fight Action has stayed on track, based on reported numbers, she’ll have added another 30,000 new registered voters to the rolls by December (presumably mostly Democrats).

Showing up at the wrong address kinda invalidates the whole police defense, doesn’t it? No warrant and no probable cause to be there in the first place, so the entry and any commands (allegedly) issued would all be unlawful.  Also, is it normal for officers conducting a raid to have no prior knowledge or familiarity…

Isn’t it over-the-top tone-deaf, even for #45's administration, to show a distribution center in the heat of the pandemic just stocked to the rafters with inventory? Like, shouldn’t a good distributor be sitting on a mostly-empty warehouse (setting aside the notion that they also shouldn’t have the time to stage a…

The Pharma giants’ own financials show they spend way more on marketing/advertising, lobbying/campaign contributions and executive compensation and benefits packages, than they ever would on “upfront R&D” yet the myth persists, mainly because industry shills parrot it as PR bullet point A1 every chance they get, plus…

It’s also a way to account for a weapon that later coincidentally winds up being found in the possession of a suspect later. The Good ‘Ole Boys Network has to get their planted evidence from *somewhere* after all.

Thank you! I couldn’t recall the difference between the two therapies and didn’t feel like mining my history to find the specific information again. The riskier drug also happens to be more profitable and guess which way Gilead decided to go? How people are still surprised by this boggles the mind...the same story…

The Poseidon Adventure - <spoiler alert> the ship flips after the ball drops and any year/decade that begins with Shelly Winters, Ernest Borgnine and Gene Hackman sharing the screen together can’t be all that bad.

I, for one, welcome our robotic orgasm-tracking-and-optimizing overlords.

The ideas that Truvada for PreP is 99% effective when taken as directed and that Truvada for PreP can have serious side effects are not mutually exclusive, and both seem to be true. The makers of Truvada have spared no expense marketing their drug, in some cases, dressed up as “public awareness” and “outreach” even…

I haven’t an iota of sympathy for Harry and Meghan.  Without the media, the Windsors would have basically zero relevance (at least as much as any other wealthy family).  They have a symbiotic relationship with the media, particularly the “tabloid press” in its British form, where the press gets all this great content…

911 systems are supposed to be location-based, but swatters seem to be able to get around that by calling a non-emergency number (like the police department switchboard) and insisting on being transferred to a dispatcher.  That M.O. alone should be a red flag, since most people since the 1980's (at least in the U.S.)…

I think I’m one of those “I don’t want kids - so where’s my PTO?” people. It chafes against my progressive sensibilities, but I look at pregnancy as an elective medical procedure - if the leave would come at an inconvenient time professionally, or make it difficult to hold on to a position of leadership or a recent or…