Now, that is an interesting thought. And a compellingly dystopian image from your invocation of Hieronymus Bosch

I hope everyone realizes the Rafi’s article was written from a hypothetical perspective, as of June (or thereabouts) in 2033, with Melania’s visit to the detention center being:

Ingraham ought to try grounding her argument on actual fact. The law that practically single-handedly changed the demographic “look” of the United States was he Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 (H.R. 2580; Pub.L. 89–236, 79 Stat. 911, enacted June 30, 1968), also known as the Hart–Celler Act. The text of the…

What I believe to be my earliest genuine memory dates back to a point where I was learning to talk, and I developed enough understanding of the language that what I had previously understood to be (and was was calling) “waugh” was really called “waugh-ter” - the memory is of me “correcting” my mother when she was…

Apex predator carefully appearing to ignore inattentive weaselly prey by focusing on newspaper.

Skynet, of course. What could go wrong?

So *that* explains why so many people are jumping ship . . . err, leaving.

Most of them actually did not want to be free from England, they just wanted more of a say in government. But eventually they were backed into a corner.

The following mock-up wouldn’t fly unless some rights were purchased from the bankruptcy, but imagine this at the top of the catalog:

It makes me think of an old dot matrix printer mechanism, enlarged and set up so that instead of feeding paper over the platen, it moves along the sand. It wouldn’t have to be used only on the beach - imagine setting up a sand box in just the right size and creating short-term signage. (I just had a vision of a series…

I was thinking of Eco’s William of Baskerville while reading the article.

“Abolish ICE” does NOT mean “Open Borders” like some right wing Chicken Littles assume - all it means is that a US agency that handles its duties like a brutal terrorist organization gets disbanded and its duties get transferred to an agency like the FBI that at least has a reputation for professionalism.

Since the additions of Alaska and Hawaii, the geographic center of the United States is a few miles north of Belle Fourche, South Dakota, which puts Chicago, New York and Boston in a Southeastern Quadrant, though if the writer was considering only the “lower 48" that would be in Lebanon, Kansas, just south of the…

How about the US Federal Uniform Community Knowledge Integration Nexus Guardians Act, requiring librarians, search engines, and social media to turn over complete information about their users’ activity, for governmental analysis - government analysis will be able to determine dissident thought (crimethink) and…

Bart Simpson must have a job in the West Wing. The US FART Act, indeed.

Just wait for the 5th version of Asimo - the Asimo-v 

. . . or their Stepford Wives.

The future of the Democratic Party is in young people like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

It hasn’t had any legitimacy since McConnell prevented a vote on Garland. And if the Republic still exists long enough for Democrats to take Presidency, House and Senate, in the near future, it will require serious Court Packing to provide any semblance of justice.

This is going to be very very bad. And it may not be that the nation will ever recover.