It’s like he thought we’d forgive him for his role in nearly destroying American democracy if he did some American-ish things, like ride some hip technology while carrying a flag while a 40yo country song played in the background. Rather than, you know, removing blatant lies from FB/Insta and supporting voting rights…

I know this is a separate issue, but I’d really like to know why men like Charlie Sheen or Sean Penn or Robert Downey Junior never got a conservatorship when they were acting erratically and unhinged.

What is it about getting away with rape that makes men turn to Jesus Christ?

If he is in hell now, it's going to be pretty awkward when he runs into Saddam.

Boy, if you ever wanted an example of how the criminal “justice” system serves to protect the powerful, this is it. A prosecutor makes a basically secret, informal agreement with a powerful man to help the powerful man in a civil trial regarding the same conduct, and that secret, informal agreement then forms the…

In accordance with internet law, if a dog is mentioned by name we have to also see photographic evidence of said dog.

Once again, Jezebel misses the point:

This is the compromise infrastructure bill you’re talking about? The one that had to involve no tax increase and that got stripped of anything five Republicans weren’t comfortable with?

This.

in addition to it being morally reprehensible

Years ago, Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman found that most people would be extremely happy if they could make just $60,000 a year, with his study finding declines in happiness above that. I’m not sure (but I would guess) that number has gone up with inflation, but it certainly speaks to the fact that the vast…

One other point: unemployment isn’t a complete replacement for wages; it’s only partial.

Oh! We bought my granddaughter a similar looking set at the dollar store when she was 3 or 4. She loved it for a coupla weeks. Then we got her crayons and coloring books.

September, 2019: “Britney Spears’ ex-husband Kevin Federline has obtained a restraining order against the pop singer’s father Jamie Spears, according to Federline’s lawyer. Los Angeles divorce attorney Mark Vincent Kaplan tells NBC News the order restricts access to both Sean Preston and Jayden James and includes…

The impact is so real, even generations later. My grandmother and uncle were taken and sent to boarding school. My grandmother was beautiful, so beautiful. She was a lifelong alcoholic, my uncle a street person. He was a man of tremendous talent and dignity, known as “The Duke.” He just couldn’t stand to be inside.…

From CNN

You had one job, Covid!

Our national shame. Although Canadians like to pretend that we don’t have racial tensions like our southern counterpart (no offense slash offense), white settlers have (and continue) to commit genocide* on Indigenous peoples in Canada. We will continue to find graves at residential sites across the country because…

You’re not wrong, however the one issue I take with your comment, as solid as it is, is that boomers largely not only elected Reagan but also enshrined his bullshit to this very day, so Reagan is a symptom but not necessarily the cause.

Want someone to blame? Look at Reagan. Corporate tax rates went down, and rules were changed so that corporate bigwigs started to focus on short term profits to benefit the shareholders and maximize their bonuses. That led to playing games to keep expenditures as shown on the books down like layoffs right before the…