There have been a dozen or more National Parks pursuing Dark Sky certification for the past decade, about half of them came through this year. Grand Canyon’s night skies were already amazing, and supposedly the night lighting was improved. I got to visit Devil’s Tower a few years ago, which is often rated among the…

To be honest, I agree with the complaints. Giving money to Trump is bad judgement, but it’s not even borderline illegal. Unless he has info that these people are doing questionably illegal things, publishing their names is merely spite and is definitely provocation to people who wouldn’t normally muster the effort…

Actually, yes they are. Polls back it up. But the NRA and firearm industries who provide MONEY to the republican politicians ignore that.

Random aside: entering 30to50feralhogs.com in my browser took me to https://momsdemandaction.org .  

She missed Global Warming.

There is a pattern to be noted, though.

Now that needs to become Ecto III.

“guns don’t kill people... it’s just that loud noise they make...”

Texas hasn’t elected a democrat to statewide office in decades. Beto never had a “better” shot at Cruz, no matter how disliked Cruz was, but he damn near did it anyway - and the attention he brought to issues got four or five other democrats elected to lesser positions. His odds against Cornyn were slim because Cornyn …

Hey, Oklahoma: If you heard a really loud whooshing sound recently, that was the point flying by every elected official in Texas.

They say he fell down, but it seems pretty likely he was patting himself on the back.

A few hours ago, the NYT published an interview with Brennan, where he is advocating that 8chan should be shut down.

My guess is that he planned to use the interview to spout the old ‘If he’s white, he was a lone wolf, not a terrorist’ line, but the internet already cut him off by already ridiculing that meme again today. So fell back on a really old BS justification.

Shooter drove there from North Dallas, a nine hour drive from Beto’s district.

Rewriting a little bit of history in order to set a precedent.

Actually, with modern technology, a front license plate gives the police far more than twice the odds of identifying a license plate with a history. How many cars do you follow as opposed to how many cars you pass which are moving in the opposite direction?

Great.  Now it’s a redneck arms race.

He did some amazing work. That doesn’t mean he shouldn’t have been punched in the face occasionally. You should have to earn being an asshole.

Yet, without the judicial filibuster, what are the Democrats capable of doing right now, other than sit on their hands?

I remember really hoping that the internet would be a gold mine for finding old B&W movies that never showed up on TV any more. It ain’t that. I find more old films on Turner Classic Films than anywhere on the internet, and even so, they’re almost all films I’ve known about for decades instead of any of the…