There was a commenter on a Jez piece a few days ago, whom I knew as otherwise fairly rational over my years here, morally vaporizing about the danger of a foetus being aborted “the day before it would be born as a healthy baby!!i!” The level of disinformation is huge even among the fairly well educated.

That is how anti-abortion proponents would like abortion to be framed, but it isn’t really the heart of the abortion question. The heart of the question is: can you force an American citizen to provide and/or endanger their body in service of another (a person or a thing, it doesn’t matter) if they do not consent to…

He can’t even fire someone himself, to be fair.

I can’t agree. The number of death threats regularly fielded by our sole Muslim city council member in a Yankee city to the north of yours leads me to find the claim that we’re all feeling more ‘personally responsible for one another’s safety’ unsubstantiated without further hard evidence.

It’s almost like rural Trumpers don’t understand that the frozen Marie Callender’s Pot Pies they subsist on are not manufactured and bussed out to them from cities. 99% of the rural Americans I know personally would not know what to do with a cow until they see it arrive at their local Mickey D’s served up in a little…

The Secret Service reputedly hates his ass for never following any of their safety instructions and making their job vastly harder than it needs to be.

“Nancy Pelosi is no longer Speaker of the House!”

I know it seems like about three decades already, but the impeachment stuff only came out, what, 11 days ago or so?

It wouldn’t actually surprise me if a sizeable number of Biden voters moved to Warren, and not for KMBT’s reasons (love it!) but because she has pull with normies who are scared of Bernie. 

It’s THE lesson I hope all Democratic politicians have learned going forward: you cannot base your actions on how you think the Republicans are going to respond; you cannot modulate what you do out of fear they might attack or misinterpret if you do the “wrong” thing; you cannot try to predict their response in…

I’m also loving how he’s horrifically underwater in places like Iowa (trade wars, farmers are super pissed off) and will likely not recover there.

My Senator is Susan Collins and I wrote already; am anticipating any day the arrival of her snotty intern’s reply informing me of Susan’s unmitigated delight at Trump’s many triumphs. Still, must be done, you are right.

The double, crunchy layers here is that people of a certain wealth status need praise like oxygen. They mistake the accumulation of wealth and personal objects as something they, only a smart and attractive person, could accomplish and they deserve to be “international men of mystery” being complimented by other…

That fucking ingenuous bastard. Hang ‘em high, says I.

Sources I was reading say that counsel did most of the questioning, which is excellent, you want the practicing lawyers going at it, not grandstanding politicoes much less utter airheads like Jordan.

It all gets very tedious after a number of years of it, trust me.

Ah but you forget Martin Shkreli — all it would take is a Presidential Pardon, easy peasy.

Nah, it’ll definitely be Martin Shkreli for head of the FDA, after his pardon of course.

Thanks to Wohl, Warren has now locked down the cougar vote.

I just had brunch with a 30-something Bernie supporter and she earnestly waxed on about how Warren just won’t have Bernie’s “strength” to “stand up to Congress” so she prays Warren won’t get the nom because she doesn’t know how she’ll vote at that point.