Guessing these large parties are happening all over the Hamptons. The rich have gotten so used to the rules of law not applying to them that they think the rules of science don’t either. Read more

I always hated that Jefferson propaganda portrait. He’s an aristocrat who bashed around Europe, a profligate spender on things ordinary people wouldn’t even imagine buying like imported French wine, an intellectually lazy asshole who failed to imagine what the US could be without slavery because he couldn’t have a… Read more

While NY is one of the few states that appears to have COVID contained, yesterday I had to go to the bank to get something notarized and the bank was actually open (if nearly empty). Prior to that everything was either drive through or appointment only. Read more

We had our own city council vote in Toronto to defund the police. Sadly, it did not pass; basically no change to the budget. But, the subject has entered the conversation, which it would not have a year ago, and this should only be the beginning of this action. I’m happy to say that my city councillor voted in favour… Read more

A Kansas newspaper took issue with their governor’s mask order. Read more

Hah. I usually try to finish them, but sometimes I have to start on the next selection, so it’s a delayed follow-up. I’m forever behind somehow.

And do you go on to finish them after finding out? Or do you just move on?

Oh, I hear you on that. I basically only ever get through things when I have the pressure of the book club deadline upon me. Then I spend the days prior frantically trying to finish it, but wind up showing up to the discussion having not read the last 50-ish pages. And that’s how I find out how it ends.

Watching the full video is a must—I wish CBS had aired it in full.
Seeing the last two video thumbnails together made me think “Diggs could do a great interpretation on Douglass”, so it’s nice to see that’s going to happen.

I’m eager to read it but so far I haven’t had much luck with anything I’ve picked up, no matter how much I’m interested in the work. My brain just can’t concentrate right now. 

Pssshht. He didn’t even build Atlantic City.

One of my book clubs is potentially reading the NK Jemisin a little later this year. The synopsis sounds intriguing. Very much in the promise of Afrofuturism.

There is a glitch with comas in names. Kinja reads the name as two different users.

Seriously. White supremacist groups have been advising their members to join the military for training. The military is aware that this is happening, but really hasn’t done much about it. Read more

That explains why she’s holding the gun the correct way. Her husband’s a veteran and she probably is too.
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When this bitch got back in her car and ran, you could see a new form of terror over her eyes...”oh shit, I’m a Karen, and they got me on video” Read more

When they’re all as dumb as stumps, how does a redneck choose?