Month: December 2016

I have long balked at paying exorbitant prices for high-priced “gourmet” hamburgers and “gourmet” pizza. I have similar feelings about high-priced tacos, but never considered that the latter feelings are grounded in racism: Urbanites may have the advantage of living in places where regional cuisines from far-flung countries are readily available, but we need to collectively…

So says Newsweek‘s real “Madam President” about so-called “fake news.” Hillary Clinton on Thursday decried the spread of fake news online, calling it an “epidemic” that Congress should take action against. “The epidemic of malicious fake news and false propaganda that flooded social media over the past year — it’s now clear the so-called fake…

Hard to believe it, but today is the 75th Anniversary of that dastardly deed. There are only a hundred or so survivors of the Pearl Harbor attack still alive, and while I am of course glad to see they are being remembered, the attack itself must never be forgotten, as it is a lesson on preparedness.

I’ve been pretty quiet about Trump, but if this is true — if he is encouraging the murder of drug addicts — then the man is worse than I imagined possible. I respect disagreements over policy positions, but encouraging outright murder of people for having what is a medical problem crosses a line in a…

About 19 minutes He predicts the fall of the Democrats to the Greens and the further rise of the Libertarians.

Clearly, the ranting woman in this widely circulated video is nuts. But look at the two people closely. What does race have to do with it? The irony, of course, is that while the nutcase passenger who is yelling at the Assyrian woman seems to have assumed she was a Muslim, Assyrians are Christian, and the…

Donald Trump has already taken office. With the Carrier deal and now Ford among many who want to start dealing with Trump, the Obama Presidency is over. A month and three weeks prematurely. I don’t recall ever seeing anything like it.

HotGas changed its name to Sparta Report. In honor of the name change I thought this might be amusing.

Space is full of something. H/T p.g.sharrow

This guy forced me. So here it is.     A Gay CEO, an Irish Catholic, and the Orange man walk into a San Francisco bar. The Gay CEO says, “I’ll have a Marley* “. The Irish Catholic says, “That is a sin”. The Orange man says, “I’ll have a water”. The Irish Catholic says,…

About 1 minute The rally pictured was held on 29 October 2015 in Reno/Sparks, Nevada. With all the Prohibitionists he has been nominating ( Jeff Sessions and Tom Price among them ), it is good to know that Peter Thiel is one of his closest advisors. And just so you get the right idea about…

“The more obvious the failure becomes, the more shamelessly they [the prohibitionists] exhibit their genuine motives. In plain words, what moves them is the psychological aberration called sadism. They lust to inflict inconvenience, discomfort, and whenever possible, disgrace upon the persons they hate — which is to say, upon everyone who is free from their…