Might as well start with a laugh, or as close as we can get to one. RJ Matson steps back from attempting to inspire horror over the lack of ethics on the Supreme Court, and the Chief Justice’s refusal to take it seriously. Maybe mockery is more effective than head-on criticism. It has been said […]
Ed Hall points out the need to not look away. I appreciate, on one hand, the people who said of the CNN Town Hall that they had to turn it off, but I hope that meant they were going to make sure to vote and to speak up even in groups that don’t echo their […]
To set the mood somewhat gently, an announcement: I compiled this array back when the Biden/Ice Cream meme first surfaced as a way of pointing out how foolish and unhistoric it was. In fact, I went back and documented that all but three presidents enjoyed ice cream, and those three may have liked it, too. […]
Bruce MacKinnon got the most out of the Space X launch. For all the horse laughs at Musk’s expense, he had only predicted a 50% chance of success and some people who seem to know about this stuff agree with him that it was a necessary way to learn about what works and what doesn’t […]
Bruce MacKinnon’s cartoon would be funny if the guy in it were some obscure goofball prattling away about his own personal, paranoid fantasies in the corner of a neighborhood tavern at three in the afternoon. It’s not nearly so funny when the goofball is a former President of the United States with a significant following […]
Martyn Turner provides a good starting point by celebrating the fact that we’ve long since lost track of the starting point and it’s all ups and downs now. Turner is Irish, hence the snakes. The game we Yanks call “Chutes and Ladders” is “Snakes and Ladders” elsewhere because of its Indian origins, but it’s played […]