Lifelong student with interests a mile wide and an inch deep. Autodidact. Pedant, hopefully of the slightly more pleasant sort. Sharer of things learned along the way. Lately of a creative bent.
When I’m tyrant, the first order of business will be prioritizing a sufficient response to climate change. Sharing priority will be damage control and mitigating the effects going forward through the implementation […]
Here’s this gadfly’s prescription for bipartisan compromise Take the deal, with conditions. 1) Bipartisan oversight of the bidding process, including bipartisan vetting of bidders and whatever the usual public notice for comment […]
With commentary On the one hand, I’m with Mrs. Pence on this. She took a job at a private school. A lot of people find the type of school and Mrs. Pence […]
Short version: Hi! Things R awesome. Wish U were here. Mwah! Hi! It’s your friendly neighborhood contrarian and purple prose addict here, and I just want to take a short moment of […]
Poison pill? What poison pill? Maybe I’m cynical. As I read that, if this were to become law, all an opposition party would have to do to cut funding for a “program, […]
Today’s lesson in caveat emptor Update 1/13/2019 AM: I’ve heard back from the authentic company. They reviewed the information I provided here. They noticed that the Shopify account with the fraudulent offering […]
See also: our s@*t doesn’t stink Hi! It’s your friendly neighborhood gadfly, back to swing from your nose hairs for a moment. Common Dreams has a 90% excellent article up at the […]
Just to show that I don’t only grouse and that sometimes I have a proposals for solutions that I think would work and might even appease most parties in a compromise, here’s […]
The perfect metaphor for fiscal conservatism Update: January 11, 2019 CBS reports: GoFundMe “Trump Wall” campaign to refund all donors after falling short of $1 billion goal The refund announcement came a […]
Because this is how you get Trump in 2020. The Intercept just gave us a fabulous gift, by which I mean a gift filled with unreality and myth, that illustrates what our […]
