Everything is wrong with this story I’m not even sure who the most stupid party is in this story. NBC reports (if you can call it that): Supreme Court sends back appeal […]
Prayer, or even fake prayer, is a magic get out of jail free card
Frank Balsinger
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.
Meet your newest die-hard I’m so blue it hurts Democrat
Sometimes even I can’t tell when I’m writing satire I do napkin math. I like sloppy numbers. I especially like sloppy big numbers, where the margin of error could be in the […]
Border proposal: a high-speed commuter rail line
It’s not enough to complain and resist. We need forward-thinking ideas. I had an idea at work earlier. Good or bad, at least it’s an idea, something Democratic leadership seems to be […]
Starfish! Hero of the Realm!
We need a new kind of hero today, one in keeping with the spirit of the times, a hero with today’s very best virtues. The greatest virtues. Heroic virtues like you’ve never […]
A confession, a call to ministry, and you ain’t gonna like it
This jeremiad’s for you, babe I don’t want to be arrogant enough to assume that anyone is familiar with my writing. A few are, and I love you folks for that, but […]
SS Huckabee, the horse she rode in on, and let’s not stop there
If you cannot see that Trump has more in common, character-wise, with Biff Tannen than not, you’re not trying. That’s what makes everyone else think you’re really, simply just lying to them. […]
Police state media: does CBS know what “misdemeanor” means?
At the time Rose was executed in the street by unaccountable violent police state power, the crime in which he was in commission was the crime of…fleeing. He was fleeing. I really […]
Down the rabbit hole, thanks to NBC
This probably isn’t the best way to counter claims of #fakenews Heads up, Dear Reader. This is one of my weird process posts. If that’s your thing, won’t you join me as […]
Tearing families apart is just another day in paradise
Once again, I find myself out of step on the hot-button issue of the day #hostile Tearing families apart at the border? I’m out of step with this administration’s policies in that […]
The bigoted baker didn’t win any more than Trump did
They are what happens when [Default] takes top spot when someone else loses I’ve been beating this drum since news of the ruling and dropping strongly worded corrections in every media comments […]
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