Huck Finn and Harper Lee in the crosshairs Fox reports (yeah, yeah, I know): Minnesota school district removes To Kill a Mockingbird, Huckleberry Finn from required reading due to n-word. “It’s wrong. There […]
N-bombs in American cultural treasures
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.
New study appeals to bias, probably still right?
I’m almost embarrassed for The Guardian for pushing this story Fake news sharing in US is a rightwing thing, says study “Low-quality, extremist, sensationalist and conspiratorial news published in the US was […]
Let’s talk, America: Why are we hearing about this #deepstate now? Hint: thank the Russkies
And thank the beleaguered supporters of the Trump administration In today’s episode, your friendly gadfly talks about why this is even a thing now. Spoiler: I don’t know why we should thank […]
Let’s talk, America: have your heard about Trump’s nomination of Krebs?
Disarray at DHS seems to be the new normal Remember that weird media site I stumbled into, Executive Mosaic? They report that Krebs “served as director of cybersecurity policy within Microsoft‘s U.S. government affairs […]
Let’s talk, America…and let’s start with the so-called Deep State, because why not?
But first, a word from our sponsor Hi. You might know me from such…no. No, you wouldn’t. I’m nobody. I’m just some rando on the internet. Or maybe I’m a Dem apparatchik. […]
Oppo research in the era of Nunes
There must be something in the water supply. The Nunes memo is a done deal, out on the intertubes for everyone to speculate about. It should be crystal clear to all but […]
What a weird way to rhapsodize about Billy Graham
I know I come across as a ginormous butthole sometimes when religion is the issue. I can’t really make excuses. There’s reasons, but no excuses. My reasons go back to the early […]
SOTU: The Shit vs. Shinola Test
The Shit vs. Shinola Test is for the American people. Given their widespread and non-partisan inability to tell the one from the other, that’s an F. PolitiFact shared this infographic on Facebook […]
Short fiction: Taxonomy
“Good morning, everyone. I’m glad you could join us today. Let’s just go ahead and dive right in, shall we. Rich and Jamie have a flight back to Europa to catch when […]
Anti-abomination platform political capital goldmine for abominations
Whatever can be said for or against previous administrations, it is hard to contemplate the current administration under Trump without also considering the issue of…sexual immorality, of abomination. We’ve got a president […]
