My two cents and $5 might get you a value meal somewhere. I like a little historical perspective. It all started when this guy did all these things, but in keeping with […]
Shutdown: some historical perspective
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.
Move over, Florida Man. GOP Rep has no spine, stands for MLK photo-op
GOP Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart is worse than a coward According to the Naples Daily News: “I’m not adding fuel to the fire,” Diaz-Balart said in an interview with Naples Daily News reporters. […]
Who’s the coolest monkey in the jungle?
Ironically, nobody outraged at H&M Children and monkeys go together like peanuts and butter. Search for monkey toddler costume on Google Images and you’ll get results rather like these. Associating monkeys and […]
Forget influence peddling, now we have influence wholesale purchasing
Comcast and other heavy hitters blatantly buying employee political pressure Hypothetically: Let’s just say a bunch of corporations wanted the Party A guy (I’m right/wrong either way with GOP/Dem, so Party A […]
Flat Earthers at the end of the world
Flat Earthers are a microcosm of so many things. It had to happen eventually. I was bound to visit the Flat Earth Society’s website. I just had to. I’m filled with derision […]
We must be okay with Harvey Weinstein
Or, at the very least, we’re much more okay with him than we want to confess. Were this to happen on the Republican/right wing side of the coin, we’d be demanding clear […]
Your freedom of speech is safe with Facebook
Facebook remains clueless about everything except their dominant mission: make Mark Zuckerberg richer. The other day, I was reminded of Richard Spencer’s existence. Now that he’s on the radar and media of […]
Omphaloskeptigram
I’ll mock and deride caricatures masquerading as people regardless which side they’re on, but I still have your back. “Donald Trump and Insane Clown Posse tell the Deplorables and Juggalos, respectively, that […]
Dear World: Here’s the thing about our guns
ThinkProgress ran a piece on the world’s media wondering about our guns Dear World: It’s not hard to understand. Tragic, maybe, YMMV, but not hard to understand. We’d just finished telling King […]
The Emperor’s new wall
DHS Seeks Designs for ‘See-Through’ Section of Trump’s Wall Okay, okay. I’ve got an idea. It’s not actually there. You just make people think it’s there. Signs every 50 feet or so […]
