A New Word Is Needed
This has been driving me crazy. May I just say that “Nazi” is not a particularly strong pejorative word? It has roughly the same epithetic power as ...
Author: Tom
Virginia Primaries
Time for an incredibly late recap of the Virginia primaries! This didn’t get nearly as much national attention as the Georgia 6th District Special Electio...
Defining Single-Payer
I finally looked up what "single-payer healthcare" means. I’ve seen this term "single-payer" bandied around in the healthcare debate f...
Behind The Tweet: Twitter Suspends RC Cola
I saw a retweet complaining: “Twitter suspended the RC Cola twitter account over this tweet yet racists and other Rubes can post anything!” It got m...
Behind The Tweet: Constant Diet
Here’s a sequence of tweets that caused me to snort with laughter: NEW: Source close to Gianforte campaign says it's raised $100K+ online in last 24 ...
The American Health Care Act, Part Deux
There is a lot of consternation about today’s House vote on H.R. 1628, the American Health Care Act (AHCA). Back in April (I think?), Republicans pulled t...
Behind The Tweet: Crucify Him
Tonight, on a Very Special Episode of Behind The Tweet, we look into one of *my* tweets. I’m sure everyone’s heard about the Sean Spicer Incident of...
Behind the Tweet: Possibility of New Election
It’s time for another episode of Behind The Tweet. This time, another “rogue” account: “GOP worried if they press Rus-Pres ties & im...
On Sally Yates
From old drafts, c. January 31, finally remembering to post: Regarding the firing of Sally Yates as temporary Attorney General: I don’t like the ugliness ...
Piers Morgan Demonstrates Centrism In America
On Real Time with Bill Maher, Piers Morgan did an excellent job of demonstrating what it’s like to be a centrist white guy in America right now. The above...