LDAHL
Senior Member

You keep saying that, but just because I don’t buy into your overwrought rhetoric doesn’t mean I’m defending the man.

I think there are a number of points that can be made here. I think the headline of the story says something about media bias. If this guy had...

Oh, I would certainly agree that Trump is a lying buffoon completely untethered to any discernible code of honor. But I find the protean politics of...

I annoyed the hell out of my kid dadsplaining all the Poe tropes and references while we watched “The Fall of the House of Usher”.

Yeah. Don’t they realize he’ll destroy democracy forever like he did last time?

https://www.newsweek.com/reporter-hit-shrapnel-shooting-range-lucas-kunce-1973634 I see we’ve had another democrat-with-a-gun story in Missouri....

“We thank the people who drove the previous inhabitants off this land in order that our ancestors could take it for themselves later.” Sort of...

Trump is constantly threatening, prevaricating and glowering. But what really freaks out his opposition is when he seems to be having fun.

Speaking of acceptable candidates, I saw my first Chase Oliver campaign ad on YouTube. First one I’ve seen this cycle that didn’t make me want to...

Is Elon Musk the new designated supervillain? Are the Koch brothers on sabbatical? Don’t these people realize the only acceptable way to...

“The difference between fiction and non-fiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable”, or so Mark Twain said. I think a healthy diet...

That’s up to the courts to decide.

He couldn’t figure out where the arrows go. Should have bought American.

I hear 51 former intelligence officials signed a letter saying the First Amendment has all the hallmarks of a Russian disinformation operation.

I guess a private organization can impose any sort of censorship the market will bear. My problem is when government sets itself up as the...

Looks like the usual suspects have chosen to get indignant over it. MSNBC calling it illogical. The New York Times informing us that that franchise...

Give my regards to the Sinaloa Cartel.

I think you’re right. Which is why I think identity politics is so inane. Assigning attitudes, interests or beliefs based on superficial traits like...

In my town, it’s sort of patchy. Some neighborhoods are completely bare. Others sprout signs like mushrooms after a rain. I get the feeling they...

It is stupidly reductive to vote against a candidate because they are a woman. It is equally stupidly reductive to vote for a candidate because they...

We’re thinking alike today. I thought the same thing at first too. Maybe some provocateur’s idea of an October Surprise. It put me in mind of...

I had that same thought. What good would it have done to cross the border into Italy for a few days after the Anschluss?

Wasn’t it Omar Bradley who said “Amateurs talk strategy, professionals talk logistics”?

I’m voting in person. I like the ritual. While my choices at the top of the ballot are limited to a bag of wind, an empty suit and some hopeless...

I think the VP debate is a good example of how difficult regulating “the truth” can be. Margaret Brennan inserts herself into the debate by attacking...

I heard the VP debate described as “shockingly polite and substantive”.

Not five bomb threats. Five actual bombings. https://time.com/4501670/bombings-of-america-burrough/ It’s one reason I have trouble taking all...

Not perfect. All those schools and hospitals named after saints say something about our prior treatment of Catholics, for instance. And our recent...

Nationalist parties have been on the upswing in much of Europe. I’m not entirely sure of all the reasons. Maybe a reaction to mass immigration. Maybe...

https://nypost.com/2024/09/20/us-news/jill-biden-leads-one-of-husbands-last-cabinet-meetings-before-hosting-rose-garden-party-without-him/

You make a good point. Most of the real action in government occurs down ballot. Does it really matter, for instance, that Jill Biden is doing so...

I doubt anyone looking at his burnt out family business would call it a “random protest” rather than a riot. To my mind, any riot is an attack on...

Way to put lipstick on the pig, Alissa! That’s what marketing is all about.

As riots go, I like that there were hundreds of arrests and convictions. We didn’t see the like for the deadly riots that preceded it. Nor did we...

I rest my case.

If elevating your voice is merely annoying people in an attempt to advance your cause, I think you’re well within your rights. You’d certainly be in...

I think that too often we say “evil” when what we really mean is “stupid”. Not that stupidity is necessarily less destructive, but it’s so much...

Despite what Kamala Harris says, US forces have been actively engaged in this vicious proxy war between Israel and Iran for some time.

I think if our climate issues are resolved it will be by clever people trying to make a buck rather than spoiled children mistaking tantrums for...