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♪ I smiled cos I loved you bothSo, I put the apron onI put the apron on ♪— The Once and Future Wesley Stace Think British folk rockers with a deep catalog of paeans to proletarians, and the brain brings … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Belabors a Point About Working It Out
I’m not in the mood for fun and games today, sorry. The Texas GOP and the GOP run Supreme Court have me in a 3 day rage streak. I can’t even talk to Wifebaby about it, because she can’t deal … Continue reading The Friday Politics Thread is $*&!#@^ Angry
Mornin’ Politocadoes! I say ‘Mornin”, but it’s actually the afternoon and I am posting in the past. Internet is out in my place and I am currently typing this up elsewhere and setting it up in advance. So that does … Continue reading The Thursday Politics Thread Is Logged Off
The biggest frustration for commonsense people who believe in, and follow the science has always been the propagandists intent on distorting information in order to amplify wariness of a political party that has stopped centering White privilege decades ago, the … Continue reading The Wednesday Politics Thread
So here I am, typing at 5am. I will truly be bringing the news from today instead of yesterday evening. Or you know, 7:45am my time when I panic and remember I haven’t written anything yet. First up! We have … Continue reading Tuesday’s Politics thread can’t sleep
The big difference between this pandemic and the one that killed 50 million people As Nancy Bristow wrote in her 2012 book, which cited Ravenel’s appraisal, “American Pandemic: The Lost Worlds of the 1918 Influenza Epidemic,” the pandemic that would … Continue reading The Monday Politics Thread is Sponsored by Vaccine Science, not Horse Dewormer
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch— Nothing starts as a cliche Marvel to think “What if the C.S.A. won the U.S. Civil War?” has topped the sub-subgenre of alternate … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Threads Speculates of Late
Good morning Politicadoes and Happy Friday. It’s been a bad week both here and abroad so I’ll just cut to the RoRo anecdote. Last weekend Wifebaby went to a party that RoRo and I were not invited to, so we … Continue reading The Friday Politics thread asks qu’est-ce que c’est?
Mornin’ Politocadoes! The January 6th Select Committee has requested a massive tranche of documents related to the events leading up to and concerning the Insurrection that took place on January 6th. The scope of the request is broad with requests … Continue reading The Thursday Politics Thread Demands Some Records
“It was many, many years ago, when we would visit the little town of Troy, visit Montgomery, visit Tuskegee, visit Birmingham, I saw those signs that said: White Men / Colored Men White Women / Colored Women White waiting / … Continue reading Wednesday Politics Thread Gets In Good Trouble
So here’s some stuff to talk about (like y’all need suggestions). Well this is some bullsh*t. Byeeeeeeee. You left your dog behind, and he’s better off. So are the people of New York. I know we already talked about this … Continue reading Tuesday’s Politics thread has a lot going on right now.
Staunch atheists show higher morals than the proudly pious, from the pandemic to climate change When it comes to the most pressing moral issues of the day, hard-core secularists exhibit much more empathy Salon Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick blames … Continue reading The Monday Politics Thread Realized Six Hours Late That It Was Untitled
♪ It’s only human to want to inherit every feeling you’ve gotAnd like it or not, let’s take it to the Nth degreeHere we goGive us ten bucks and a head startHere’s where we goThe puzzle’s pulling apartAnd here’s the … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Relates
Knock yourselves out people. This week in RoRo: We went on a long weekend vacation last weekend, and our room had a little deck overlooking a cornhole game, and RoRo started doing Play-By-Play really loudly. “OOOH, the Daddy missed!” “Oh … Continue reading The Green Badge of the Friday Politics Thread
Mornin’ Politocadoes! In addition to the other Horsemen of the Apocalypse riding around, Plague, War, Death, we also appear to have harbingers of Famine in droughts throughout the western United States. Droughts in California have been worsened by overpumping, leaving … Continue reading The Thursday Politics Thread Should Not Become Addicted To Water
The weirdest thing I learned from my father is how to redirect fear and give it meaning. When we lived in the Middle East, there were days where the bombings of our cities never relented and it felt as if … Continue reading The Wednesday Politics Thread
It’s been a helluva weekend. A good friend of mine from college is a professor at the US Naval Academy. He’s lost several students in Afghanistan and several more have come home severely injured. It’s been really hard on him. … Continue reading Tuesday’s Political thread
Death toll of powerful earthquake in Haiti soars to 1,297 The death toll from a 7.2-magnitude earthquake in Haiti climbed to 1,297 on Sunday, a day after the powerful temblor turned thousands of structures into rubble and set off franctic … Continue reading The Monday Politics Thread Saw Some Shooting Stars
♫ I must walk five miles a dayBut when I sit downThis is what they saySay, I gotta move onGotta move onGot no home, but I gotta move along ♫— The Best ‘80s Band From Atlanta, Not Athens or Marietta … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Proposes a Solution
It is just awful outside these last few days. Like walking into a wall of warm soup. Remember a month ago when you all saw those pictures of the NY subway system after a downpour? Well, if you went down … Continue reading The Intolerable Mugginess of the Friday Politics Thread
Mornin’ Politocadoes! The MyPillow Guy, the 21st century’s answer to Henry Ford, held a Cyber Symposium to prove that the 2020 election was a fraud. It did not go well. From the start, the event was plagued with tech issues, … Continue reading The Thursday Politics Thread Knows All About The Cyber
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