Monthly Archives: January 2023

Today I guess we’ll see the release of a tape that will show the brutal beating of motorist Tyre Nichols in Memphis after a traffic stop. But just like there was a twist in the two California mass shootings — … Continue reading →

Over the last few days there were two massacres in California. (“At least 18 dead in 3 days after mass shootings in California devastate 2 communities.”) One of them was in two different locations, and that one seemed to be … Continue reading →

So now they’ve found classified documents at Mike Pence’s house. Oh boy. Can’t wait until they find classified documents at Barack Obama’s house. This whole shitstorm seems to be pointing to something that some commentators have been suggesting for quite … Continue reading →

David Crosby died yesterday, and it left me with somewhat complicated feelings. Crosby was, of course, one of the founders of the Byrds, and then subsequently one of the founders of Crosby, Stills & Nash (later Crosby, Stills, Nash & … Continue reading →

The news that there were classified documents found from Joe Biden’s days as Vice President in locations where they weren’t supposed to be sets up a false equivalence between Biden and Trump. The two cases are not at all the … Continue reading →

There’s been a story in the news this week about how Republican lawmakers on Tuesday gave their approval to a new House subcommittee designed to probe the “weaponization” of the federal government. Come again? Does anybody in the Repuglican party … Continue reading →

Today is, of course, the two-year anniversary of the January 6th insurrection. That it coincides with the 4th day of the chaotic fight over the Speakership is, perhaps, no small irony. On the day after the January 6th insurrection, Kevin … Continue reading →

The chaos previously predicted with respect to the election of a new House Speaker has turned out to be crazier and more divisive than had even been predicted. Oh boy! As is by now well known, McCarthy could not afford … Continue reading →

As is pretty well known by now, Kevin McCarthy is desperate to become Speaker of the House. To do that he needs to win the votes of at least 218 of the 435 members, and given that he only has … Continue reading →

As we get ready for 2023, I don’t think anybody out there is saying, yeah, let’s do it, let’s get going! I think just about everybody is tiptoeing into 2023, after the last couple of years, just worrying about how … Continue reading →