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Meet the Looters

by kara on June 10, 2020

PATAGONIA PATTY

So, Americans are just being absolutely brutalized everywhere as though by an invading enemy force. The police have escalated the situation at every opportunity. They aren’t just putting the smackdown on “thugs.” They’re hitting reporters with pepper balls on live TV and firing tear gas at reporters and photographers at point blank range.There have been a few, […]

Dear Everyone Who Isn’t A Lunatic:

by kara on August 11, 2019

At this moment, someone you know personally, or are related to, is expressing of victorious exultation, on Facebook or over pasta at The Olive Garden, because they truly believe in their heart that Donald Trump has singlehandedly broken the back of a cabal of pizza parlor pedophiles who kidnap children and put them into rockets […]

On Civility

by kara on July 17, 2019

You might think that “condemning racism” would be a fairly straightforward thing, at least if you recently awoke from a long coma. But when the House of Representatives passed a resolution largely along party lines, 240 to 187, with four Republicans and ex-R Justin Amash voting for the resolution, things quickly descended into fracas and donnybrook. […]

Come on, man.

by kara on July 16, 2019

Die on your feet or live on your knees. When a killer asteroid is hurtling towards earth, concern and sternly worded letters aren’t going to help. Nor are Tweets or tears. As President Obama used to say at times like this, “Come on, man”. Yes, we all know that this Senate isn’t going to impeach […]

I was a bicentennial kid, growing up in the 1970’s, naively embracing all things Olde and patriotic. I chose ridiculously nerdy bicentennial iron-ons for my shirts, and was obsessed Ben Franklin was my hero. We saw a stage production of “1776” at the bicentennial celebration in Philadelphia where I grew up, and became obsessed with […]

by kara on May 29, 2019

  The man who made his career being anti-establishment and anti-government is now…. defending the Trump administration.And telling us that we are fools not to trust our own government. Do we need more proof it is now a holy owned subsidiary of the Kremlin? I’ve been saying for a long time, I sincerely believe GG has […]

by kara on May 1, 2019

“The summary letter the Department sent to Congress and released to the public late in the afternoon of March 24 did not fully capture the context, nature, and substance of this office’s work and conclusions,” Mueller wrote. “There is now public confusion about critical aspects of the results of our investigation. This threatens to undermine […]

  A little reminder to Bill Barr about what happens to some AGs who are apparently unaware of the law William Barr is supposed to be at the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, and then the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday. But he says he just may have to skip, because the Democrats have suggested […]