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A science writer is not a scientist, so I will take her horrible pessimism as science fiction.

and they just don’t know it yet.   There is still plenty of time for Congressional candidates to file for the fall election.   Maybe the Greens and the Libertarians can sweep the two Corruption parties out and start anew.

Even a retired cynical Greek deity can hope, can’t he?

A piece of their Big Sky came falling down.

for our “free and fair” election in November.

Let’s call the whole thing off.

What it will be is a sad avoidance of any of the problems of working Americans.

grab the money.

The only way to stamp out this behavior is to stamp out the rich.  A 95% top tax rate, starting at 10 times the minimum wage is a start.  Then, for good measure, you add an asset tax designed to erode large fortunes (say, anything over $10 million).

I’ll bet that if we had such a tax structure, no one would have to worry about s…[Read more]

That would be the same South Carolina that started the Civil War.

• If you own a motor vehicle and feed it more than 10 gallons a month, you are wealthy.
• If most of your food comes from more than 30 miles away, you are wealthy.
• If most of what you buy during the week says ‘Made in China’, you are wealthy.

Of course, if you live in a house you built with your own two hands, from locally made materials, you…[Read more]

Massachusetts is not one of these right-to-get-fired states, so her lawyer should be able to squeeze a few dollars out of the regents of the university.

The only thing progressive about Biden is his Alzheimer’s, and he’ll probably need as many naps as Reagan.

despite the best attempts of liberal pundits to focus attention on the disgraced financier’s relationship with President Donald Trump instead.

Russians paying bounties in Afghanistan.

And if the rich and powerful are held to account for their sexual proclivities, they will still be able to exploit the working class by denying them a living w…[Read more]

Rearrange the letters, you get Bluenomatterwho.

When it was found out he was playing Hyde-the-salami?

Can’t we just forget about him and relinquish him to a Trivial Pursuit card?

There’s not gonna be a “second wave’, cuz everybody’s getting infected in the first.

That’s a good clue.  Not coral then.   Not clam shells.   How about plastic debris from the Big Pacific Vortex?

Quite some trick, since they are extinct.

Shouldn’t they require earplugs at a Trump rally?

You tell people they have to wear masks, and it’s only a short step until all ugly people have to wear pillowcases.

I don’t see as many data points in the shithole countries.   Maybe the shithole has moved elsewhere?

Some factory in a third world country is churning out this stuff by the buckets.  In that country, you can buy the shit over-the-counter for the price of a nice lunch.  But to get it in the United States, in its copyrighted and patent protected packaging, that will run you a few thousand.