I know that there are much more important outrages out there; I have a stack of saved URLs of blood-boilers for blog use. But for some reason here’s what gets my goat today. The US Open golf tournament will conclude today in a final round of play at the L.A. Country Club. As it happens, …
A Trump Lagniappe
Nothing like discovering you’ve been indicted on 31 37* counts of various national security law violations (including, apparently, sharing military secrets with any car dealer from Grosse Pointe willing to cough up the Bedminster entry fee**) and then losing two of your top lawyers–the ones who just took the “Yup. He’s going to be indicted” meeting …
Popcorn Futures Spike…
Yesterday, Rep. George Santos (R-Fantasy Island) announced through his mouthpiece that he’d rather go to jail than reveal those who cosigned his bail: Murray signaled that his client may resort to drastic measures to keep them from facing the public light. “My client would rather surrender to pretrial detainment than subject these suretors to what …
Who Can’t Find Their Pants Now?
We’ve all noted the ongoing GOP and Co. drumbeat on Joe Biden’s alleged mental decline/incapacity. C.f. the loathsome Nancy Mace declaring that in the debt limit farrago “Republicans got outsmarted by a President who can’t find his pants.” This is an obvious dog whistle, (“Be very afraid of the president-in-waiting”) and, as with every GOP/fascist …
Long Island Man Faces Time In The Barrel
This has not been a slow news day: US Representative George Santos, who faced outrage and mockery over a litany of fabrications about his heritage, education and professional pedigree, has been charged with federal criminal offenses, two people familiar with the matter told The Associated Press. I hear that Barely Speaker McCarthy has walked back his …
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What’s Wrong With This Lede? What’s Wrong With These People?
Here’s the first paragraph from the top story on The Washington Post right now. A man using an AR-15-style weapon shot and killed five people Friday, including an 8-year-old — an angry response to the neighbors’ request that he stop shooting in his yard while their baby was trying to sleep, Texas authorities said Saturday. The …
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Ummm…What?
Tucker’s an ex-Fox. There are zero details yet about who did what to whom: did Murdoch say to Carlson, “you’re fired?” Did Carlson say “you can’t fire me, I quit?” Did some other billionaire offer the right’s masculinity maven yet more cash? Is there something about to drop that would have compelled Tucker “to spend …