I cancelled today's meeting with the failing @nytimes when the terms and conditions of the meeting were changed at the last moment. Not nice
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 22, 2016
The POTUS-elect has been tweeting, repeating
The pure propaganda which spews from the right. [Read more…]
Breaking News–Justice Scalia is dead, at 79.
I am not the person to eulogize him, but I did write him a thank-you sepielle once, when his Windsor dissent proved a road map to marriage for all: [Read more…]
It’s tragedy, I won’t deny,
And everybody wonders “why?”
(They always do, when people die)
And argue… or discuss
The amateur forensics start;
His motives, actions, picked apart:
The hope is held, with all one’s heart
He isn’t “one of us” [Read more…]
The first school shooting happened, as the year had just begun;
I considered getting angry, but, you know, it’s only one. [Read more…]
It’s only a tax on the gullible;
These scammers are doing no harm
The people to blame,
To point at, to shame,
Are the people who fell for their charm! [Read more…]
I finally found the Invisible Woman!
Long thought to be merely a legend—but wait!
I’ve seen where she lives! In the comments on stories
As people re-frame the abortion debate! [Read more…]
He’s an isolated lunatic,
A sorry, troubled soul;
Just a mild-mannered, quiet sort
Who simply lost control [Read more…]
The products that we buy today
Are often full of DNA—
Consumers must be made aware!
But then may buy them… if they dare! [Read more…]
When it’s time for target practice
And the cops work on their aim
Then a simple, boring bull’s-eye
Isn’t scary—far too tame!
You need criminals to shoot at—
Or, at least, so goes the claim,
So in Florida, the targets have real faces! [Read more…]