The Failing New York Times has just done another big reveal on Loser Trump’s taxes.
The Failing New York Times has just done another big reveal on Loser Trump’s taxes.
Do you keep track (loosely) of nuclear proliferation? I feel sometimes that there’s something odd about me, the way I am constantly keeping my ear to the ground about the various governments that are building these horrible monstrous things designed to destroy us all in a bath of light and fire.
Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
– H.L. Mencken
At what point are we shifting from political commentary to laughing at someone with a debilitating mental illness?
One of the basic skills of philosophy is to try to combat your own cognitive biases by flipping situations around, i.e.: “putting yourself in the other guys’ shoes” or whatever you want to call it. It’s a skill Americans don’t seem to learn in school, which is why (I believe) we have a population that is ripe for turning into imperialists and believers in various forms of exceptionalism.
It must be great times for the pentagon: a blockhead in the white house who’ll spend any amount on “defensive” weaponry, and law-makers from both parties that will sign any check so long as it’s for wars. Shopaholic heaven!
I think it’s pretty progressive that the town of Fair Haven, Vermont, elected a mayor who is a Nubian …
The US strategy regarding Venezuela appears to be to cause as much pain and disturbance as possible, while offering “help” contingent on ‘regime change.’
The “Parthian Shot” is a legendary military tactic, in which cavalry pull a pursuit by appearing to retreat, then suddenly turn in their saddles and give the pursuer a massive barrage of arrows straight in the face.
I’m baffled by all the wishful thinking around Michael Cohen’s testimony. Trump already made it clear that he believed/knew the Russians were going after people’s emails: he blurted it into the microphone, “Russia, if you’re listening…”