I'm still hoping lots and lots of people watch the Republican #CocaineConvention. That's because I think it will turn off independent voters and may even persuade some mainstream-- as in non-fascist-- Republicans to stay home on November 3rd. Unfortunately, according to Nielsen, just 15.9 million people watched, a 28% drop from 2016.
Portland? Who's next?My first trip to Turkey was in 1969-- and it was love at first sight. I drove a VW camper van from London to Istanbul, stayed a few weeks and then drove the entire width of the country-- to Ankara and Kirikkale (then a small village, now a sprawling city) in the middle of the country, along the Black Sea to Samsun and Tabzon, down into the "wild east" city of Ezurum and then to Iran.
by NoahAs you can see, I've decided to use an excellent anti-Trump/Pence TV ad as tonight's "meme." It's brought to us by a group calling itself Republican Voters Against Trump but I think it's important to point out that, although a small percentage of Republicans may be against Trump and may even realize that he is a danger to us all, they are still Republicans.
Fake Magic by Nancy OhanianYesterday, writing for the Washington Post, Alex Tabarrok and Ahluwalia Ohlhaver-- public health professionals-- asserted that We could stop the pandemic by July 4 if the government took these steps.
You wouldn't know from the way the mainstream media is constantly, incessantly harping on it, but ending social distancing-- backed by Trump-- is a fringe position among most Americans. Earlier today I was speaking with one of the Blue America-edorsed congressional candidates from Texas, Julie Oliver and she told me, defiantly, that "We aren't going to let Texas be defined by its smallest minds.
You may think of Jeff Rasley as a travel writer and Himalayan trekking organizer. His last post for us-- over at our travel blog-- dealt with his cross-country drive through the American pandemic.
Yesterday, just as the news broke that the Trumpist economy has seen another 6.6 million new unemployment claims filed, the Wall Street Journal published a piece by a team of their reporters in Europe-- Jason Douglas in London, Tom Fairless in Frankfurt and Stacy Meichtry in Paris-- explaining how the EU has u
How many times have you seen columns called The Worst President Ever? A conservative historian, Max Boot did a good one yesterday, noting that he's been reluctant to label Señor Trumpanzee the worst president in U.S. history. "Some presidents who seemed awful to contemporaries (Harry S. Truman) or simply lackluster (Dwight D. Eisenhower, George H.W. Bush) look much better in retrospect," he wrote.
McConnell is a master of one thing and one thing only-- obstructionI'm not going to argue about conservative, greed-obsessed businessmen rushing headlong into markets to profit from societal disruption.
