The Current Situation

All of this reminds me of a Bible story…

And in case you’re not familiar with that story, I’ll let Wikipedia do the explaining in plain English. For those…

4 years ago

A supercut of “Dr. Drew” Pinsky being spectacularly wrong about the novel coronavirus

One of the people featured in The Daily Show’s Heroes of the Pandumbic — a supercut of Fox News talking…

5 years ago

Screenshots of Fox News downplaying or conspiracy-theorizing the novel coronavirus

File this one for future reference, folks. Also worth checking out Fox News lied, and people died, which features Heroes of…

5 years ago

U.S. presidents and their dogs

Is it possible to neuter a dog twice? It certainly appears to have happened to the bitch in the lower…

5 years ago

The U.S. isn’t the only country with jus soli, a.k.a. birthright citizenship

Just about every country in the Americas offers birthright citizenship, a.k.a. jus soli. A certain president* who had trouble disavowing…

6 years ago

Tomorrow is Tax Day!

The reason why Tax Day falls on April 17th this year Tomorrow is Tax Day in the United States: the…

7 years ago

Tallahassee mayor and Florida gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum at Café con Tampa

Someday, perhaps a decade from now, when we’re all looking back at how far the Tampa Bay area has come,…

7 years ago

If you need a reason to be FOR net neutrality, just look at who’s AGAINST it

If you’re a regular reader of this blog, chances are that you’ve seen a lot of arguments made by well-known,…

7 years ago

I had to disavow the Nazis. Why can’t the president?

That’s me on the right, on Thursday, January 26, 2017, celebrating the acquisition of my permanent resident status in the…

7 years ago

Don’t know much about history…

Not all of us (myself included) were schooled in the United States, so you may have heard Donald Trump’s reference to Andrew…

8 years ago