If a play has “Trilogy” in the title, it’s going to be long. With a run time of 3 hours and 20 minutes, The Act Contemporary Theatre’s presentation of The Lehman Trilogy feels like a Ken Burns aficionado attempted to turn a ten-hour documentary into a three-act fictionalized play. The result is a densely packed, tonally flat presentation of the founding, expanding and eventual … [Read more...] about Review of Seattle’s ACT Contemporary Theatre’s Presentation of The Lehman Trilogy
THE SUPREME COURT IS GOOSE-STEPPING FOR TRUMP IN SLOW MOTION
Way back when I was a boy, the U.S. Supreme Court was so revered as an institution that my fourth-grade teacher required us to learn the names of all nine members. We kids could never have imagined that there’d come a day when the highest bench in the land would be so widely reviled. And deservedly so, because no matter what its MAGA-infested majority ultimately concocts for … [Read more...] about THE SUPREME COURT IS GOOSE-STEPPING FOR TRUMP IN SLOW MOTION
Von Poopy Pants (Cartoon and Video)
If you are the least cooperative legal client of all time while neglecting to pay your legal bills, then you may get stuck with a lawyer so bad that he enters into evidence that your nickname is Von ShitzInPants. That’s what happened to Donald Trump yesterday. Trump’s lawyer, Todd How-The-Fuck-Did-I-Pull-The-Short-Straw Blanche used a social media post from his client’s … [Read more...] about Von Poopy Pants (Cartoon and Video)
Pundits hope Biden Administration move to reschedule marijuana will get them clicks
Most Americans support legalizing pot. Political pundits insist Biden is courting votes by rescheduling the drug. The latest headlines and news stories channeling chart junk creators come from the Associated Press and the Washington Post. Without evidence, each claims that the Biden Administration's rescheduling of marijuana is designed to win November votes. The … [Read more...] about Pundits hope Biden Administration move to reschedule marijuana will get them clicks
Columbia University protests look increasingly like those in 1968 as police storm campuses nationwide
The police have regularly been called in to squelch student protests over the past century. Michael M. Santiago / Getty Images Stefan M. Bradley, Amherst College Columbia University has become the epicenter of student protests over the war in Gaza. In the following Q&A, Stefan Bradley, a history professor at Amherst College and author of … [Read more...] about Columbia University protests look increasingly like those in 1968 as police storm campuses nationwide
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Third parties will affect the 2024 campaigns, but election laws written by Democrats and Republicans will prevent them from winning
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks on March 30, 2024, in Los Angeles. Mario Tama/Getty Images Barry C. Burden, University of Wisconsin-Madison Once again, the U.S. is entering a presidential campaign with some voters expressing curiosity about independent and minor-party candidates. None of those candidates has a … [Read more...] about Third parties will affect the 2024 campaigns, but election laws written by Democrats and Republicans will prevent them from winning
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What the Supreme Court is doing right in considering Trump’s immunity case
There was a lot of press attention paid to the Trump immunity hearing at the Supreme Court building on April 25, 2024. Mandel NGAN / AFP/Getty Images Claire B. Wofford, College of Charleston Following the nearly three-hour oral argument about presidential immunity in the Supreme Court on April 25, 2024, many commentators were aghast. The … [Read more...] about What the Supreme Court is doing right in considering Trump’s immunity case
THANK DONALD TRUMP
As a businessman, he’s a failure. As a human being, he’s a failure.He doesn’t seem to have a kind bone in his body. He’s a liar. A cheat. A sexual abuser. And a coward. However, he does possess a quality enabling him to press people’s emotional buttons. He understands anger. He understands being left out. He understands the fragility of people’s feelings. He understands … [Read more...] about THANK DONALD TRUMP
Medal of Honor Tuesday: Army Tech. 5th Grade Joe Pinder Jr.
With the 80th anniversary of D-Day -- the “Battle of Normandy” -- coming up in a little more than a month, it is only fitting that the Medal of Honor recipient recognized in this week’s DoD “Medal of Honor Monday” is one of the heroes who participated in “the greatest amphibious operation ever undertaken.”* June 6, 1944, was the day when more than 150,000 allied troops … [Read more...] about Medal of Honor Tuesday: Army Tech. 5th Grade Joe Pinder Jr.
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Teens see social media algorithms as accurate reflections of themselves, study finds
Teens say ‘for you’ algorithms get them right. Photo illustration by Spencer Platt/Getty Images Nora McDonald, George Mason University Social media apps regularly present teens with algorithmically selected content often described as “for you,” suggesting, by implication, that the curated content is not just “for you” but also “about you” – … [Read more...] about Teens see social media algorithms as accurate reflections of themselves, study finds
The US-led Gaza Pier Project Proceeding on Schedule, With Some Wariness. (UPDATE)
UPDATE: U.S. Central Command released the photos below of the ongoing construction of the floating JLOTS pier in the Mediterranean. Original Post: Today, Secretary Antony Blinken will travel to Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Israel to meet with regional partners. One of the subjects on the table is the increase of humanitarian aid to Gaza and “the importance of … [Read more...] about The US-led Gaza Pier Project Proceeding on Schedule, With Some Wariness. (UPDATE)
The political self-immolation of Kristi Noem: Bipartisan furor over her shooting her puppy
Oh, yes political times have changed and each day they seemingly change more, and not always for the best. Yet, in this latest installment of "Hey, Let's Shatter Another Norm!" we do see a glimmer of hope. Somehow South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem felt it would somehow strengthen her personal and political branding if in a new memoir she recounted how she shot an … [Read more...] about The political self-immolation of Kristi Noem: Bipartisan furor over her shooting her puppy
“This is how fascists campaign”
The campaign that Donald J. Trump is running in 2024 is a stark departure from 2016. It's not just that he's eight years older, chronologically. It's the transformation in his rhetoric. In the Sunday New York Times magazine, Charles Homans details what he's learned after attending "seven Trump rallies in seven states since October." When I got home from Mar-a-Lago [on … [Read more...] about “This is how fascists campaign”
RNC “election integrity” legal counsel one of the 18 indicted for election fraud in Arizona
Last month, Donald Trump took an axe to the Republican National Committee (RNC), at least indirectly. Trump's daughter-in-law Lara Trump is co-chair, serving with N.C. attorney Michael Whatley, chair. Whatley was an active member of Trump's army of lawyers who tried to overturn the 2020 election. Irony alert: they hired Christina Bobb to serve as the RNC counsel for … [Read more...] about RNC “election integrity” legal counsel one of the 18 indicted for election fraud in Arizona
It’s not Trump’s Supreme Court. It’s Mitch McConnell’s.
Headline after headline Friday reflected political pundit reaction to Thursday's Supreme Court oral arguments. The case? Former president Donald J. Trump's claims of immunity from prosecution for his central role in the January 6, 2021 insurrection. From "The Trumpification of the Supreme Court" to "Trump Melts Institutions, SCOTUS Edition" most link Trump with the 6-3 … [Read more...] about It’s not Trump’s Supreme Court. It’s Mitch McConnell’s.
Marjorie Taylor Greene
A vile human being by Frenchy I’m an amateur historian and an observer of the workings of our government. I am acutely aware of the breathtaking inspiration of some of our finest politicians and statesmen as well as the countless low-lifes that have somehow wormed their way into our daily political and government life. It’s distressing when it happens, but as a friend of … [Read more...] about Marjorie Taylor Greene
DESPITE WHAT TRUMP’S DESPERATE CRIMINAL LAWYER SAYS, THIS IS NOT NORMAL JOURNALISM
Todd Blanche, who’s stuck with the hapless task of defending Donald Trump in criminal court, mouthed something in his opening statement that really pissed me off. At first I wasn’t sure I’d heard him correctly, so I checked the trial transcript and lo and behold there it was, on page 90. Blanche tried to tell the jurors that the criminal defendant’s deal with the National … [Read more...] about DESPITE WHAT TRUMP’S DESPERATE CRIMINAL LAWYER SAYS, THIS IS NOT NORMAL JOURNALISM