God is where you find him.
I am in the men’s room of a trendy bar in Belgrade Serbia. In my ear I can hear the voice of the bartender. “Oooh Daaybid!” he is saying, his timbre conveys concern. On...
David Ryan
/// December 16, 2011
I am in the men’s room of a trendy bar in Belgrade Serbia. In my ear I can hear the voice of the bartender. “Oooh Daaybid!” he is saying, his timbre conveys concern. On...
Will Truman
/// December 16, 2011
Both Idaho senators voted against the NDAA. We could chalk it up to partisanship (“They’d totally have signed on if McCain were president”) and maybe there’s something to that. It’s notable, however, that as...
Mark of New Jersey
/// December 16, 2011
I see that Elias has jumped on the study making the rounds that the net worth of America’s wealthiest family, the Walton’s, is greater than the combined net worth of the bottom 30% of...
Tod Kelly
/// December 16, 2011
As everyone everywhere knows by now Christopher Hitchens passed away last night, finally succumbing to the oesophageal cancer he has been battling with this past year. I have known this press release would be coming...
Elias Isquith
/// December 16, 2011
By this point you’ve probably already heard the most popular, latest eye-catching bit of agitprop trivia on economic inequality in America. In case you haven’t I’ll share what I think (could be wrong) was...
Burt Likko
/// December 16, 2011
Joining what I hope will be a chorus of obituaries today: What’s important in life? Good Scotch, friends, laughter, and speaking your mind forcefully and gracefully. Requiescat in pace, Christopher Hitchens.
Tod Kelly
/// December 16, 2011
My goodness, the news on the radio this morning was grim. Everything was Newt Gingrich this, Jerry Sandusky that, constant reminders that our economy is in the crapper, with wee reminders of how David...
Ethan Gach
/// December 16, 2011
Christopher Hitchens died yesterday. Vanity Fair broke the news and any number of publications are running obituaries at the moment. For myself, I can only say that one of my biggest regrets is never...
Jason Kuznicki
/// December 16, 2011
So, we’ve just narrowly averted – do we avert things in any other way? – we’ve just narrowly averted yet another government shutdown. I can’t help but feel that the magic is gone, and...
From CNN Business:
New York (CNN Business)Sheldon Adelson, the chairman and CEO of Las Vegas Sands and a major donor to Republican politicians, died late Monday following complications related to his cancer treatment, his company said. He was 87.
Adelson took a leave of absence from Sands last week to resume treatment for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, which his aides first disclosed in late February 2019.
(Featured image is "Some birds hanging out at the Sands Casino in Atlantic City" by iirraa is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Comment →In the wake of the violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol by scores of President Trump’s supporters, a lone researcher began an effort to catalogue the posts of social media users across Parler, a platform founded to provide conservative users a safe haven for uninhibited “free speech” — but which ultimately devolved into a hotbed of far-right conspiracy theories, unchecked racism, and death threats aimed at prominent politicians.
The researcher, who asked to be referred to by their Twitter handle, @donk_enby, began with the goal of archiving every post from January 6, the day of the Capitol riot; what she called a bevy of “very incriminating” evidence. According to the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab, among others, Parler is one of a number of apps used by the insurrections to coordinate their breach of the Capitol, in a plan to overturn the 2020 election results and keep Donald Trump in power.
(Featured image is "A radio tracking device on a Saker Falcon (Falco cherrug) at the Cotswold Falconry Centre" by Anguskirk and is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Comment →From Twitter Safety:
After close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence.https://t.co/CBpE1I6j8Y
— Twitter Safety (@TwitterSafety) January 8, 2021
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Comment →From DFW's CBS:
DALLAS, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) – Chief Judge Barbara Lynn of the Northern District of Texas has reversed a previous ruling of the Court that had dismissed all claims against the City of Dallas in the murder of Botham Jean.
The federal civil rights lawsuit against the City of Dallas is now allowed to proceed once an amended lawsuit is filed.
We discussed Amber Guyger getting indicted here.
We discussed her trial here.
(Featured image is Botham Jean from The Botham Jean Foundation/Facebook)
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