Daily Archive: August 30, 2015

/// August 30, 2015

“Why do we continue to trust these [people]?”

Wherein former speechwriter Barton Swain answers better than I why I cannot bring myself to trust the politicians that you think I should.

/// August 30, 2015

Mt. McKinley no more.

/// August 30, 2015

The strange period where Disney made the best after-school cartoons.

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Jaybird on Open Mic for the week of 11/18/2024Welp, an ICBM got used in Dnipro. Don't worry, it had a conventional (non-nuclear) warhead.
Section8 on All the President’s Nominees: The Legion of GroomHegseth Defended monuments in Washington such as the Vietnam Memorial, while your buddies were fine…
John Puccio in reply to Slade the Leveller on The Mandate That Wasn’tA mandate is simply the authority given to democratically elected officials. It has nothing to do wi…
Slade the Leveller in reply to Jaybird on The Mandate That Wasn’tHeh. A fortunate turn of the head doesn't count.
Jaybird in reply to LeeEsq on The Mandate That Wasn’tSome have suggested that the ability to dodge bullets is an indicator of the Mandate of Heaven.
Slade the Leveller in reply to Andrew Donaldson on The Mandate That Wasn’tJohn is correct in the dictionary sense. In the political sense, at least as I understand it, a mand…
LeeEsq on The Mandate That Wasn’tNo man has possessed the Mandate of Heaven since the overthrow of the Qing Dynasty in 1912.
Slade the Leveller in reply to Marchmaine on The Mandate That Wasn’tNot really. But we all know that.
Jaybird in reply to Burt Likko on The Mandate That Wasn’t"Who should the Democrats have run instead of Kamala?" If you can't answer this, you've illustrated…
Jaybird in reply to Burt Likko on The Mandate That Wasn’tIt's real in some really troublesome ways!