Day: July 27, 2020

Read the Democratic National Committee’s Party Platform on the War on Drugs donkey

Read the Democratic National Committee’s Party Platform on the War on Drugs

Jaybird July 27, 2020

Note: This doesn’t become OFFICIAL until it’s officially voted on at the official 2020 convention. From the...

Cornonavirus Outbreak Causes MLB to Suspend Games baseball

Cornonavirus Outbreak Causes MLB to Suspend Games

Andrew Donaldson July 27, 2020

It’s been less than a week and already Major League Baseball has a full-blown coronavirus outbreak on...

Barbarians at the Gate: Credentialism and Loving Gatekeeping, Under Certain Circumstances…

Russell Michaels July 27, 2020

Credentialism is a game whose rules are arbitrary and subject to change at any time...And it just...

A Clash of Symbols Symbols

A Clash of Symbols

Kristin Devine July 27, 2020

I wonder what other people might find if they take a moment to consider symbols from the...

Not a Thing To Eat 2020-07-27 Grand 3131 crop

Not a Thing To Eat

Clare Briggs July 27, 2020

A grand and glorious lunch.

North in reply to Philip H on From Freddie de Boer: Abundance, Up To A PointRed states build a lot more infrastructure, housing and such development compared to their Blue stat…
North on From Freddie de Boer: Abundance, Up To A PointFreddie has always had this squeamishness about YIMBY’s that I think stems from the fact that he, in…
Saul Degraw in reply to Philip H on Open Mic for the Week of 4/7/2025And he has more available but this was expected.
Dark Matter in reply to CJColucci on Open Mic for the Week of 4/7/2025I asked Google's AI the history of that word/medical-phrase. ...gained prominence in the mid-20th ce…
Philip H in reply to DensityDuck on From Freddie de Boer: Abundance, Up To A PointWhat pray tell do you think the Right in the US is correct about? I mean Democrats borrowed the righ…
Philip H on Open Mic for the Week of 4/7/2025Welp. I guess he has now had his due process. https://www.npr.org/2025/04/11/nx-s1-5361208/mahmoud-k…
CJColucci in reply to Dark Matter on Open Mic for the Week of 4/7/2025I'm not sure about that. I'm older than RFK, Jr., and I remember when I was in 8th grade and homeroo…
Dark Matter in reply to LeeEsq on From Freddie de Boer: Abundance, Up To A PointFred is weird here because he's pointing to the problems, admitting that the policies he doesn't lik…
Dark Matter in reply to LeeEsq on Open Mic for the Week of 4/7/2025The "R word" is an example of the Euphemism treadmill where we decide on a polite euphemism (or medi…
LeeEsq on From Freddie de Boer: Abundance, Up To A PointIt's always a safe bet to do the exact opposite of Freddie's advice.