Day: August 6, 2024

Tim Walz Tapped to be VP Kamala Harris Running Mate

Andrew Donaldson August 6, 2024

Vice President Kamala Harris will be looking to win the 2024 presidential election with Minnesota Governor Tim...

Tim Walz announced as Kamala Harris’s running mate democraticdonkey

Tim Walz announced as Kamala Harris’s running mate

Jaybird August 6, 2024

Harris selects Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, sources say

House of the Dragon Season 2 Cheats its Audience

James Erwin August 6, 2024

The point is not to fetishize violence–it is to give the drama stakes. Otherwise, each episode is...

The Swooning Stock Market and the Election

David Thornton August 6, 2024

If the economy slows as we move toward Election Day, the question will be whether voters fear...

Sometimes a Vacation Is a Misfortune 2024-08-06 CDT C1198 (08.01.16)

Sometimes a Vacation Is a Misfortune

Clare Briggs August 6, 2024

When you decide to take a couple weeks off you will get a lot of swell advice...

LeeEsq in reply to LeeEsq on Open Mic for the Week of 5/19/2025DC police stated that the gunman allegedly screamed "Free Palestine." I have to admit that I am utte…
LeeEsq on Open Mic for the Week of 5/19/2025Two staff members of the Israeli embassy in DC shot dead outside a Jewish Museum. https://www.bbc.co…
Dark Matter in reply to Dark Matter on Open Mic for the Week of 5/19/2025Roddenberry's vision is that star ships are extremely rare and a big deal... and the people are post…
Jaybird in reply to Michael Cain on Open Mic for the Week of 5/19/2025On the good replicators available to Leadership? Yeah, they can make it. Romulan Ale, too (but don't…
Jaybird in reply to Marchmaine on Open Mic for the Week of 5/19/2025It's stuff like that that tells me that these people have no conception of how someone else might th…
Dark Matter in reply to North on Open Mic for the Week of 5/19/2025I’ve never read anything that suggested vehicles or civilian craft were absent in the Star Trek univ…
Michael Cain in reply to North on Open Mic for the Week of 5/19/2025Captain Picard’s family owns Chateau Picard, a long standing, respected and desirable vineyard (talk…
Marchmaine in reply to Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 5/19/2025Heh... but have you considered that maybe the Lab Leak was Trump's fault? "But few may even know tha…
Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 5/19/2025The NYT has an opinion piece today: Why Does It Matter Whether Covid Came Out of a Lab? So, if you w…
North in reply to Dark Matter on Open Mic for the Week of 5/19/2025It's an interesting angle I hadn't considered but I do recall, in DS9, various characters complainin…