Author: Tod Kelly
What’s a POTUS to do?
The reason we aren’t really sure what a POTUS candidate’s minimum level of education is supposed to be, argues Tod, is that we aren’t really sure what a POTUS is supposed to do.
Doubling down on mandatory vaccinations
Oregon proves Tod right.
Bonus content: Do you know which religions do and don’t forbid vaccinations?
Why “I believe vaccinations are good but shouldn’t be mandatory” isn’t as neutral as it sounds
A risk manager’s perspective.
Super Bowl Open Thread
Feel free to offer analysis, give commercial reviews, talk smack, share party food recipes, make drunken rants, whatever…
Somethin’s Gotta Give
A traditional conservative irresistible force meets a traditional conservative immovable object in Texas.
Tiny Doo, Billie Holiday, and the Longstanding Crime of Black Music
San Diego authorities will be asking a jury to give Brandon Duncan 25-to life for the crime of recording a rap album. And if you think that’s strange, think again.
Talk to Me Like I’m Stupid: A Kind-Of-Sort-of Comments Rescue, False-Scotsman Edition
When tribes become large and fractured, who gets to say who is and isn’t a member?
This Just IN: Pravda on the Wabash
The Governor of Indiana is about to launch a state-run news service that will compete with agencies such as the Associated Press even as it controls access to public information. It is an idea that is terrible for a number of reasons, the primary one being this:
It might well work.
Why I’m not going to miss the Tea Party when it dies: Reason #87
Because it specialized in using the Constitution as a public relations weapon, without ever really respecting it at all.
Mandatory MLK-Day Online Re-Reading List
How can we best honor Martin Luther King on MLK Day? Here are three reading selections — none of which are by Dr. King himself — that would be a great place to start.
Black Mirror 101, “The National Anthem”
Black Mirror’s first episode, National Anthem, isn’t really the Twilight Zone-esque sci-fi show it claims to be. But it might be the best political/social satire ever produced for television. Spoilers herein, as well as disturbing sexual content. By Tod Kelly.
“And don’t let the door hit you in the ass on your way out…”
After six years of walking on egg shells, the RNC establishment flexes its muscles as it rightly and belatedly censures and demands the resignation of one its own.
