On Letting The Poors Eat Cake and Drive Electric Vehicles
Damn, Democrats. Shrugging your shoulders about the price of gas and suggesting we all buy electric vehicles isn’t helping
Category: West Virginia Politics
TikTok, On The Clock, Joe Jeffries Career Has Stopped
Social media like TikTok once again-like money, power, & alcohol-empowers folks to be their selves, and often far too much of themselves.
OT Contributor Network: Avi Woolf’s Podcast with Andrew Donaldson
Avi Woolf’s latest podcast features a conversation with OT’s Andrew Donaldson talking about the latter’s native West Virginia.
Team Pillbillies, FTW
I was wrong. I thought I’d heard every West Virginia joke there is. But then the drug companies decided to make bank off the “pillbillies”.
Fearing Immunization Gap, West Virginia Tries Incentivizing Covid Vaccinations
With West Virginia having gone from leading the nation to lagging behind, Governor Jim Justice is getting creative and incentivizing Covid vaccinations.
Ordinary Times’ Andrew Donaldson on Consumer Choice Radio
Ordinary Times’ own Managing Editor Andrew Donaldson appeared on Consumer Choice Radio to talk politics, culture, West Virginia & more
To the Place I Belong
By this point, I am afraid that the absurdity of all this had become too much to bear.
How Tan Was My MRAP
With police accountability very much in question, the easy and flippant lip service of “at no cost” and “find a way to use it” are grossly irresponsible
Big Jim vs The Corona
When West Virginia’s governor “Big Jim” Justice speaks, the residents hold our breath to see what sort of colorful (read: embarrassing) babble will come out
One of Three, But Should Be Many
Thinking we are better off without such people as Najib Ahmad Bakhtari in our nation is lunacy.
About that Clean Water and Air in West Virginia
There is much about environmental sciences/climate change debate that I do not know much about. The water and air in West Virginia? That I know about.
Dirty Politics
If Maroney is proven guilty, his ouster is not inappropriate, though I am of the opinion that such ouster should occur at the voting booth.
Trump’s Useful Idiot
The bully doesn’t really care about his minion; he’s simply a useful idiot. West Virginia is Donald Trump’s useful idiot.
Dark and Dusty, Painted on the Sky
The dirty history of West Virginians trying to get clean of documentary perceptions.
WV Attorney General Pats Himself on the Back
West Virginia AG Patrick Morrisey vigorously patted himself on the back over a $37M settlement with pharmaceutical giant McKesson. He shouldn’t have.
Someone is Lying on the Internet
This video checks all the boxes for your garden variety tin-foil hat Q Anon tweet, including the main characteristic of a Q Anon offering: It is not real.
Rise and Clean Your Own House, Starting with Eric Porterfield
Clean your own house first. Eric Porterfield is in West Virginia, and West Virginia is my home, so let’s just deal with him for now.
Incentive to Kill
Police officers are already broadly protected from the consequences of snap decisions to shoot; what about those who choose not to kill?
UPDATE: WV Supreme Court Impeachment Proceedings
Word came today that an agreement has apparently been reached between the Senate presiding over the impeachment trial and two of the justices, Margaret Workman and Beth Walker. The two judges have purportedly agreed to be censured, but will keep their seats on West Virginia’s high court.
WV Supreme Court: Blankenship Won’t Be on the Ballot
Coal baron and federal convict Don Blankenship’s bid to be on the November ballot for a US Senate seat has ended, by ruling of a disheveled and short-handed state supreme court.
