Here's a Shocker: He's Stiffing the Staff
Reuters is reporting the single least-surprising piece of campaign news this season:Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has run an unusually cheap campaign in part by not paying at least 10...
View ArticleOccam's Taco Truck ... #TacoTrucksOnEveryCorner
xIt's been four hours. How is there not yet polling on this?#MakeAmericaTacosAgainhttps://t.co/Ld9SYOjSgc— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) September 2, 2016 xomg, we're headed towards a...
View ArticleJudge who berated and jailed a domestic abuse victim gets her day in...
Appointed to the bench in 2005 by then-Governor Jeb Bush, the Florida County Judge Jerri Collins found herself in front of the Florida Supreme Court on Wednesday, being publicly reprimanded—live on TV....
View ArticleHey NPR, Let Me Help You With That Question About Catholics For Clinton...
This morning NPR broadcast a story wondering how it could be that so few Catholics were showing enthusiasm for Donald Trump, and they did so with a remarkable lack of awareness about history. The...
View ArticleBrock Turner is out. The news is bad enough without TIME perpetuating rape...
For the most part, I like TIME and respect their brand. Over the years I’ve read countless articles with excellent content. But today TIME was wrong. They and others in the media are doing great damage...
View ArticleSaturday Morning Garden Blogging 12.36: This 5 Acre Garden
September 3, 2016First time at SMGB — Hi everyone! Thanks for letting me blog, and where to start? That's what I said 9 years ago as I overpaid for this 4.7 acres, heavily wooded, on a hill, with a...
View Article"Is Donald Trump going to kick out the Mexicans?" - a moment in my classroom,...
Mine is an interesting school. Inner-city, high poverty, with about 1/3 of the students white, 1/3 black, and 1/3 Hispanic/Latino. What’s interesting is that though the students might tend to hang...
View ArticleUh oh, it looks like Gretchen Carlson has recordings of her conversations...
Dirty laundry anyone? New York magazine released a huge piece on Gretchen Carlson and the upheaval caused by her lawsuit with allegations of the sexually inappropriate work environment over at Fox...
View ArticleGetting the Low Down on Dominionism
I am pleased to report that task of getting the low down on dominionism may be becoming easier for scholars, journalists and activists. There have been four important works of scholarship published in...
View ArticleSpecial Session of Maine Legislature Gov. Paul LePage is unfit to serve.
"You've" been in uniform? You shoot at the enemy," he said at a statehouse press conference Friday, according to the Portland Press-Herald. "You try to identify the enemy and the enemy right now, the...
View ArticleA must-read from Josh Marshall of TPM on Trump's speech
Shortly after midnight this morning, Joshua Micah Marshall, founder and head of Talking Points Memo, put up a piece titled Trump's Blood Libel & Press Failure to which my wife just pointed me and...
View ArticleHanjin's Bankruptcy is the Largest Ever to Hit the Shipping Industry!
Not seeing this talked about here, but obviously it is in the news. Heard about it in the middle of the night on the www.bbc.com/...With South Korea's biggest shipping company filing for bankruptcy...
View ArticleThe most thoughtful thing I have read on the problems with journalism
is a piece by Jeff Jarvis titled The News and its New Silent Majority: Clinton Supporters. Jarvis is a former journalist who now teaches the subject at City University in New York, and who also blogs...
View ArticleHNV 9.3.2016: Obama, Bernie, Plouffe, state of the election
I apologize for this morning’s HNV. Hurricane Hermine swept through our area. Luckily we didn’t take on damage, but we had to take in two families whose homes took on flood damage. We have taken in...
View ArticleTrump has lost his freakin' mind!
I give up. I’m sorry, but I giv e up/ We have passed the point of a normal political campaign, we have even passed beyond a non traditional, dysfunctional campaign. We have now entered the realm...
View ArticleKristof provokes me to reflect upon religion
ONE puzzle of the world is that religions often don’t resemble their founders.Jesus never mentioned gays or abortion but focused on the sick and the poor, yet some Christian leaders have prospered by...
View Article#DQV Latinos Votamos Review: Latino Poll by Latino Decisions in Battleground...
Last Friday Latino Decisions released it’s second batch of polling of Latinos in battleground states.These were done before the Wednesday Trump “speech/rally” , so expect peores números than these...
View ArticleDawn Chorus: Iceland Birds (and Landscapes)
Good morning birders, twitchers, ornithophiles, and Democrats looking for a suitable expatriation destination if Trump wins.My wife and I spent a week in Iceland in June. As I mentioned in last week’s...
View ArticleMother Jones Article - Clinton Exonerated by FBI
For those who still care about this story or feel the need to be armed to defend HRC to friends, co-workers, family members or random Americans who still can’t grasp the clear choice and the importance...
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