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The last set of results before election season truly gets underway, post-Labor Day.  8/27 8/14 8/2 7/17 7/2 6/11 5/...

Ah hah!  The genius who created the awesome fake presidential seal, with the imperial Russian eagle, the golf clubs in one foot and a wad of cash in the other, has been discovered to be a former Republican who’d had it with Trump and who no longer...

One of the most disheartening things I deal with on social media is confronting the fact that some of my veteran friends have accepted Donald Trump... Or at least his perverted view of patriotism. We’ve been through some tough situations together, so...

In Latin America, the situation has deteriorated to the extent that criminal gangs have taken over large areas in the wake of civil wars in the region. Much of this is due to a U.S. policy of deporting thousands and thousands of gang members, trained...

It’s truly amazing what happens when a progressive or two starts to gain some national political traction.  Besides Bernie Sanders being a boogeyman for conservatives and so called centrists, ...

Tonight I learned there are two types of people who buy sweet corn at the supermarket—those who take it on faith that the corn is OK and don’t shuck it (or “peek-shuck it”) first, and those who completely shuck the corn to make sure it isn’t bad before...

This letter is worth reading in full. An extract: Up until November 8, 2016, I genuinely believed that, despite its myriad shortcomings, America was still the country that stood up to bullies.  It valued intellect and scientific discovery....

Virginia Heffernan is a contributing editor to  Wired  and an opinion writer for the  LA Times. Thank you, Virginia, for putting faces on this ongoing American tragedy.

I’m so excited, I can hardly work the keyboard properly.  I’m a weaver, a sometimes spinner, and a knitter and I spend a lot of time on a site for people like me called Ravelry. It’s a site for all kinds of fiber enthusiasts (we often refer to...

There, as the title says, I.  Do.  Not.  Want.  To.  Work.  With.  Republicans. I want to fucking DESTROY THEM.  I want them to suffer the consequences from their abusive policies that they have strapped America with the past 100 years.  I don’t...