Robert Arnold

Sometimes, you have to stop and consider a full blown purge.

Capitalism Redifined

Always More Shit

I think Trump is really beginning to realizes how unpopular he is. And it seems he's having a lot more trouble getting the rubes to rally loudly enough for him to compensate.

So the more he feels that disapproval, the more churlish he's likely to get, and the more punishment he's likely to dole out.

Erika

The bad guy never identifies himself as the bad guy.

Angela

I doubt seriously that Graham Platner is anything close to the perfect guy for Mainers to put in a US Senate seat.

And I doubt he's somebody I'd trust absolutely to do - or to have done - exactly the right thing. Past, present, or future.

He's a politician, so grains of salt are in order.

But he seems not to be trying to hide from anything. He's fucked up on occasion, he seems to be honest about acknowledging it all, he looks you in the eye when he speaks - without that over-practiced phony shit-eatin' smiley smirky attitude that people like Collins always bring - and he's made adjustments. He's worked on himself.

So when Corporate Media Lords line up against somebody who genuinely wants to make some real changes that just might help regular normal people, it pays to be very skeptical of what their Press Poodles are trying to tell us.

Rich

There's more to those numbers than meets the eye.

What If

... we had leadership like this again?

Eisenhower jotted this down some time shortly after the first waves had either started across the English Channel, or disembarked into the landing craft, a mile or so off the coast of Normandy.

The fact that he put the wrong date at the end of the thing is believed to be a hint at how worried he was - anxious about possibly sending 150,000 troops into a death trap.

Can you imagine Donald Trump even thinking such thoughts? Taking full responsibility for something as enormous as the invasion of Europe? And writing it down?

Our landings in the Cherbourg-Havre area have failed to gain a satisfactory foothold, and I have withdrawn the troops.

My decision to attack at this time and place was based upon the best information available.

The troops, the air, and the Navy did all that Bravery and devotion to duty could do. If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.

Erika Jordan

The fines and penalties are priced in - the cost of doing business.

And it's deductible!

A.I. May Never Work As Advertised

It's a machine. Machines don't think, because machines can't think.

On Bad Faith

A crisis feels urgent - motivating. The monster is coming for you and your children. You have to respond immediately and do exactly what you're told.

A five point plan for affordable housing, and a white paper on making the move to Medicare For All just feels like extra homework.

Moral Panic sells like hotcakes. Reasoned solutions to real-world problems are boring.