This may sound crazy, but I don’t think the 2 lbs under regulation PSI for footballs is a big deal — either within the warped universe of professional football or extending outward into our ever expanding gravitationally warped universe as[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Following President Obama’s state of the union address on Tuesday — or really, even as it was going on, via social media — conservatives and libertarians hauled out all of their tired old arguments about big government, “why does every[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I haven’t seen Clint Eastwood’s “American Sniper”, so I cannot rate it as a work of art. I’m more interested in the conversation … no, that’s not the word. Social media doesn’t seem to support conversation or debate. More like[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It was fortunate Michael Dunn’s three other victims survived the bullet wounds he inflicted on them: not only for its own (most obvious) sake, but they were alive to testify in court and help bring about the convictions that will[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Chuck Todd recently let it slip that he doesn’t feel obligated to do basic fact checking of a politician’s propaganda. In this case it was GOP talking points on so-called “Obummercare” – but I think we can see how this[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Arizona and Tennessee seem to be in competition for who can impose the cruelest and dumbest laws on its citizens. In Tennessee, the legislature is moving forward with a bill to deduct 30% of TANF benefits to families whose children[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Some days it seems like my country is overrun by guys like this: not too bright, but full of anger, fear, resentment and overconfident opinions on the decline of “America” – a vague notion that rests more on fictional, highly[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I came up with this one prior to Obama’s somnambulant performance during the first debate, when Romney was imploding so bad that it distracted from some of Obama’s own problems. But after the first debate, I decided to wait until after the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
My son was watching The Adventures of TinTin, an early 90s animated adaptation of Hergé’s classic comic books, and it inspired the above entry in my sketchbook. The series is faithful to the look and style of the comics, the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Mitt Romney’s kneejerk response to the protests and the attack on the U.S. embassy in Libya, which led to the deaths of four Americans, revealed a lot about his character. All politicians have a talent for opportunism, but so few[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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