This week the Larsen B ice shelf sloughed off the coast of Antartica, generating headlines proclaiming it the size of two Lake Eries, two Luxembourgs, Delaware, or whatever point of reference a target audience could recognize. At first it seemed[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The beach, the forest, a rose garden on a sunny day — those are places I seek out to clear my head. I’m not always successful. Heads up: I have recently changed the posting schedule for Fetch. New strips will[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The president and his administration wages war with the press on multiple fronts: demanding the White House press corps to turn off cameras during briefings, labeling all criticism or negative reports as “fake news”, exploiting incidents where news reporting reliant[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
When The Senate Majority Leader moved deliberations on health care legislation to a series of closed door sessions, did anyone seriously think the result would be a plan that anyone would like? Beyond that forgone conclusion (“no”), there are others:[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As of this writing, one of Trump’s lawyers is denying that the president is under investigation for obstruction of justice, contradicting the president’s own tweets (which so far we are expected to treat as official TrumpAdmin word…I think…).Earlier this week[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I have lived long enough to have substantial pre-Internet memories, so I can remember debates among friends getting heated and personal without the help of anonymity or technological depersonalization we often blame for the intensity of conflict online. Message boards[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
My car recently died, so I had to get another one. I like my new car. It is newer, drives well, feels comfortable, has lots of features, is relatively fuel efficient, and looks nice. But a new car payment every[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
While everyone is finding ways to resist, protest, oppose, undermine, foment revolution against, and at least mock the current administration, there seems to be no end of counsel from comfy conservative white dudes. They often style themselves as “moderates” or[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After a week with so much going on , you would probably expect me to mine it for satire and political laffs. But I have been exhausted by how much mental space Trump and his team of kleptocrats colonize. Maybe[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I just don’t know how seriously to take the institutional momentum and public outrage against the president’s firing of FBI Director James Comey. Don’t get me wrong: I think he did it to throw the FBI’s investigation into his campaign’s[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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