We’ve been slaughtering each other since we became human, and even before. But back in the savannah days, you had to WORK at it. Now, anyone can kill anyone, and it’s easy. Just point, and pull the trigger.
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Once the Nazis took power in Germany they banned books, outlawed drag shows, and homosexuality, changed school curricula to remove mention of their atrocities in WWI, and rewrote election laws so they’d never again lose an election. Sound familiar?
This weekend, with the NRA's obscenity underway, 38 people were shot, eight fatally, in gun violence across Chicago. And that was not all of the gun violence.
Georgia now empowers any parent to initiate a process to challenge to material believed to be “harmful to minors," in their opinion.
As Elon Musk’s Twitter barrels toward insolvency, he has only himself to blame for lacking this basic business sense about social networks.
A person commits a crime, a prosecutor or grand jury determines probable cause to bring charges, an indictment or arrest follows, and then comes a trial. That’s the procedure. That the suspect is a former president is beside the point.
News businesses or profit machines like FOX can hire anybody who falls off a turnip truck and label them journalists because the job has no standardized requirements.
In a sharp rebuke to the GOP's expulsion vote, all 36 members of Nashville's Metropolitan Council voted to reinstate Jones to his seat representing their district.
In the minds of Republicans in Congress, and especially in state capitals, there's an unequivocal message—just go for it. You can trample on Democracy with few meaningful consequences.
Heavier and heavier loads of oppression and outright sabotage have been driving over the bridge of our Democracy trying to tear past its weight limit. So far they have not succeeded. But even today, the attempts continue.
Florida Republicans hate education that they haven't blessed. So, don't be be surprised if, along with DeSantis’ election cops and his Praetorian Guard, the Legislature authorizes an Iranian-style Morality Police.
A statue long considered a Renaissance masterpiece in Florence (and the world over) has now been deemed pornographic in Florida. Such a stark contrast in points of view—here or there—has a long history.
Columnist Jay Bookman opines that of all the potential indictments of the former president the least important concerns hush money allegedly paid to a porn star.
Politics is like talking to yourself only stupider. Politics never seems to get out of its own way and never poses solutions for problems and is just a problem unto itself.
The only people who don't get that this saga is coming to an ignominious end are Trump himself and the horde of media fools that think he is still a story rather than a cautionary tale.
Numerous respected news organizations have been caught lying to their audiences. And this self-inflicted damage to journalism is every bit equal to the attacks launched by politicians.