Every now and then, Boris Johnson stumbles stammering down a street in England looking like a toilet brush that…
I spent the last three months living in Mexico City. While I was there, I met three good dogs.
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Yesterday, I was having a nice coffee outside with a friend who was telling me about an upcoming trip. He and his…
Yesterday, D.C. writer Topher Mathews posted about the pumpkin on his doorstep. Specifically, he posted about how…
But...but he was trying to prevent a mutiny!!!
I understand the view about demographics and it’s probably accurate. Read more
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Thanks for writing this. I eat healthy, work out 6 days a week. I’m going to do my 12th triathlon this weekend. Read more
Embid, Simmons et AL played their hearts out this post season. I’m very proud of my city’s hoops team. Now it’s the Phillies turn to take the reins to represent Philly for the rest of the spring and summer. Read more
Off topic but related: South Carolina teachers are marching today. A few school districts have closed - don’t think it’s considered a strike though. Read more
It wasn’t just liberal members who lost their seats in the last big Republican wave in 2010; it was mostly the conservative Democrats who voted against the Affordable Care Act and stymied Barack Obama’s relatively liberal agenda at every turn.
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Splinter didn’t exist in 2016. Read more
Maybe, and I’m just spit balling here, it’s because there never was an existential threat from socialism to our communal existence, but there is a threat to the upper caste in this country from it, specifically the billionaire class.
Ever notice how the neocons and neolibs cannot pounce quick enough on the “threat” of… Read more
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It’s sometimes important to stop and remind ourselves that, as much as the institutional Democratic Party is still haunted by the ghost of Walter Mondale and the drubbing they took in the ‘84 election, we have dragged the party a long way in the right direction over the last 20 years. It doesn’t feel like it at times,…
From Albert Burneko’s autopsy on Jim Webb’s 2016 campaign, applicable to about 99% of the above names: Read more
Whoa, I will miss him! This seems like a damn shame. I don’t know if anybody remembers — it was over two years ago, which was a long time in Trump Years, but Gutierrez was the only guy in the country who was smart enough to secure a bunch of tickets for a Trump rally in his hometown of Chicago. Read more