Today’s News: The elephant in the room
Tonight’s Jan 6 Committee hearing made lots of news tonight. But as Brian Stelter reported in his Reliable Sources newsletter tonight, perhaps the most important comment came from Michigan Republican…
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Some great stuff
I had never seen this before, its absolutely hilarious. Here’s another great Twitter story: Frank Slade was helping his Aunt Ethel run her gas station in Goldsboro, North Carolina, when…
I read the news today, oh boy
Today’s news: In the past few days our entire MSM has been preoccupied with: 1. The Prime Minister’s hair (not a typo)2. A nonsense “Canada is communist” statement made by…
Today’s News: Updates from all over
Uvalde Massacre update: The Uvalde preliminary report is out and it is damning. pic.twitter.com/1pIjB5hVwX — mrs.LHS ????☮️ (@ABPC84) July 18, 2022 We’ve gutted education financing to fund police departments just…
Weekend: Music, and Animal Crackers
Hey, Gangnam Style was 10 years old as of Friday! And Psy is still going stong – he has now released 9 albums and is on tour again this summer.…
Today’s News: The Tale of the Ten-Year-Old
The Tale of the Ten-year Old has now become a shameful part of American history for Republicans and for American media. Every conservative thought experiment about the pregnant 10 year…
Today’s News: Shot / chaser
The shot: From six years ago The chaser: From Friday Obviously the news agenda for at LEAST the next 72 hours is CANCELLED while we decide what we think about…
Today’s News: Whose side are these guys on?
The US story of the day is the news that the Trump’s White House Secret Service deleted its text messages from Jan 5 and 6 2021. Accidentally! Yeah, sure… I…
I’m just sittin’ here watching the wheels go round and round
So I saw this tweet tonight: What line from a song really stuck with you? — Eric Alper ? (@ThatEricAlper) July 14, 2022 And of course I immediately got lost…
Today’s News: Ain’t we havin’ some fun now!
The Jan 6 committee held another hearing today – they’re taking aim right at Trump now, putting the “fun” in “fundamentally nuts”: As bad as we thought it was…it was…
Today’s News: Finally!
Well, finally. Somebody in the White House seems to have taken charge of the abortion issue — maybe Harris, maybe Becerra, maybe Biden himself — and this is actually getting…
Weekend updates
An historic day of remembrance for Canada’s WWI soldiers in the No. 2 Construction Battalion Members of the battalion served with distinction in the First World War but faced anti-Black…
Today’s news: Nelson moments
Today seemed to be a day of “Nelson” moments. There was that day-long Rogers outage: Having Rogers internet down all day meant spending the day talking with family. They seem…
Today’s News: Looking for their soul
First up, some comment about what has happened to the soul of the Conservative party in Canada: The leadership of the CPC is still theoretically up for grabs, but the…
Walking on the funny side
First, the latest from Jolly Old England: Imagine the Titanic refusing to admit that the iceberg won. — Kathleen Donohoe (@KathleenDonohoe) July 6, 2022 The commentary is heavily implying that…
Today’s news: Comments on the passing scene
Its been a crazy day, eh? Patrick Brown is out: So arrogant he doesn’t even show up to debate other #CPC hopefuls, this after likely eliminating Patrick Brown. @PierrePoilievre so…
Today’s News: Declare victory and leave
If former Sask premier Brad Wall had ever bothered to learn French, he could have been a Conservative prime minister. He had the persona of a golden boy and the…
Today’s News: Weekend updates
Conservative leadership update: Maybe Poilievre has hired a new PR firm not staffed by 12-year-olds. He released a video today that conservatives actually liked. As for me, it worried me…
Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it
A few days ago, Margaret Atwood put out a tweet (now it has 140,000 “likes”) about how America turned itself into The Handmaid’s Tail world because people couldn’t get over…