Hey, folks, we Yanks are exploring EVERY STINKING NOOK AND CRANNY OF WHAT the Supreme Court’s long-ago Justice Holmes called the marketplace of ideas.

No previous president has ever had the imagination to require us to do that, so Trump is furthering our educations.

I sometimes socialize with a few ex-Marines from a customer site. We recently had a conversation about “how the new regime (their term) is suffering from a self-inflicted bad case of swamp fever” and that Trump and his appointees are fast creating threats to the national security of the USA. Externally by dealing with corrupt foreign governments…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:

If you thought Scott Pruitt was bad, wait until Andrew Wheeler really gets going.

This is a tragic comedy now, where people who say government is corrupt and damaging get elected, and then make it more corrupt and damaging, often by premeditated intent.

PopeBeanie wrote:

Unseen wrote:

One major reason for discriminating against women, especially in businesses too small to be subject to fairness in hiring laws is a result of #MeToo.

This sounds too much (to me) like framing the issue as if it’s the victim’s fault. Like, “How were you dressed when you got raped?”. Or it refocuses the issue a…

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It is difficult to understand the mind-set of people like Roy Moore who is again running for Senate. He must, to some degree, hold the electorate of Alabama in contempt. Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo is awaiting the Rapture while Mike Pence is certain he cannot serve two masters. But the biggest threat from within to America must be from the new…[Read more]

I still say people like that should be out fighting the wildfires, floods, etc., rather than sit back in their air conditioned offices watching it all…….when they have the bloody time!

Unseen wrote:

One major reason for discriminating against women, especially in businesses too small to be subject to fairness in hiring laws is a result of #MeToo.

This sounds too much (to me) like framing the issue as if it’s the victim’s fault. Like, “How were you dressed when you got raped?”. Or it refocuses the issue as a reverse…[Read more]

The Whitehouse is an environmental train wreck. Just when we had a chance to turn it around. Coal. Really? Only when the climate fiasco starts hitting the wallets of the fat cats…will we see real change. When multi-million dollar homes become totally uninsurable and are regularly washed away into the sea. There will be untold suffering around…[Read more]