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Jussie Smollett was just sentenced. 150 days in jail, $25,000 fine, $120,000 in restitution to the City of Chicago. PROTIP: When setting up a fake crime to try to rejuvenate your failing career, DON'T pay your henchmen by cheque!

The Biden administration has issued more drilling permits per month in its first year in office than the Trump administration did in its first three years in office. I'd cite my source, but why bother? The Trumplickers'll ignore it anyhow.

I was shocked that President Biden directly attacked Representatives Greene, Gosar, and Boebert. That was beneath him, and would be beneath any President but one.

Discuss. . .

I'm setting up this thread as an alternative for discussion of, rather than posting stuff about, the Ukraine war. Let's see if it works. If you wanna support something you're saying, please just give a link those interested can click on. Been fighting with Moosie about this, and figure this...

A rodent infestation at a Family Dollar warehouse has prompted the discount chain to recall a wide range of products sold at hundreds of stores throughout the southern United States. Health concerns about the rat infestation at an Arkansas distribution center have also led to the temporary...

Everybody talks about 'em. So what is a "right?" I would suggest the following. . . a "right" is an area of life or interaction where the choice of the holder of the right cannot be denied nor even questioned. Which don't mean ya can't say the person's wrong, and use your rights to thwart...

Easy to see why.

An 11-year-old girl's father and grandfather died. She's a big fan of Philadelphia Eagles safety Anthony Harris. The girl's mother reached out to Harris, who responded by flying to Texas to take the girl to the daddy-daughter dance. Story

Seems two fine, upstanding citizens, father and son. decided to shoot at a FedEx driver making a delivery because he refused their commands to stop. I'd call this racist if the victim was Black. Oops, turns out he is. How could this be in the not-a-racist United States of Freedom and...

Well, after two years of farting around, they finally announced the new name of the Washington NFL franchise. The Commanders. Woo. Hoo.

Story Asked a perplexed Russian diplomat "Vot is 'feck aff yiz shitehawks?'"

His continual use of product on his combover was a clear violation of the Emollients Clause of the Constitution. The Fashion Police division of the DoJ is investigating.

"if you look at the statistics, African American voters are voting in just as high a percentage as Americans" --Moscow Mitch McConnell

I can think of three off the top of my head. 1. Punishing Syria for using NBC weapons. 59 cruise missiles, lotsa boom, significant damage to an airbase, no 20-year commitment to a war where we had no business. This was very early in his term, and it raised my eyebrows. 2. Warp Speed - the...

According to worldometer, we have about 300 million Covid cases worldwide. That's about 4% of the world population. Same source, of resolved cases we have about 5 1/2 million deaths out of those 300 million. That's a little under 2%. Leaving aside all your (and my) political BS and...

Every measure to identify "communities of interest" in gerrymandering only opens up more opportunities for undemocratic deck-stacking (as well as being patronizing and bigoted). Start in the northeasternmost point in each state and computer-model X equal-population, geographically cohesive...

Republican heroes. . .

Well, DC is having its annual snow"storm" (about two inches (5 cm)), expecting around 4-6 total (10-15 cm). Watching my neighbors pathetically and futilely struggling to get their tactical SAVs up a gentle, well-paved incline reminds me that it's uncharitable to laugh at the misfortune of...