"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
In the 1960’s, Tim Leary said “turn on, tune in, drop out.” Ken Kesey, by contrast, said, take all the craziness, madness, and glitz and make something better from it. Kesey was right. So is solarpunk. Screw despair, dystopia, and…
The alt-right is going berserk trying to show Paddock somehow must be ISIS-linked / crazed libtard terrorist, anything but what he was – which was a secretive white gun nut from an area with lots of sovereign citizens. Some of…
Stephen Paddock was a high roller. Thus, he probably asked for and got comped the suite and hotel room he slaughtered innocents from. The image is from an excellent nuts-and-bolts story from NYT about the chronology of the Vegas shooting.…
I’ve never really understood our national obsession with team sports. Sure, they are fun to watch, to cheer for our teams and boo the opposition. And yes, athletes do absolutely spectacular things. But the whole hoopla about how sports builds…
The huge problem with helping Puerto Rico is you can’t just roll convoys of supplies in by truck. It’s an island. Everything comes in by ship or plane. FEMA, it appears, has genuinely mobilized as have multiple government agencies and…
How do grannies get refills on their meds and babies get clean diapers when the power is out, roads destroyed, and stores are empty? Previous hurricane disasters in Puerto Rico resulted in power being out for 2-3 weeks, which is…