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Teacher. Craftsman. Golfer. New Deal Democrat. New Englander living in Texas. Well, not Texas - but Dallas.
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It’s almost as though - and hear me out - they are not actually the best people.

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

The disparity in our principles is so much greater than the differences in our politics. We cannot begin to discuss the latter until we have resolved the former.

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

It's odd that Elon Musk's emulation of the Nazis stops short of creating reliable cars and rockets that get to their destination.

submitted 96 days ago • 139 comments

If you’ve ever taken the oath to uphold the Constitution, this is the time to live up to it.

submitted 97 days ago • 1082 comments

I’m not overly sentimental by nature, but I sure do miss the days when conservatives would lecture me about how we’re a constitutional republic and not a democracy.

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments

I feel that there have been so many other opportunities for Sen. McConnell to apply his “as a youth, I suffered from polio” argument to his politics and his votes over the years that I am largely unmoved by his invoking it now.

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

If the Gulf of Mexico can decide to identify as the Gulf of America, then my students can identify however they damn well please.

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

If Trump is doing the right things, he can do them the right way. Pass them as bills in a Republican congress, sign them into law by a Republican president and have them upheld by a Republican judiciary. But they won’t, because he isn’t. And that’s that.

submitted 108 days ago • 0 comments

If taxes are the dues we have to pay to live in a civilized society, I’m confused as to why I am currently paying taxes.

submitted 110 days ago • 0 comments

Help, weak men are making hard times

submitted 116 days ago • 8 comments

As a father of five kids, I totally agree with this evergreen post.

submitted 116 days ago • 593 comments

For a bunch of people who claim the Constitution was inspired by the Bible, they sure make a regular show of proving to us that they haven’t read either.

submitted 119 days ago • 0 comments

Every attribute that made Merrick Garland such a terrible Attorney General would have made him a wonderful Supreme Court justice. Screw Mitch McConnell. Screw the GOP.

submitted 132 days ago • 0 comments

In 1977, Vincent Price starred in a one-man-show where he played openly gay Oscar Wilde; it was condemned by Anita Bryant. When asked about her condemnation, Price replied that Wilde had already written a play about Anita: “A Woman of No Importance”

submitted 134 days ago • 107 comments

Dry January? Nope. Sorry. No way I’m giving up alcohol AND the Biden Administration in the same month.

submitted 133 days ago • 0 comments

Biden: "In four years, the economy created 16.6 million new jobs, the most in any single presidential term. We've created jobs every single month I was in office ... the economy I'm leaving is the best in the world."

submitted 133 days ago • 334 comments

While in Houston, the Reverend Joel Olsteen shutters his church during a hurricane.

submitted 135 days ago • 0 comments

Said it before and I will say it again: We are heading towards the most unsatisfying “I told you so” ever….

submitted 166 days ago • 0 comments

Say what you will, but Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency is already paying dividends. Gabbard will be able to meet with Putin and Assad with one plane trip.

submitted 166 days ago • 0 comments

Exactly. The thing that I remember most from his first term was the sheer incompetence.

submitted 167 days ago • 0 comments

I believe that a bipartisan group of 8-10 Senators who provide any President-elect with a list of five nominees for each cabinet post who would receive a swift and near-unanimous confirmation would fall under the definition of “advise and consent” more than a basically partisan vote.

submitted 168 days ago • 0 comments