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The federal government shutdown is on day 26, the second longest of all time, and the record holder for person-days of federal employee furl...

A video at this link explains the concept of an " Extinction Burst ". People go into a rage when something that they used to be re...

The number one trigger for military coups is the military not getting paid, which the U.S. is doing right now. And, when Trump has called up...

  For those of you who are literal minded, this is a metaphor.

  In and of itself, this is a relatively minor incident in the overall sweep of Trump 2.0 politics. But Catholics are the largest voting blo...

We are at 14 days of the shutdown (the third time that the government has shut down while Trump was President, including the longest shutdow...

 

The demise of the TypePad blog hosting site has obliterated many of the blogs in my sidebar.

 This could have been pretty cool. Around the turn of the 20th century, inexpensive meat, a product of American prosperity that had long bee...

The Ukraine War seems to have reached a turning point. Ukrainian attacks on the Russian oil and gas infrastructure, and on coal and natural ...

Keep fighting! Every week (there are rare days of respite) there is news so bad that I vacillate between outrage and despair over the future...

ICE is rotten to the core. Basically everyone who works for it is a corrupt, racist, bad cop, with no regard for the rule of law who lacks m...

Autism may be related to the human specific evolution of higher intelligence:  Researchers discovered that autism’s prevalence may be linke...

A post at Quora has a thoughtful take on why the MAGA movement is opposed to so many fundamental American ideals. Tomaž Vargazon · Practici...

So, today was my first day at a new job as a senior assistant city attorney with the City and County of Denver. As usual, as a lawyer, I can...

The case for a next generation A-10. One recent article tries to justify the retirement of the A-10 Warthog attack aircraft. Retiring the f...

  U.S. counties with the highest and lowest rates of excessive drinking. Observations: * There are legitimately low levels of drinking in th...

 * I was supposed to be in a trial out of town today for one of my clients. She's been hospitalized since Sunday (it is not life threate...

Typepad is shutting down August 27, 2025 We have made the difficult decision to discontinue Typepad, effective September 30, 2025. What Does...

The modern Democratic party operates to a great extent like politics is supposed to work in Civics 101, and follow on political theory says ...