There was a 4.0 earthquake the other day in California yesterday morning. The 2:41 a.m. earthquake on the border of Fremont and Union City occurred on the Hayward Fault at a depth of 5 miles. Fremont and Union City are in the San Francisco and Oakland area. That’s not the news. The news is this: Tom Brocher, a scientist with the … Read More
Why Kasich Can’t Be President
John Kasich, the former governor of Ohio, became the newest GOP presidential candidate earlier this week. He’s number 16 now — the 16th GOP presidential candidate. I didn’t comment on it on this blog because… well, because he’s number 16 now. And he seems reasonable by comparison to the others, except… not so much. Let’s let Kasich himself recount the story, … Read More
Updates To Sandra Bland Death Including Possible Dash Cam Edits
Background is here — Unfortunately, not a new story. Black person gets pulled over in a southern town and dies in police custody. The person was Sandra Bland, a vibrant educated 28 year old woman from outside Chicago, who as down in Houston for a job interview, which she got. After a verbal exchange with police following a traffic stop … Read More
Jes In Case Them Moz-lims Show Up
Thanks, boys. I think the armed forces or the National Guard can take it from here.
RIP Theo Bikel
Broadway’s original Captain Von Trapp in The Sound of Music; also Teyve in Fiddler on the Roof. Also a good folk singer. He was 91
Trump/Fox Thoughts
Another day of all-Trump news. Only because some new polls showed him way ahead, but only one day of that poll was taken after Trump’s McCain comments. I guess the latest is that Trump gave out Lindsay Graham’s phone number in a speech. Intentionally. Serious douche. But the only thing I wanted to add was how Fox is handling the … Read More
The Great Donald Trump Performance Art Piece Is In The Last Act
SCENE: A boardroom in Trump Towers. Present is Donald Trump pacing the floor, and three senior executives sitting at the desk (Mr. A, Mr. B, and Mr. C). Also sitting is one wet-behind-the-ears junior executive, Mr. Z. Trump is on his cell phone. TRUMP: Tell him to go fuck himself! No, tweet this: “Chris Matthews is STUPID! And capitalize the word … Read More
Gawker Is Imploding
More fallout from this debacle: Tommy Craggs, the executive editor of Gawker Media, and Max Read, the editor-in-chief of Gawker.com, are resigning from the company. In letters sent today, Craggs and Read informed staff members that the managing partnership’s vote to remove a controversial post about the CFO of Condé Nast—a unprecedented act endorsed by zero editorial employees—represented an indefensible … Read More
Another Jailed Black Person “Hangs Herself”
Are you buying this? According to authorities, an 18-year-old girl hanged her self in an Alabama jail. The inmate has been identified as Kindra Darnell Chapman by the Jefferson County Coroner’s Office. Chapman was arrested on a first-degree-robbery charge for allegedly taking a cellphone and booked at Homewood City Jail Tuesday around 6:22 p.m., AL.com reports. She was last seen alive at … Read More
Gawker Does The Right Thing . . . Too Little, Too Late Though
I was going to write about a certain story, but I didn’t want to promote it. Basically, the Gawker news site put a story up online about a certain person you have never heard. And it doesn’t matter who it is. But he is the brother of someone in Obama’s cabinet, and the CFO of a major publishing company. And … Read More
The Penny Drops
Over at the right wing site The Daily Caller — one of the many right-wing websites that has grown from a steady diet from Fox News and AM talk radio to form the final wall in the echo chamber — a lonely columnist quietly looks and Donald Trump’s antics and wonders aloud this: What If The Base Is Wrong? by … Read More
For Future Generations, This Is What It A Gun Culture Looks Like
A snapshot of yesterday’s New York Times (h/t Digby):
The Suspicious Death Of Sandy Bland
28-year-old Sandra Bland (also called Sandy). She was visiting Texas from Naperville, Illinois (a Chicago suburb) to interview for a college job at her alma mater of Prairie View A&M. She got the job. On July 10, she tweeted this: Hours before she was assaulted & arrested by police, #SandraBland posted about eating here & joked w/ friends online. pic.twitter.com/0zGKcZzAsb … Read More
Chattanooga Shootings
Well, someone went ballistic (so to speak) in Chattanooga, Tennessee. It is all unfolding now, but he apparently shot up a Navy Recruitment Center. This pic was posted on Twitter The suspect has been killed. That is confirmed Not much known about him other than he was white and drove a Mustang. A police officer has been shot but … Read More
2015 Emmy Nominations
I don’t watch a lot of television, virtually every show I watched this year (“Better Call Saul”,“Downton Abbey”,“Game of Thrones”,“Homeland”,“Orange is the New Black”,“Louie”,“Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt”,”The Newsroom”,”Orphan Black”,”Inside Amy Schumer”) was nominated. I won’t make predictions about who will win; but I will italicized my HOPES. OUTSTANDING DRAMA SERIES “Better Call Saul” “Downton Abbey” “Game of Thrones” “Homeland” “House of Cards” … Read More