.@realDonaldTrump: Women who have abortions should face “some form of punishment.” https://t.co/GFP6v2rw0o pic.twitter.com/qd8xyVyOo7 — CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) March 30, 2016 Oh fucking hell. This guy has a 70% unfavorable with women already. Is he doing this on purpose? Ah, but here comes Uday to the rescue: Be fair, was asked if it was ILLEGAL should there be punishment. Shouldn’t … Read More
Governor McCrory Keeps Digging Deeper
The Governor takes to Youtube: Notes as I watch this: He’s talking out of the corner of his mouth and has that fakey politician smile The lip service offered to “respecting each other’s beliefs and values” is unnerving, given what he is defending here. He responds to politicians who have “demonized” North Carolina. Yeah, they’re the problem — these outside agitators. McCrory: “Frankly … Read More
Scalia’s Absence Already Having An Impact
If Scalia was alive, this case would have ended up differently: A case that had the potential to weaken public sector unions across the United States ended with a somewhat unexpected victory for unions on Tuesday, as the Supreme Court divided 4-4 on the question of requiring nonmembers to pay a fee to the public sector union that negotiates the … Read More
FBI Quietly Drops Lawsuit Against Apple
Remember that thing last month that I wrote about where the FBI wanted to force Apple’s help to break into an iPhone of the San Bernadino terrorist? It was controversial in part because many thought that the FBI didn’t really need Apple’s help. Those people include Richard Clark. The former U.S. counterterrorism official and security adviser to the White House told NPR he … Read More
Donald Trump Campaign Manager Charged With Assault (Or “It’s Tuesday”)
Today Donald Trump’s campaign manager Corey Lewandowski was charged with battery against former Breitbart “News” reporter Michelle Fields. There was some controversy a few weeks ago when the incident happened as to whether or not it actually did happen. The videos from smartphones were (arguably) inconclusive. But a newly released surveillance video clearly shows Lewandowski grabbing Fields by the arm and … Read More
RIP Patty Duke
Another 69 year old dies. As a teen, she won an Oscar for The Miracle Worker. Duke became best known in later life as an advocate for mental health issues, after she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 1982 Her last two tweets: Hi tweethearts and FB friends. I have been absent, but not far, believe me. I love and miss you all. … Read More
Governor McCrory Attempts To Clarify HB2 . . . But Obfuscates Even More
Responding to worldwide disgust at the passage and signing of HB2, which discriminates against transgender people (and does lots of bad stuff in general), NC Governor McCrory put some shit on his website, entitled “Myths vs Facts: What New York Times, Huffington Post and other media outlets aren’t saying about common-sense privacy law” Catchy title. Can we dispense with the … Read More
The Lawsuit Begins
Two transgender people and a lesbian law school professor, along with the ACLU of North Carolina and Equality NC, filed a federal lawsuit today to challenge the new North Carolina law that blocks local governments from passing anti-discrimination rules and requiring transgender students to use bathrooms assigned to their biological sex. While I would have preferred that the lawsuit take on the … Read More
The Cuban Mistress Crisis
The National Enquirer is reporting that Ted Cruz is hiding five different mistresses. Before you scoff, remember that the National Enquirer was right about Gary Hart’s affair, and John Edwards. Others in (somewhat) more respectable media outlets seem to think it is accurate. COMING CLEAN: From what I know, at least 2 of the women named as Cruz mistresses by … Read More
Is ISIS On The Ropes?
Don’t look to the Republican presidential candidates for an honest answer to that question. They want ISIS to be flourishing because it gives them a plank to campaign on. But if you look at my tweets, you’ll see that Paris and Belgium are sweeping out the network with arrests, and that the Number 2 ISIS guy was killed, US officials believe. … Read More
When You Don’t Think
The backlash and fallout against North Carolina’s HB2 law continues, and what is getting a lot of attention are pictures and tweets from transgender people like Michael Hughes, a 45-year-old trans man in Rochester, Minn. Take a look at this picture: That’s Michael Hughes and two of his female friends in a womens’ bathroom. Under the new law passed by the … Read More
RIP Garry Shandling
This one hurts. And it is very sudden. TMZ: Comedian Garry Shandling died at an L.A. area hospital on Thursday … TMZ has learned. The 66-year-old star was not suffering from any illness … as far as we know … so, it appears this was sudden. A source connected to Shandling says he was healthy and speaking to people on … Read More
How Can Any Woman Vote For Trump After This?
I get the schtick. Trump tries to get media attention and he usually gets it, provided he is outrageous enough. But the things he does. Oy. This got started when one of those super-PACs, in this case not even one that supports Cruz but just one that opposes Trump, put out a picture of Melania Trump in a semi-naked form. Trump … Read More