I suppose if you could go back in time, and ask someone in the year 1915 “Is Gender Mutable?”, they would say something like “I think this kid Baby Ruth who is pitching for the Red Sox won’t amount to much. Now what was your question?” Seriously, though. They would look at you strangely and say “Uh, no. Boys are … Read More
Will America’s Uninsured Rate Go To Single Digits?
No major survey has ever found that the uninsured rate in America has hit single digits. Ever. But a new survey from the Urban Institute’s Health Reform Monitoring Survey, a quarterly survey of non-elderly Americans, says that 10.0% of nonelderly adults were uninsured. That’s down from 17.8% in September 2013, before the Affordable Care Act’s insurance exchanges first launched. And in fact, … Read More
King Combover Clown Enters Clown Car
The GOP presidential race got much much funner yesterday, as Trump threw his hairpiece into the ring. Trump‘s announcement speech was a strange amalgam of thinly-veiled bigotry (Mexican immigrants “bringing drugs, bringing crime, they’re rapists, and some, I assume, are good people”), fear-mongering (Iran is taking over Iraq “and they’re taking it over bigly”), and self-promotion (“I beat China all the … Read More
The Pope Goes Severe Against Climate Deniers
Pope Francis this week is going to come out for changes in lifestyles and energy consumption to avert the “unprecedented destruction of the ecosystem” before the end of this century, He will warn that failure to act would have “grave consequences for all of us.” Pretty severe verbiage. It all comes from a draft document leaked to the Italian press and … Read More
Palin Word Salad Of The Day
The Great Pundit takes on Rachel Dolezal, the white woman who pretended to be black, who headed up the Spokane chapter of the NAACP. Let’s see how far we can wade in before we get tangled and swallowed: Ok, I’m sorry. I shouldn’t laugh… this hard. I know this isn’t a victimless crime, what this white chick perpetrated. But it’s … Read More
Jeb Bush Officially Enters 2016 Race Today
He’s the 11th candidate to throw his hat in the ring,. but he’s the GOP frontrunner. Last week, Bush unveiled a raft of endorsements from Florida pols, including 11 of the 17 Republicans in the state’s U.S. House delegation. Normally, home-state endorsements are pro forma, but with a fellow Floridian (Sen. Marco Rubio) in the race, these endorsements are a … Read More
Update To Earlier Story
Breaking: Rachel Dolezal, the NAACP chapter president who was accused of pretending to be black, said Monday that she would step down. (see earlier post) [fb_embed_post href=”https://www.facebook.com/spokane.naacp/posts/1623781377868883/” width=”550″/] Too bad. She seemed like an effective leader. It probably wasn’t the “crime” of pretending to be black; it was probably the cover-up (saying that she was actually black).
Why I Still Can’t Get 100% Behind Snowden
Whistleblowing is good. Whistleblowing is important. It is important that we know what the government is doing regarding our communications and the impact on our privacy rights. I am happy for the debate, and I thank Edward Snowden for it. But then there is this: Britain has pulled out agents from live operations in “hostile countries” after Russia and China … Read More
NC Shark Attacks
I don’t like writing about shark attacks because I am old enough to remember the summer of 2001, where the BIG neverending news story was the number of shark attacks, or near-shark-attacks that were happening. On September 4, 2001, for example, a man was killed and his girlfriend critically injured off the NC beaches, by a shark. Those news stories … Read More
RIP Iowa Straw Poll
It’s official (per Jennifer Jacobs of the Des Moines Register): The governing board for the Republican Party of Iowa voted unanimously Friday to cancel the straw poll, a milestone on the path to the White House that had passed the strategic tipping point. It was no longer a political risk for presidential campaigns to walk away from the straw poll, … Read More
Gay Marriage Leads To Divorce
You know that silly argument that same-sex marriage harms the institution of marriage? Pretty dumb, right? What do they think is going to happen? If gay people get married, straight married couples will get divorced??? LOL!!! Well, actually, not so LOL. Gay marriage could in fact lead to divorce among straight couples. Or rather, one straight couple. Who are being total dicks … Read More
A Prediction
The same people who complain that Hillary Clinton is not making herself available to the press will one day complain about “Clinton fatigue” and blame her for the fact that the mainstream media is always talking about her.
Some Good News In The Tamir Race Murder
A judge in Cleveland has ruled that there’s probable cause to charge two officers involved in the November 2014 shooting death of Tamir Rice. In response to a petition from citizens, under an obscure and little-used provision of Ohio law, Municipal Court Judge Ronald Adrine agreed that Officer Timothy Loehmann should be charged with several crimes, the most serious of … Read More
Black Like Me?
Rachel Dolezal has been a leader in the Spokane (Washington) chapter of the NAACP for many years. Having previously worked as the education director for the Human Rights Education Institute in Coeur d’Alene, Dolezal is credited for re-energizing the NAACP chapter. She is not just president of her local NAACP chapter; she is also an academic expert on African-American culture and teaches many … Read More