Recent Comments

1. about 21 hours ago on Steve Breen

   It’s a minor issue due to the relative having been a Senator for 50 years, and VP for 8. But it doesn’t seem to rise above and beyond the usual level of corruption most politicians employ, other than republicans control the US House, which has the power of investigation into Democrats

2. about 21 hours ago on Clay Bennett

   Did they actually get him, though? He’s still out of jail, and NOT awaiting trial.

3. about 21 hours ago on Tank McNamara

   Today’s “high rent area” is next decade’s “affordable housing”. The housing needs to be built, and it’s the only thing in this economy that actually “trickles down”

4. about 21 hours ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Mass shootings are so common now, they don’t even make the news anymore

5. about 21 hours ago on Ripley's Believe It or Not

   In some parts of the Oregon Trail there is only one rut. That’s the moment that Jesus took the wheel.

6. about 22 hours ago on Ted Rall

   People got a check once per month from the government. It wasn’t cash money, but it was still money. From the government. Directly to people.

7. about 22 hours ago on The Boondocks

   I remember as a kid being told that the USSR forbid photography of bridges and government buildings, and after 9/11 we’ve become the totalitarian state we always claimed we would never be.

8. about 22 hours ago on Jeff Danziger

   In that case, go do whatever it is old people do these days and leave the internet stuff to people who understand the concepts.

9. 2 days ago on Jeff Danziger

   There’s a difference between banning an app on government devices (a good idea no matter who makes it), and banning an app because you don’t want people to have the world’s most popular social media app, which is in direct competition with US-based apps, and kicking the US-based behinds up and down the internet

10. 2 days ago on Jeff Danziger

    The Patriot Act was passed in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, which gave the US federal government unprecedented (and almost unlimited) powers to collect individual data from all people in the US, sometimes without requiring a warrant first.