Recent Comments

1. about 10 hours ago on Prickly City

   This isn’t about “reducing bureaucracy”, nor is it about fiscal responsibility. Those are red herrings. This is appropriating the levers of government in order to enrich himself and his oligarchs, directly from Putin’s playbook. Musk/trump don’t care how many die or are impoverished, only about amassing power and riches.

2. 1 day ago on Bloom County

   The destruction of USAID has condemned millions to misery, disease and death.

   It’s now patently obvious that the US isn’t a kinder, gentler nation. Nor is it a Christian nation, despite the claims of hypocritical evangelicals who falsely claim the mantle of Christ.

3. 1 day ago on Doonesbury

   The only real question is how many soldiers are going to honor their oath to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.”

4. 1 day ago on F Minus

   The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence". ~ Charles Bukowski.

5. 1 day ago on The Flying McCoys

   We’ll never know, because he’s doing the opposite of curing cancer by destroying the NIH, and with it cancer research.

   What we do know for sure is that his cultists will cheer him on, even as his actions result in the deaths of millions.

6. 1 day ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Turning 70 this year. Seems like our generation might be the one to see how the human race plays out.

7. 1 day ago on Pearls Before Swine

   OTOH, there are an infinite number of podcasts.

8. 1 day ago on Prickly City

   The billionaire’s Private Equity model in a nutshell is to acquire a business enterprise, then siphon off as much money as they can for their own enrichment. The business is then starved of resources, forcing workers to do more & more with less & less until the hollowed out enterprise falls from it’s own weight.

   RH might stick his head in the sand, but this scenario has been and is playing out in every institution from hospital systems to Toys R Us. Breaking things and stripping them down for parts may be a lucrative business model, but it isn’t productive.

9. 4 days ago on Prickly City

   The “business” model in this case would be Twitter. Musk buys it not to provide a better good or service, but to fire people indiscriminately whilst making it more friendly to Nazis (and Putin), and turn it into a fire hose of disinformation to get trump elected. Now he’s doing his best to turn America into the same kind of hell hole.

10. 5 days ago on Non Sequitur

    The question is how anyone could vote for an obvious con man like trump. I believe the answer is that propaganda is very effective on those with poor critical thinking skills. They believed he was a successful businessman because he played one on TV.