Monthly Archives: May 2018

Trump fixer met with Russian oligarch

What do you know? It seems that Michael Cohen met with the Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg, in Trump Tower, a mere 11-days before the inauguration. Eleven days before the presidential inauguration last year, a billionaire Russian businessman with ties to … Continue reading

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Quote for the day

Fascism welcomes our attempts to play logical ‘gotcha’ with its inconsistencies because it knows we will lose — not because we won’t find a fallacy but because the fallacy won’t matter. Erik Hane Just so. The talking-snake crowd doesn’t care … Continue reading

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Out of Decadence

I won’t deny that I’m enjoying the hand-wringing that has overtaken the Southern Baptist Convention as it faces multiple complaints of sexual abuse by its pastors, public pressure forces the removal of Paige Patterson from the presidency of Southwestern Baptist … Continue reading

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The Buffoon-in-Chief: Played again

The White House says Trump-Kim summit will not happen due to "open hostility" in North Korea's recent statement https://t.co/7tdC8QRpcV pic.twitter.com/8vnWnNCg1D — CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) May 24, 2018 The bald fact that The Donald agreed to meet with Kim Jong-Un … Continue reading

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Revisit the death penalty

A letter in today’s edition of the New York Times revisits something I’ve mentioned in the past: The American judicial system cannot be trusted to reliably decide who lives and dies, and for that reason the evidential bar must be … Continue reading

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