Recent Comments

1. about 6 hours ago on Clay Jones

   I think that Cracker Barrel had a tiff about racism or some kind of employee relations difficulty. There is also the pejorative meaning of the word “cracker” to consider. Everybody gets a burr under his or her tail once in a while. That fact and the perversion of the 2nd amendment are why it’s so “easy for [Americans] to make a killing.” Better (verbally) to blow off steam than heads.

2. about 7 hours ago on Clay Jones

   Perhaps neither of us the fits your apparent definition of the R/D mold. Except for abortion, I generally concur with your stated positions. I do excoriate the GOP’s positions, and their proponents, on most issues; they richly deserve it. But I also try to limit — or at least quality — vitriol directed at private individuals, particularly those whom I don’t know. I haven’t walked in their shoes; I can’t KNOW why folks, right or left, are as close-minded as they seem to be. Politicians and right-wing political cartoonists, by contrast, deserve all the calumny that, what I would term open-minded folks (rather than “leftists like deadbrain,” or something of the sort), can heap on their heads, I think.

3. about 9 hours ago on Henry Payne

   Rim shot of a cartoon Payne inflicts on us. At least we don’t have to see HK in Payne’s puerile attempt at drawing a car.

4. about 9 hours ago on Pedro X. Molina

   I expect that Israel will take off the kid gloves if and when all the hostages are returned. The Hamas leaders know this all too well.

5. about 9 hours ago on Mike Lester

   Indignation knows no bounds for right-wingers, especially when they can couple it with their penchant for hypocrisy.

6. about 9 hours ago on Matt Davies

   70 million MAGA folks don’t see anything wrong with Trump. That’s not enough — unless he reels in the independents. Or the 3rd party second bananas give the laurels to Trump by default.

7. about 9 hours ago on Bill Bramhall

   But he was savvy, too. Sometimes that seems to have worked out OK. I have thought of Edward Teller and Kissinger as peas in a pod — as regards cleverness, expediency, and pragmatism. One “gave” the world “The Super” and the other skewered the powerless which he didn’t like.

8. about 10 hours ago on Clay Jones

   Abbott seems to be both a liar and a hypocrite, and, possibly an unconvicted felon. But then Abbott is a Republican. Lying and hypocrisy seem to be de rigueur if one is a Republican. Yea, verily, those attributes seem to be required for Republicans, if experience and history since the late 1870’s have any weight. Extra points for felony, daily double points if one escapes conviction.

9. about 10 hours ago on Clay Jones

   re: “Yeah, you admit your mistakes but you don’t admit your lies.”

   I’d opine that DC does admit his mistakes. Sometimes. But only when someone else catches them, and then calls DC out for them. I’d further opine that DC MIGHT fail once in a while to correct his own mistakes without being called on them. As for the lies, perhaps they must be left to speak for themselves. It would also SEEM that DC considers anyone politically and socially to the left of Donald Trump, and his ilk, to be a “leftie.” (I might well be wrong in that notion — I only know DC through these comments.) Well, I guess that’s his right. I have a uncle who was a truck driver for decades before he retired; he once (about 30 years ago) referred to Texas as looking “like something that fell out of a tall cow’s [orifice that terminates her alimentary canal].” (GC’s language nanny prohibits the word he actually used.)

10. about 18 hours ago on Clay Jones

    My point was that Adams in NYC, and leaders in a few other locales, such as CA, have found themselves burdened with an influx of foreign nationals thanks to the machinations of Abbott and DeSantis who have transported them to those destinations under false — not to say fraudulent and illegal — promises of job availability among other benefits.

    It would seem that if border “encounters” have increased, then that would result in more arrests and repatriations, as well as more admissions and “gotaways.” Perhaps the better question to ask is whether the greater number of people remaining in the US, including “gotaways,” is proportional to the greater number of “encounters.” I think that it’s generally the case that “encounters” and deportations have increased under the Biden administration over Trump’s. Ultimately, people try to get into the US because of the conditions they live under in their own countries: war, poverty, violence, unemployment, and the like. Were things different there, they would stay. To some degree, conditions have gotten far worse in those countries during the past decades and drive emigration. Venezuela, Chile, Haiti, Colombia, Cuba, the Philippines, and Honduras are only a few such countries. I expect that if you were in the same place as many, the majority, of these so-called “illegals”, then you would be open to taking your chances at immigration, too.

    The illegal drug trade exists because there is an unquenchable demand for illegal drugs in the US. Further, the drug kingpins are not the carriers transporting drugs across the southern borders or into the estuaries in Florida. Those kingpins are those running the cartels in China, Mexico, the Middle East, and elsewhere; they exist and operate successfully only because of the demand for drugs and the money it brings to them. Nothing sucks like cash.