The current (August 17/24) issue of The Nation magazine has a good article by Ari Berman titled “The Voting-Rights Counterrevolution” (link). It’s excerpted and adapted from Berman’s recent book, Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in … Continue reading
Political commentators Jackie Broyles and Dunlap (in real life Travis Harmon and Jonathan Shockley) review this past Thursday’s two GOP debates in Cleveland, or as Dunlap puts it, the losers’ debate and the winners’ debate (total running time 6 minutes, … Continue reading
From Laina: Link: https://youtu.be/NOwk68FZ2uY by … Continue reading
Remember Hitchbot, the hitchhiking robot mentioned in a previous post? A few days ago it was vandalized in Philadelphia and its creators, a couple of professors in Canada, have decided it is damaged beyond repair. Meanwhile, an unlikely “surveillance video” … Continue reading
A lot of doctors favor tort reform — limiting patients’ right to sue — as a way to reduce the cost of malpractice insurance. There’s also a tendency to order unnecessary tests to cover themselves in the event they are … Continue reading
I’m not a particular fan of former pro wrestler and former Minnesota governor Jesse Ventura, but in this clip he has some interesting responses to recent comments from Republican presidential candidates. Ventura’s language may offend some, and his replies aren’t … Continue reading
As I keep saying, John Oliver, host of HBO’s Last Week Tonight, is a national treasure. Last Sunday he and the show’s staff did yet another excellent exposé, this one on the stupidity of giving vast amounts of unneeded welfare … Continue reading
Dr Aaron Carroll summarizes some three recent bits of medical news in the following video (which runs only about 4 1/2 minutes): Link: https://youtu.be/BEwE1RHHXFs Carroll, a pediatrician, notes that while a recent survey show some reduction in childhood exposure to violence, crime, and abuse, … Continue reading
One more thing about the politics of the historic June 26 Supreme Court decision and then I’ll try to shut up about it for a while: By early May of this year, several weeks before the Supreme Court decision, Gallup … Continue reading
It’s disturbing to realized that after making his recent stupid and offensive remarks about Mexicans, Donald Trump actually went up in polls of GOP voters and is near the top of the field. But we should remember that there are … Continue reading