Best Hillary analysis ever
Sady Doyle says she’s “spent much of this year working on a long project on how women are demonized in the media” and Hillary Clinton was naturally part of that.Doyle’s analysis of how the media,...
View ArticleWarmest, least snow winter in recorded history
At least around Albany, NY.I’ve been living here for 60-some years, and do not remember a winter when I did not have to shovel snow.Until now.Temperature records date back to the 1820s. This winter...
View ArticleBernie-booers quieted by Gillibrand, Franken and Silverman
One of the reasons Trump got a poll-bump is that the crowd in Cleveland only booed Cruz, and was otherwise loudly enthusiastic for their candidate.Early on tonight, the PBS talking heads were on about...
View ArticleNY-19: 'Moderate' Republican kisses up to radical Oath Keepers
NY-19 is one of those swing districts that Democrats must win to have any chance of recapturing the House majority. It’s been represented since 2010 by relative moderate (for House Republicans) Chris...
View Article'the most vulgar man I have ever met'
is Trump, of course, according to a fun appreciation of the short-fingered vulgarian by Graydon Carter, who published that moniker dozens of times when he was a founding editor at Spy magazine back in...
View ArticleNY-19: Teachout wins NYT endorsement
NY-19 is one of those swing districts that Democrats must win to have any chance of recapturing the House majority. NY-19 is a Hudson Valley/Catskills district that includes all of Columbia, Delaware,...
View ArticleSay goodbye to state recreational/medical marijuana laws
Though marijuana is still a Schedule 1 illegal drug (which means it allegedly has no medical benefits), 28 states allow for regulated medical use of marijuana, and eight states allow some level of...
View ArticleDid German-Americans voting for one of their own help elect Trump?
It’s a truism of politics here and everywhere that voters will tend to vote for people like themselves.White people tend to vote for white politicians, black people tend to vote for black politicians,...
View ArticleFake news comes in the mail too, as it has for decades
Direct mail has been a money- and rage-raising medium for the right wing for more than 50 years. And unlike RW radio, TV or social media, direct mail mostly flies under the radar, because most of the...
View ArticleEverybody likes Energy Star ratings, except Trump extremists
The EPA Energy Star program which encourages and certifies energy efficient appliances and HVAC systems is, according to this LA Times story, voluntary, cost-effective and “immensely popular.”So...
View ArticleHonoring Confederate traitors, on talk radio in Albany, NY
White supremacy, like racism generally, is not just a Southern thing. As was re-emphasized this morning on WGDJ, a locally owned conservative talk radio station in Albany, NY.Melody Burns spent 30...
View Article'I know a lot about healthcare, you know a lot about healthcare'
Those are two lies in less than one sentence from Trump’s 100-day interview with Sarah Westwood of the Washington Examiner, a further-right-than-the-Moonie Times magazine and website owned by...
View ArticleHistory Channel promotes Lost Cause in Robert E. Lee bio
OK, you get what you pay for — I picked up a DVD for free at the local public library about Robert E. Lee, one of the History Channel’s “Great Commanders.”It’s available to all on Youtube, for free...
View ArticleThe Guardian finds another clueless Trump voter
While we are “Waiting for Godot” for national/international media to do any story about what Hillary voters think about our President*, what Trump voters think about his performance remains endlessly,...
View ArticleA way around Trump's NDAs that will ruin him
Trump has a long history of making most of his employees and contractors sign non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) that are designed to keep his often atrocious conduct secret forever.Trump’s NDAs are...
View ArticleGillibrand shines on '60 Minutes'
“60 Minutes” Correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi did a feature story on NY Senator Kirsten Gillibrand tonight (video and transcript here) which christened her the “#MeToo Senator.”There was some basic bio...
View ArticleDateline NBC's excellent hour about cannabis
Cannabis prohibition is awful for many reasons. Dateline NBC had a full hour tonight about one of them — the federal government has deemed cannabis a Schedule 1 controlled substance (along with heroin,...
View ArticleNY-19: Teachout wins NYT endorsement
NY-19 is one of those swing districts that Democrats must win to have any chance of recapturing the House majority. NY-19 is a Hudson Valley/Catskills district that includes all of Columbia, Delaware,...
View ArticleSay goodbye to state recreational/medical marijuana laws
Though marijuana is still a Schedule 1 illegal drug (which means it allegedly has no medical benefits), 28 states allow for regulated medical use of marijuana, and eight states allow some level of...
View ArticleDid German-Americans voting for one of their own help elect Trump?
It’s a truism of politics here and everywhere that voters will tend to vote for people like themselves.White people tend to vote for white politicians, black people tend to vote for black politicians,...
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