Two murders, right next to the Vermont Supreme Court the other night.

Every Republican president since I have become an adult has said we need no more wars in the Middle East. Every one has started one. And each of those wars has had a heavy economic, diplomatic, and human toll.

Bravo, Spain!

Life right now.

God I hope this is true.

Srsly they need to bring back Pimp My Ride it is about the only thing that can restore our sense of hope

-2 F but the light is warm.

Yes NATO. No Pedo.

NEW VIDEO: this appears to be the footage from the woman in the pink coat.

Our moment in history: I was scheduled to be on MSNBC this morning at 12:45 discussing the dystopian novel Brave New World — but the segment was bumped at the last minute (as you can imagine) by the shooting in Minneapolis — a dystopian situation that’s still unfolding. (1/2)

Town hall.

Skiing in a gray country.

America looks so stupid to the rest of the world, right now. If it weren't for the mass shootings, they'd probably think there were no schools here.

“If more people don’t start committing hara-kiri soon, the market for our hara-kiri blades will collapse, warns ritual hara-kiri blade maker.”

Just a reminder that the NRA backed stricter gun laws in the 1960s and 1970s in response to the arming of the Black Panthers. When it was black people owning guns to defend their freedom, it suddenly didn’t seem like such a great idea to the NRA.

“The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.” –The Federalist Papers, Number 47

Putin’s useful idiots are hard at work.

Here’s the poem of Renee Nicole Good’s — murdered in broad daylight yesterday by a masked thug — that won the 2020 Academy of Poets Prize. poets.org/2020-on-lear...

Stephen Miller: “We live in a world, in the real world … that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power.” What strongman dictator actually succeeds at that game? Stalin, prone in a puddle of his own piss for twenty hours as he died? Lavrenty Beria, his chief (1/2)

Holiday’s over. Back to work you bastards.

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

Happy New Year! May 2026 be full of pleasant surprises!

Christmas Eve in a church with no heat or electricity — in which our town fathers, two hundred years ago, gathered for the end of the world. (They were disappointed when it continued.)

Funny because this looks just like the old opening credits to Dr. Who. And yet it really is a voyage through time.