Year: 2016
How To Win the Big Powerball Drawing!!!
There’s only about a dozen hours left to buy Powerball lottery tickets before the big drawing Wednesday evening. As I write this, the estimated jackpot prize is $1.4 billion dollars, making it the largest jackpot in the history of the game. And because I love my readers so much, I’m going to tell you how… Read more
David Bowie 1947 – 2016
So David Bowie died last night. I’ve been watching the word break across Twitter. Reactions from everyone — from sex workers to Weird Al to Elon Musk. Until today, I only half-believed that #DavidBowie really existed. He made more sense as a legend weird kids made up to make us all braver. — Laurie Penny… Read more
Oregon Under Attack — A Modest Proposal
So far the authorities in Oregon are handling the occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge headquarters pretty well. They seem to be following a low-conflict approach rather than letting their egos get in the way, so the standoff hasn’t erupted into violence. That kind of low-conflict approach had helped to end an earlier standoff… Read more
Does It Matter If the Oregon Standoff is Terrorism?
A bunch of armed white guys have taken over a building in a wildlife refuge in Oregon, and liberal Twitter is going a little nuts because the media isn’t calling it “terrorism.” https://twitter.com/stephenlautens/status/684024214551179264 https://twitter.com/MattNowak1/status/683742021681455104 Did I miss the call for the national guard in Oregon? I recall them in Ferguson and Baltimore. #OregonUnderAttack — rolandsmartin… Read more
Don’t Let the Tamir Rice Grand Jury Distract From the Goal
It’s been over a year since Cleveland police officer Timothy Loehmann shot and killed 12-year old Tamir Rice, and now a Cuyahoga County grand jury has decided not to indict him for it, thus proving that grand juries will also let the ham sandwich walk, if that’s what the prosecutor wants. Make no mistake, this… Read more