The Current Situation

U.S. presidents and their dogs

Is it possible to neuter a dog twice? It certainly appears to have happened to the bitch in the lower…

6 years ago

The U.S. isn’t the only country with jus soli, a.k.a. birthright citizenship

Just about every country in the Americas offers birthright citizenship, a.k.a. jus soli. A certain president* who had trouble disavowing…

8 years ago

Tomorrow is Tax Day!

The reason why Tax Day falls on April 17th this year Tomorrow is Tax Day in the United States: the…

8 years ago

Tallahassee mayor and Florida gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum at Café con Tampa

Someday, perhaps a decade from now, when we’re all looking back at how far the Tampa Bay area has come,…

8 years ago

If you need a reason to be FOR net neutrality, just look at who’s AGAINST it

If you’re a regular reader of this blog, chances are that you’ve seen a lot of arguments made by well-known,…

8 years ago

I had to disavow the Nazis. Why can’t the president?

That’s me on the right, on Thursday, January 26, 2017, celebrating the acquisition of my permanent resident status in the…

9 years ago

Don’t know much about history…

Not all of us (myself included) were schooled in the United States, so you may have heard Donald Trump’s reference to Andrew…

9 years ago

That really happened: Putin orders crackdown on fake booze after dozens of Russians die from drinking bath lotion

Siberian Times photo. Click to see the source. 75 people have been reported dead in the Siberian city of Irktusk…

9 years ago

My take on last night’s election results

I moved from Canada for her... ...and I’m staying for the same reason. My plan for these soon-to-be interesting times is simple:…

9 years ago

First they came for the journalists… (or: A t-shirt from today’s Trump rally in Minnesota)

"Rope. Tree. Journalist." shirt spotted at @realDonaldTrump rally in MN _ Reuters photo by Jonathan Ernst pic.twitter.com/1VTkYPOOVo— Michael Biesecker (@mbieseck)…

9 years ago