President Obama gave the commencement address at Howard University a few days ago and proved that he is still one helluva speaker. During one extended section, he spoke to the historically-black school’s students about what they can do to help shape our collective future — vote: You have to go through life with more than […]
Republican senator John Thune of South Dakota is upset about a story in Gizmodo claiming that Facebook has been censoring the news in its “trending” topic section, purportedly deleting stories with a conservative bent. So Thune is using the power of his office to demand that Facebook explain itself. Except that he has no such […]
The Associated Press says 63% of Americans do not believe in UFOs. In reporting this at FiveThirtyEight, Walt Hickey added: Hillary Clinton is apparently not among that number, and she has promised to open up government files on UFOs if elected president. “There’s enough stories out there that I don’t think everybody is just sitting […]
If we still ran the USA the way they did in the 1790s, Donald Trump would be on his way to becoming our Vice President. Up until 1800, that position was filled by whoever came in second in the presidential election. So, John Adams served under George Washington. Next, Thomas Jefferson was veep for Adams. […]
When people talk about the presidential election, they often quote polls showing how their candidate will win. But national polls mean nothing, because we don’t elect presidents by popular vote. We still use the creaky electoral college method which, while long overdue for trashing, means you have to look at the candidates’ opportunities on a […]
I was downtown last night, drove by The Dome, and noticed that it still has signs outside exhorting people to buy St. Louis Rams tickets. I’m sure someone will get around to taking them down any month now. I was going to write a post about Larry Wilmore’s performance at the White House Correspondents Dinner, […]