Joke Of The Day

As seen on Reddit… Scientists recently did a study on the effects the right side and left side of a brain had on counting. They first took out the left half of a man’s brain and asked him to count to 10. He said, “2, 4, 6, 8, 10”. They put the left half back […]

Best Thing I’ve Read Today

Drew Magary thinks Donald Trump wants to lose a contested convention: You don’t need to be some insane truther to believe that Trump’s entire campaign was a publicity stunt that has spiraled out of control. One of his former strategists has said as much. That crummy ground game of his? Not only is it a […]

Bernie

Despite being Hillary Clinton’s friend of 50 years and former Labor Secretary under Bill Clinton, Robert Reich is a big supporter of Bernie Sanders. In the video above, he counters half a dozen arguments made by Sanders skeptics. I think Reich is wrong on two points. First, it’s rarely valid to put faith in any […]

Will Durst On Trump

The latest from my friend Will Durst… Go ahead, exhale a deep sigh of relief because our long national nightmare could very well be over. Yes, dear friends, Donald Trump might have bitten off more than he can chew and we may be mere moments away from combing him out of our hair for good. […]

A Better Way To Fight Voter ID Laws

Here’s a piece I wrote four years ago that, unfortunately, is still highly relevant today. There’s been a lot of chatter again this election year about voter ID laws. Despite a complete lack of evidence of fraud at the ballot-box, Republican legislatures in several states have rammed through laws requiring that every voter show a […]