Saint of Circumstance

Nice beer glass.

In Rep. Tony Gonzales, Republicans have a sexual predator in their midst who relentlessly pursued a married staffer which ultimately resulted in her suicide, and they refuse to do anything about it because they need his vote.

That is the 2026 Republican Party.

I’m old enough to remember when the Republican Party claimed to stand for the free market and despised government interference with corporate governance.

When you play the game of coups d’état, either you win … or you die in prison.

[Cersei Lannister’s modified statement apparently doesn’t apply in the USA, however.]

“Hi Vlad. It is done.”

MSG on 6/20; may try and add 6/19.

SPAC on 7/3. Would like to go both nights but July 4 weekend and family plans make it unlikely.

Christianity never would have lasted this long if it had chosen to *always* follow the teachings of Christ & to challenge the powerful when their actions were inconsistent with such. Doing so would put a target on their backs. Far easier to compromise their beliefs and curry favor w/the powerful.

If you’re willing to accept cash in exchange for official actions (& thereby demonstrate a total lack of an ethical compass) that sends a message that you are a transactionalist who Donald Trump can “do business with.”

Trump probably heard about the bribery scandal and thought “promote that guy!”

the entire difference between kyle rittenhouse and alex pretti is that kyle rittenhouse was there to shoot people the cops wanted to shoot and alex pretti was there to protect people the cops wanted to shoot

Five concerts you’ve seen with women lead singers:

Lucinda Williams
Joan Osborne
Lake Street Dive
Tedeschi Trucks Band
Della Mae

In other words, the rest of the world is starting to view the US as one of the “bad guys.”

Gee - what a surprise.

Set last night in Albany was great. Enjoy tonight’s show!

“Might” and “among” are doing a lot of unnecessary equivocating in that sentence.

I’m looking at Thursday myself…..

Took my kids to see them at an outdoor concert at Washington Park in Albany when they were little (the kids, not CHB). The kids are now in college, so that’s some perspective on how long ago that was….

Five years ago today, Donald Trump ignited a violent mob to attack the Capitol and disrupt the peaceful transfer of power.

Last year, Donald Trump pardoned over 1,500 of those insurrectionists.

It's an assault on American democracy.

ICYMI: Today, the United States of America, under the direction of a mentally unstable president, attacked Venezuela, a sovereign nation, kidnapped its leader and his wife, and declared they are now running the country.

It’s exactly as insane as it sounds.

The presidency has gone from being a bully pulpit to being a bully's pulpit.

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts.

Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

Interesting stat: he was caught stealing more times (28) than he was successful in stealing (27 SBs).

IIRC, I was on line to buy tickets for that Northern Lights show when it sold out.

If they stay on the freeway, we may have a new holiday song in the works:

“Reindeer Got Run Over By A Grandma.”

I thought I was watching SNL.

If that’s Without A Net for $9.99, that’s probably a better purchase, musically speaking, over Dave’s 44 - a show from the same era as Without A Net (assuming one had neither one).

And a week after the Republican Healthcare Plan!

🔥🔥

If blowing up survivors in the water was the right thing to do because they are “narco-terrorists” (trust us, bro) and deserve no quarter, why did we rescue two other survivors in a different strike, fly them home, and let them go free?

Wait… murdering helpless people floating in the water - even if they were somehow involved in drug smuggling - is good because it helps stem the flow of drugs into America, while pardoning someone convicted of smuggling tons of cocaine into America is also good…. Make it make sense.

Is it the size of a baby raccoon?