The past few days have been absolutely fucking nuts. Donald Trump promised to defund Social Security and Medicare if reelected, accelerated his work to destroy the U.S. Postal Service in advance of the 2020 election, and once again claimed wrongly that it was him, and not Barack Obama, who signed “Vetrans Choice” into law. Oh […]
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Trump promises to permanently eliminate the funding mechanism for Social Security and Medicare if reelected
Posted in Health, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged Affordable Care Act, bathtub, Ben Sasse, Bernie Sanders, Delivering Government Solutions in the 21st Century, Donald Trump, eviction, executive actions, executive orders, Grover Norquist, Joe Biden, masks, Medicare, Nancy Pelosi, New Deal, Obamacare, payroll tax, post office, preexisting conditions, small government, social security, taking credit for things you didn't do, tax cuts, tax policy, taxes, The Lord, unconstitutional, United States Postal Service, Vetrans Choice, vote by mail 184 Comments
Ypsilanti on Labor Day
I’d wanted to write an epic post about the meaning of Labor Day, but then I read Paul Krugman’s piece in today’s New York Times, realized that he’d done a better job of it than I could ever hope to, and decided to spend my time instead wondering around Ypsilanti with my camera. What follows […]
Posted in History, Photographs, Special Projects, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged 1894, A Day in the Life of Ypsilanti, Arlo, cicadas, Eric Cantor, ferret, frat boys, Grover Cleveland, Huron River, Labor Day, missing pets, Pullman strike, working class, yarn bombing 9 Comments
Ann Curry forced by Matt Lauer to interact with crazy people cradling what appear to be dead babies
Generally speaking, I’d rather watch the elderly practice ballroom dancing at the gym than turn my attention to the overhead television, which is invariably tuned to the Today Show. I made an exception this morning, though, as the happy gang of falsely-laughing, purveyors of faux-news were “reporting” on their network’s most recent stunt-casting coup. (Apparently, […]
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Ann Curry, babies, dead babies, dead kids, insane people, Matt Lauer, morning news, Paul Ryan, Reborn Dolls, Sarah Palin, Today Show 20 Comments