"This was the voice of moderation until 13 Sept, 2025"
by liberal japonicus Maybe I’m reaching for a cute headline, but that’s what seems to have happened. A cursory reading suggests that they compared the DNA they had with DNA profiles on genealogical sites to get a familial match. The article references the Grim Sleeper case. On July 7, 2010, the Los Angeles Times reported … Read more
by russell My wife and I had dinner with a friend recently. She was talking about the conflicts she feels as a liberal living in the SF bay area. One thing she discussed was the more or less unconscious bias she often experiences when she interacts with black and brown people. Especially black and brown … Read more
by JanieM Three weeks ago I wrote that it wasn’t going to be an especially late ice-off this year. In a post about unpredictability, I hazarded a prediction. Here’s the view from the town beach this afternoon: It’s usually at least a few days from the time when the ice starts to break up into … Read more
by Ugh While there's a lot of norm breaking, rampant corruption, and likely a fair bit of criminality, Trump still has a ways to go before he reaches the truly great heights of horribleness that was the W administration. Hundreds of thousands of unnecessarily dead people, for example, plus torture and a number of other … Read more
by wj The big news this week appears to center around Michael Cohen, James Comey, and the usual political soap opera that our country seems to have become. But there is something else of interest going on — something which will actually have a noticable impact on most of us. Today, the Supreme Court heard … Read more
by Ugh So I won't have fraud and noted stupid spineless squish Paul Ryan to kick around any longer. So sad, so sad. I'm sure he will go on to that great K Street suite in the sky. But I will miss his ability to gracefully and with strangely weird-eyed aplomb sh1t on the poor, … Read more
by Ugh In light of another apparent chemical attack by the Assad regime in Syria, the world turns its eyes to Japan and asks what will its government do in light of the most recent atrocity. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Sunday promised a “big price” to be paid. In a tweet, Mr. Abe laid … Read more
by JanieM A friend of mine bought her five-year-old a stuffed animal on Amazon. Almost as soon as it arrived, one of the legs came off. She wrote to the seller to report the problem and got this reply: Hello friend Thanks for your order in our store. The sheep is made from cotton. We … Read more
by JanieM I live across the road from the northern end of a lake that’s about five miles long, maybe a mile wide at its widest, over a hundred feet deep in spots. The lake is a year-round playground: swimming, fishing, jet-skiing, a bit of water-skiing in the summer; snowmobiling and ice fishing in the … Read more