A Canceling in Yountville

by Ugh Folks, it is my unfortunate duty to inform you of the latest victim of cancel culture: yours truly. You see, once upon a time I lived in the Bay Area and had, upon occasion, visited Napa Valley and Sonoma County to partake of the quite exceptional beverage made in an around said parts.  … Read more

The Politics of Personal Projection

by Ugh It continues to amaze me the lengths to which GOPers – whether politicians or their right wing media sycophants (or is it the other way around?) – engage in projection.  Like, anything they accuse Democrats of they have either (i) already done; (ii) are doing; and/or (iii) will do (anticipatory projection?).   Particularly anything … Read more

Would mandated kidney donations be Constitutional?

by Ugh Suppose State X passes a law providing "all individuals meeting the living kidney donor criteria* shall donate one of their kidneys to any discovered matching recipient in need and any individual refusing to donate shall be subject to a sentence of no more than Y years in prison." Such a law would be … Read more

No Mo’ Roe

by Ugh* Are we the dog that caught the car or is it on to Griswold, Loving, Obergefell, Lawrence, Baker…. This seems most unfortunate. *I've decided my best approach to post-2016 POTUS election life is to bury my head in the sand as much as possible, hence I've not been around much, if at all.  … Read more

We are all the Corvid-19 Now

by Ugh The U.S. border is like a hermetically sealed emergency room with full body hand purifiers, UV rays, flame throwers, exposure to the vacuum of space and Trump's hair regimen, which kills off Corvid-19.  Thank you, Mr. President. And yet, VP and Dr. Mike Pence is in charge of the U.S. response, so, we're … Read more

Jeepers Jiminy Cricket on a Dad Gum Popsicle Stick!

by Ugh The number of Ivy League educated representatives of the "common man*" in the FoxNews-esque-extended-Marvel-universe-social-media-ecosphere bothers me.  I mean, really? They aren't necessarily mutually exclusive, but hey! If I've got an "R" after my name I must therefore speak for Midwestern farmers while sipping (drinking?) a 1945 bottle of Domaine de la RomanĂ©e-Conti RomanĂ©e-Conti … Read more