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'Democratic' life began millions of years ago. It died with the first city-states.

Is High Tech now part of the State?

Reflections on the intrepid traveler who has traveled on.

Hansen: If the current La Niña minimum temperature is high, we'll know that global warming has sped up even more.

If the rules that allow this to happen aren’t reversed now, they’ll stay in place for later.

Howie Klein's passing was noted, in concert with others, at the recent Grammy Awards

Voter-Approved By The 77,000,000 by Noah What? The Republican Party's use of the old Ku Klux Klan "America First" slogan in recent years didn't tip you off? Well, guess what, their voters noticed for sure and they voted en masse. They ran to the polls! For those of you who wonder how could so many tens of millions vote for their rancid orange ball of semi-coagulated puss even after his fist term and after his violent coup J6 attempt... I don't know... Maybe everything they sa

A Face Of The Republican Party Moves On To Parts Unknown, For Now. by Noah "Very smart move by President Trump to send Tom Homan to Minnesota." —South Carolina Crackpot Lindsey Graham on the White House move to replace ICE's Gregory Bovine with Tom Homan Yeah, Lindsey, smart move? How? If you want him to round up and deport "undesirables" and criminals, tell Homan he should start with all those trigger happy ICE goons, especially the ones your boy Traitor Don pardoned after t

And do the dead care?

Soulless Conservatives All By Noah "To Americans who are watching this right now, and I don't know, maybe you're watching with curiosity, bewilderment, horror, scorn, or sympathy — I got a question for all of you: What side do you want to be on? The side of an all-powerful federal government that can kill, injure, menace, and kidnap its citizens off the streets? Or on the side of a nurse at the VA hospital who died bearing witness to such government? Or the side of a mo

As If We Didn't Already Know by Noah I slept in late on Saturday morning. It was 10 degrees outside and I'd had a rough day on Friday. What I saw when I checked my news feed didn't make me feel any better. That said, I instantly knew that the psychopaths currently defiling the parts of the White House they haven't torn down were feeling damn good and happy as the news of their latest Minneapolis murder came in. I imagined Traitor Don fielding a congratulatory phone call from

"When I arrived, he was in his element — pretty much in charge of the joint."

If this isn't stopped now, with every oppositional tool elites have at hand, the Trumpian state is confirmed as one of the choices

Your Saturday Cartoon by Noah It's only natural these days to wake up in the morning with all sorts of thoughts about what would make the coming day a very fine day indeed! A lot of people throughout the world now wake up and wonder, "Is he dead, yet?" I have to admit, though, that I am not one of those per se. You see, as you might well imagine, my fantasies about the demise of America's Number One Terrorist are more detailed. I won't be happy if the cholesterol finally does

'They were put in cells reserved for U.S. citizens'

A Simple Compendium Of Memes On The Subject! by Noah Which prize you may ask? Well, if you have to ask then you just might be as insane as Trump or any of his cast of supporting dead-brained goons, all 77,000,000 of them. So, for today, I'm simply offering a collection of handpicked memes that have been circulating since the totally psychopathic idol of the Republican Party literally threatened and browbeat this month's head of Venezuela into handing her Nobel Peace Prize ove

What's right about this solution is also what's wrong

A Picture Worth A Billion Words! by Noah Dateline Washington, DC: At a press gathering in the White House today, Trump Spokeswoman Karoline Himmler announced that the quickly infamous picture of her boss giving the finger to an autoworker at a FORD plant in Michigan earlier this week would now be the official Trump portrait and is already hanging in the White House's newly created Hall Of President Trump. When asked what the Hall Of President Trump is, Ms. Himmler replied, "T

How will the U.S. go down? Gracious? Mature? Or flailingly, breaking the world?

None of what is happening to America should come as a surprise

"Howie Klein was a cultural sleuth who had a knack for recognizing important moments."

"'You see,' Steve Bannon said. 'Goebbels.'"

"He had a positivity, a determination, an intellect, and sense of humor that made him an army of one."