There is a national teacher shortage in the United States and just because you're only hearing about it now doesn't mean it's new. Teachers have been leaving the profession for years, it was only exacerbated by COVID and the politicization from the GOP that followed. States and school districts are getting creative in handling the... Continue Reading →
Roughs, Volume 150
First off, a shoutout to WordPress which is the platform for this blog (the domain is through GoDaddy). Dear WordPress, all the changes you've enacted, what you call "updates," over the past year have really made it cumbersome when I need to insert multiple images. So when my readers complain to me about some WordPress... Continue Reading →
87,000 Conspiracy Theories
Sometimes I'm asked by people in the real world (like in person and not on social media), "why are you a liberal?". I'll also occasionally get, "Why can't you be conservative?". The reason I'm a liberal and I can't be a conservative is for several reasons. I don't think cruelty is funny. I have empathy.... Continue Reading →
Bibbidi Bobbidy Hamberder
Either Donald Trump is a dumbass and doesn't know how the president declassifies information, despite being president (sic), or he's lying. Obviously, it's both. He's a lying dumbass. There's a talking point among MAGAts that Donald Trump had a standing order while he was president (sic) that any document brought from the Oval Office to... Continue Reading →
Pence and the FB-Fly
For only the second time in his life, Mike Pence committed a noble act and called on his Republican Party to stop attacking the FBI. But I think Mike Pence forgets this is the same party that called for his hanging after he committed the first noble act of his life. When Mike Pence refused... Continue Reading →
President Precedent
Here’s your cartoon for this week’s CNN Opinion newsletter. Please sign up to get these in your inbox every Sunday. Is Donald Trump the kind of guy who would sell classified secrets, even nuclear secrets, to foreign adversaries? Well, he's the kind of guy who'd ask Russia to help him win an election. He's the kind of... Continue Reading →
Banana Rudy
Rudy is in extreme danger of serving the rest of his life in prison and he's probably too obnoxious and narcissistic to realize it. Rudy used to put people in prison. In fact, he was damn good at it. It was his reputation for putting mobsters behind bars that got him elected as New York... Continue Reading →
Treasonous Squirrels
While I don't believe the raid on Mar-a-Lago was an intentional distraction, it can serve as one. Maybe that shitty thing will distract voters from all the other shitty things Republicans do. Maybe the revelation that Donald Trump is a traitor to this nation and only cares about himself...OK, a reminder that Donald Trump is... Continue Reading →
Hating On The FBI
Elected officials from city councils to the presidency are supposed to represent their entire constituencies, whether they voted for them or not. A president should be president even to those who hate him. Donald Trump has only represented one constituency, angry racist white people. He doesn't give a rat's ass about anyone else, and quite... Continue Reading →
Fun With Espionage
Didn't we all pretty much expect it to come down to treason? I mean, unless you're in the orange cult, you saw this coming from 600 miles away. You may be surprised that it actually happened, but you still saw it coming. My one hope is that this doesn't wind up like the Mueller investigation.... Continue Reading →