Donald Trump’s Worst Deal

The more time I spent in the neighborhood, the more I wondered how the hotel could have been imagined as a viable business. The development was conceived, in 2008, as a high-end apartment building. In 2012, after Donald Trump’s company, the Trump Organization, signed multiple contracts with the Azerbaijani developers behind the project, plans were […]

Cost of hospital gloves: $5,141

Sometimes, Twitter is the perfect platform to counter a powerful person’s b*llshit. Tweeted by Tyler Conway.

Your iPhone or your health

This morning, Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) suggested that the Republicans’ proposed Affordable Care Act replacement would require Americans to “make a choice” in order to pay for health care. “Maybe, rather than getting that new iPhone that they just love and they want to spend hundreds of dollars on, maybe they should invest in their […]

Paragraph of the year

A political post, but how well written is that paragraph? It sums up a lot and says even more in very few words. via John Harris.

He’s a Local Pillar in a Trump Town / Woman deported from UK despite being married to Briton for 27 years

Juan Carlos Hernandez Pacheco — just Carlos to the people of West Frankfort — has been the manager of La Fiesta, a Mexican restaurant in this city of 8,000, for a decade. Yes, he always greeted people warmly at the cheerfully decorated restaurant, known for its beef and chicken fajitas. And, yes, he knew their […]

Podcasts worth checking out

Podcasts have become even more of a common form of entertainment for me recently and so I thought I would recommend a few. If you would like to add yours to the comments, I will post them as a future list so that others can enjoy them as well. Click the titles below to read […]

‘Give Us Your Passwords’

“What sites do you visit? And give us your passwords.” That’s what U.S. Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly wants foreign visitors to hear before they’re allowed to enter the United States. “If they don’t want to give us that information, then they don’t come,” he said, while testifying in front of the House Homeland Security […]

Is Political Difference Biological?

I have sometimes wondered why some people are very right-wing and others very left-wing. Always presumed it came from the way people are brought up and their current position in life. Maybe not though…

Trump Executive Order Generator

This may not be funny for long so try it will you can.

Trial Balloon for a Coup?

The theme of this morning’s news updates from Washington is additional clarity emerging, rather than meaningful changes in the field. But this clarity is enough to give us a sense of what we just saw happen, and why it happened the way it did. I’ll separate what’s below into the raw news reports and analysis; […]