This Friday In Review

This Friday In Review

News: The government shutdown ends, Roger Stone has a tattoo of Nixon on his back (and has been indicted by the special counsel), and some positive baseball news.

Gimme Filter

Gimme Filter

A very thoroughly footnoted argument against The Rolling Stones current tour, with some thoughts on Nostalgia along the way

TCB

TCB

On this day 83-years ago Elvis Aron Presley was born. Thank God for that.

A Factual Relief

A Factual Relief

Released from the tyranny of facts contrarians insist upon, we as a people are now liberated to soar to new heights. Ideally those heights will be located atop a giant cement wall.

The Emperor’s New Tomato Ketchup

The Emperor’s New Tomato Ketchup

That there was a convoy of murderers and rapists who wanted the Heinz ketchup—The Emperor could understand. He could commiserate, for he himself enjoyed the Heinz Ketchup. He was not without feeling, The Emperor. Push him far enough he too might murder for the Heinz ketchup. He didn’t require threats to his ketchup to rape.

Are we this?

Are we this?

A response to the op-ed recently penned in the Times by an anonymous Trump administration official