Have You Now, or Have You Ever Been, a Secret Agent of Vladimir Putin?
Submitted by ZimInSeattle on Mon, 03/06/2017 - 7:03amThis essay is absolutely outstanding. It completely destroys the normalization of the police state, the ‘Russian’s did it’ meme, and American Exceptionalism in general. Please read the whole thing.
March 6, 2017 Open Thread; European Day of the Righteous
Submitted by enhydra lutris on Mon, 03/06/2017 - 5:00am
March 6 is the 65th day of the year. There are 300 days left.
Today's number is 6
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6 is the sum of its proper divisors (1, 2, & 3), which makes it a perfect number. It is the smallest perfect number,
Do you know what Redacted Donkeys are?
Submitted by mimi on Mon, 03/06/2017 - 3:23amGood Morning, America.
They are Trump's greatest allies. So says The Hedges man. You can see the Redacted Donkey here and read about them too.
Robot Love: love for people who don't do well with other people
Submitted by Alligator Ed on Mon, 03/06/2017 - 2:46amSince I filled my daily quota for Today's Humor, I came across this interesting bit.
Obama Wins JFK Profile in Courage Award for being a Nice Warmonger
Submitted by Big Al on Sun, 03/05/2017 - 8:58pmObama has done it again, winning an award for COURAGE!
Faith-based hospital torturing transgender child
Submitted by Robyn on Sun, 03/05/2017 - 6:32pmKathy Blazer-Williams wrote that a five-year-old trans girl named Stevie, with a host of medical issues, is not only being kept from her parents by a faith-based hospital, but is being forced to live as a male, the sex she was assigned at birth.
Today's Humor (3/5/17): more Nancy Pelosi fun
Submitted by Alligator Ed on Sun, 03/05/2017 - 5:25pmNancy is like Medusa's emails: a gift that keeps on giving. Why do I pick on Nancy so much? Because she's there and so hard to resist. With prodding from Jake Tapper, of all people, NP remembers that yes indeed she did meet with Russians including the ambassador in 2010. But that was okay because other legislators did it too--so therefore it MUST be legal--because she said so.
Wherein I do Tom Perez Part 2
Submitted by HenryAWallace on Sun, 03/05/2017 - 4:36pmPart 1 (http://caucus99percent.com/content/wherein-i-do-tom-perez-part-1) included this information about Tom "Don't Call Me Tom" Perez:
Electrons and Photons and Black Holes, oh my!
Submitted by PriceRip on Sun, 03/05/2017 - 4:29pmThe universe is a simple place. It is filled with a large number of clones of a very small number of entities that interact in a limited number of ways as defined by Feynman. No free will, no exceptions. It is all so very elementary, my dear Watson.