"We shouldn't shoot THIS grizzly bear that's breaking through our door because there MAY be another one that we'll need to shoot."

"self check-out". It is not a matter of being intimidated by it or being "bamboozled" by the "newfangled" technology.

Self check-out lanes are just another way that Walmart and other big-box stores can cut costs by eliminating more of those real flesh and blood cashiers. The machines don't ever call in sick, complain about hours or ask for vacation time. They also don't smile or ask if you found everything you needed.

Every self check-out lane means one less paycheck for someone in my community who needs it. I refuse to condone this blood-thirsty capitalism and I loudly explain the above each time I'm waiting in a checkout line and a manager cheerfully points out that "there are self check-outs available!"

If I am a dinosaur, my name is "Liberalosaurus".

we have no reason.

Remember---a conservative is someone who believes nothing should ever be done for the first time.

Vaccinations stall out somewhere in the 55% range and herd immunity is not achieved before autumn. Schools resume, employees return to offices and stores, restaurants and bars are again packed as the nation returns to "business as usual".

And, just a trickle of the Delta variant cases becomes a stream which becomes a flood which becomes a tsunami. And, somewhere amongst the millions of anti vaxxers, a new super-variant emerges and---NONE of the vaccines we responsible citizens thought had made us "safe" are effective against it. It is dubbed the OWN variant--Our Worst Nightmare.

And, tens of millions die because we as a people lacked the backbone to REQUIRE the anti-vax wackos to roll up their sleeves and get the damn shot!

I sincerely hope this post looks totally ridiculous two years hence.

of that term in either chamber LISTENS to a proposal---regardless which party is making it---and CONSIDERS it before responding "for" or "against". And, it is entirely appropriate---if one seriously aspires to even a pinch of respect---to explain WHY they support or oppose the proposal.

There is a technical term used by political scientists to describe people like ol' Mitch who announce without explanation that they are opposed to a compromise proposal either before or within minutes of it being made public: "arrogant asshole".

That's all I have to say about that.

how effectively they have used it to attack democracy, I sort of sheepishly ask the question: "Should some types of LIES be crimes?"

Not mistakes; not "fibs"; not bs delivered with a smile----LIES employed for political purposes and intended to alarm, intimidate or motivate to violence. They might be termed "terroristic lies".

Okay, tear that apart.

against recognizing the heroic service of the Capitol Police during the January 6th insurrection. Of those 21, only three women were so morally compromised that they joined in extending a middle finger to law enforcement after claiming numerous times that they "back the blue".

There was Boebert, Taylor-Greene and --------- you. As if quoting Hitler with approval during your first week in office wasn't "out there" enough.

"Birds if a feather", Mary; "birds of a feather".

Barack Obama.

Think about it.

that permits mean-spirited people to be cruel to people who are "different" while claiming to be doing "God's will".

You spent most of the 2020 GOP primary season trying to out-slime Donald Trump. He mocked you as "Li'l Marco" and you did that really classy bit about his tiny genitalia. But, NOW, you practically wet yourself trying to get close enough to him to put another layer of your lipstick on his posterior.

We saw you four years ago. We heard you, too.

Ain't you got no shame, boy?