2018-08-13 00:17
The season five finale of The 100 showed why I have had mixed feelings about this series for the last few years. While the show has its problems, it sure knows how to put together an… Read More
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Discussion of politics and society from a perspective of liberal values including individual liberty and separation of church and state.
2018-08-07 00:01
The goal this year must not only be to elect candidates to oppose Trump, but to also reform the Democratic Party (which is responsible for the situation in 2016 which enabled Trump to be el… Read More
2018-08-05 20:59
After several weeks of rumors, it was finally confirmed at the Los Vegas Star Trek Convention that Patrick Stewart will be returning to Star Trek, reprising his role as Jon Luc-Picard. Dead… Read More
2018-07-30 00:59
Last week I began coverage of this year’s San Diego Comic Con, concentrating on Star Trek: Discovery, The Orville, and Doctor Who. This week I will add some additional information whi… Read More
2018-07-23 22:35
As I noted last week, there has been a lack of understanding of past relationships between world powers, and a lack of perspective, in recent discussions regarding Russia. Some act as if me… Read More
2018-07-23 00:30
We learned from the Star Trek: Discovery panel at San Diego Comic Con that Christopher Pike will be taking command of Discovery, but it is not how much of the season this will apply to.&nbs&helli…Read More
2018-07-22 01:00
Glenn Greenwald reports at The Intercept that Ecuador is preparing to turn Julian Assange over to UK authorities. He writes:
A source close to the Ecuadorian Foreign Ministry and the Presid… Read More
2018-07-15 23:41
The second season finale of The Handmaid’s Tale was quite controversial. I had mixed feelings when I saw June/Offred decide not to flee to Canada. It was frustrating, and unexpected… Read More
2018-07-14 19:52
The announcement of the indictment of twelve Russian agents by Robert Mueller yesterday changes little with regards to what was already known, but establishment Democrats are taking all the… Read More
2018-07-11 21:04
There has been a lot of talk lately about an anti-establishment fervor in the Democratic Party, largely fueled by both dissatisfaction with the status quo and the manner in which the DNC ri… Read More
2018-07-08 22:10
12 Monkeys concluded the series with an epic finale on Friday which tied up many loose ends from the past four years, and provided somewhat of a surprise with the ending. While listed as tw… Read More
2018-06-30 21:19
Westworld concluded the second season by answering many of the questions raised during the season, and opening up a whole new set of questions for season three. One meta question about the… Read More
2018-06-27 21:38
Despite efforts of the Democratic establishment to fight progressive candidates, there have been some major victories for the left, including the surprise upset of Joseph Crowley… Read More
2018-06-24 21:20
As often happens with bad news, NBC released the official announcement on Friday that they are not going to renew Timeless. There is talk about a two hour movie to conclude the series, as N… Read More
2018-06-20 18:00
This looks like something to check out. An anonymous author has written a book debunking Hillary Clinton’s lies in What Happened. We know Clinton lied through her teeth, as the a… Read More
2018-06-17 21:24
I found Legion’s second season to be a disappointment compared to the first. Extending from eight to eleven episodes was probably a mistake. I wasn’t even certain if I would con… Read More
2018-06-13 21:32
The Democratic National Committee is talking about reforms, but it is not clear how real these reforms will be, and whether the party establishment will really allow them. In response to lo… Read More
2018-06-09 21:27
Will Patrick Stewart have a cameo on Star Trek: Discovery, or perhaps return to directing for an episode? Stewart has made a comment which has led to rumors that this might occur. TrekMovie… Read More
2018-06-05 18:29
Jack F. Matlock Jr., ambassador to the Soviet Union from 1987 to 1991, writes in The Nation that, “We must end this Russophobic insanity.” Many Democrats continue to spread hyst… Read More
2018-06-03 23:41
For the last six years, The Americans was among the best continuing dramas on television. Now the series has concluded with a perfect finale which compares favorable with the top finales in… Read More
2018-06-02 01:12
Despite a decade of losing while standing for little other than being slightly more moderate than Republicans, Democrats have concentrated on cosmetic changes such as seeking the right slog… Read More
2018-05-30 18:03
This year we have seen conflicts in the Democratic Party as the party establishment has intervened in primary races to back more moderate or conservative candidates over more progressive ca… Read More
2018-05-28 22:45
The Flash finally defeated DeVoe in the season finale. This plot line hardly justified this long a story. A thirteen episode season, or dividing the season up as Agents of SHIELD often does… Read More
2018-05-23 20:11
Our ideas about freedom of speech and First Amendment rights need to evolve in this social media age. Almost a year ago I wrote about a lawsuit against Donald Trump for banning people from… Read More
2018-05-21 00:58
Shortly after I listed Agents of SHIELD as one of the shows in which the fate was unknown when I listed renewals last week, word came out that SHIELD was renewed for a thirteen episode seas… Read More
2018-05-16 18:25
While Hillary Clinton is on a world-wide bitterness tour to continue to give excuses for her loss, further evidence released from the Congressional investigations continues to show that Rus… Read More
Do The Morons Running Facebook Really Think They Are Fighting Spam When They Censor Political Views?
2018-05-15 18:20
Facebook has released ts first quarterly Community Standards Enforcement Report, bragging about how they have closed fake accounts and shut down spam. Never mind that much of what they… Read More
2018-05-13 21:57
The wedding of Amy and Sheldon occurred on The Big Bang Theory last Thursday. TV Line discussed the episode with Steve Holland:
TVLINE | You mentioned when we spoke last week that Meem… Read More
2018-05-10 23:29
The American Civil Liberties Union has outlined how Gina Haspel evaded multiple questions from the Senate Intelligence Committee this week. This included a question from Kamala Harris… Read More
2018-05-09 19:17
Among the many things which supporters of the Democratic Party establishment fail to understand is the vast difference in views of many on the left and the Democratic Party. They think that… Read More
2018-05-07 23:21
There have been reports for a while that Star Trek 4 will include Chris Hemsworth reprising his role as the father of Captain Kirk, despite being killed in the first J. J. Abrams Star… Read More
2018-05-06 02:00
2018-05-04 17:26
Porn star Stormy Daniels is suing President Trump for defamation for something he said in a tweet. When they heard this, Muslims, African-Americans, gays, and Hillary Clinton said, “Y… Read More
2018-05-03 12:42
Daniel Larison responded to attacks on the Iran deal at The American Conservative, Here is a portion:
Ending the deal now because of Iran’s brief flirtation with nuclear weapons resea… Read More
2018-05-03 12:42
Posting will be down the next few days while I am out of town (more on Saturday), but I do have some brief items which will be posted. This includes SciFi Weekend. An abbreviated post will p… Read More
2018-05-02 16:53
Democratic candidates increasingly feel like they must swear off corporate contributions, but Zaid Jilani at The Intercept shows that this might just be a cheap gesture. He writes:
SE… Read More
2018-05-01 22:52
Donald Trump has a long history of insulting anyone who displeases him, including the handicapped, immigrants, Muslims, and gold star families. He has quite frequently attacked the app… Read More
2018-04-30 21:24
Sounding as ominous as a warning of an impending swarm of locusts, Axios writes today, “A new Clinton wave is coming this spring.” They go on to say, “The Clinton family h… Read More
2018-04-29 22:41
Star Trek: Discovery season two has gone into production and CBS has released the video below with some glimpses, including brief views involving the Enterprise. Unfortunately we do not see… Read More
2018-04-28 20:16
The Democratic Party has struggled to come up with a response to Donald Trump on Syria. While some disagree, they cannot come up with a unified opposition to the air strikes or intervention… Read More
2018-04-28 00:19
The tape released this week of a Democratic Party leader trying to get a progressive to drop out of a Congressional primary has raised far more attention to the issue. The tape was initiall… Read More
2018-04-26 23:16
The Democratic leadership, including the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, have shown they are not our allies as they repeatedly attack the left, have purged progressives fr… Read More
2018-04-25 22:40
The threats to freedom of the press under Donald Trump have led to Reporters Without Borders dropping the rating of the United States to 45th, continuing its downward trend. The United… Read More
2018-04-24 23:20
Partisan Democrats remain unable to face reality regarding why Hillary Clinton lost, blaming this on James Comey, Russia, or other things which they claim were beyond Clinton’s contro… Read More
2018-04-24 00:47
While we don’t have Bernie Sanders in the White House, but we can see much more of him on line. New York Magazine has a feature on Bernie Sanders’s digital media empire. Here ar… Read More
2018-04-22 23:26
Production on Star Trek: Discovery season 2 started in Toronto on April 16. TrekMovie.com has an excellent rundown of what is known about the season so far. This includes some new cast memb… Read More
2018-04-21 22:28
In 2016 the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton were exposed for undermining democratic principles by rigging the Democratic nomination and other acts of gross dishonesty. Whi… Read More
2018-04-20 20:38
After getting a copy of James Comey’s book, A Higher Loyalty, I couldn’t resist skipping past the material from earlier in his career and get to the sections on Clinton and Trum… Read More
2018-04-19 18:55
Edward Snowden has joined civil liberties organizations including Amnesty International, the American Civil Liberties Union, and the Freedom of the Press Foundation in condemning Russia for… Read More
2018-04-19 02:28
The Democrats received an electoral gift in 2016 with an opponent as terrible as Donald Trump. They could have probably nominated a name taken at random from the phone book and beaten him… Read More
2018-04-18 20:53
During an interview last week, Ed Schultz said he was fired from MSNBC due to his support for Bernie Sanders. As should not come as a surprise to anybody, Schultz also said that MSNBC was&n&helli…Read More
2018-04-17 20:00
Bernie Sanders was the keynote speaker last week at a four day conference for the training of progressive candidates. ABC News reported:
Sanders’ legacy political organization, Our Re… Read More
2018-04-16 18:46
There should be little controversy as to the main headline coming out of James Comey’s interview with George Stephanopoulos. Donald Trump is morally unfit to be president. The mo… Read More
2018-04-15 22:14
Anson Mount has been cast to play Captain Christopher Pike on Star Trek: Discovery. We don’t know much of the Enterprise will be seen on Discovery next season, but did get some clues… Read More
2018-04-14 22:25
The US bombing in Syria has made my planned posts on Dennis Kucinich this week even more applicable to current events. Earlier in the week I quoted from a profile of Kucinich in The Washing… Read More
2018-04-13 23:36
It’s being reported that a former doorman at a Trump building in New York was paid $30,000 to keep quiet about a rumor that Trump fathered an illegitimate child with his housekeeper i… Read More
2018-04-12 20:53
Add Matt Taibbi to those I mentioned yesterday warning about going to war in Syria. He has an article in Rolling Stone entitled, If We’re on the Brink of War, the Fault Is Ours… Read More
2018-04-11 23:33
It is a shame that a xenophobic conservative like Tucker Carlson is making more sense about Syria on Fox than most others in the news media, including the supposed liberals on MSNBC. During… Read More
2018-04-11 02:57
The Washington Post Magazine took a lengthy look at Dennis Kucinich, who is now running for the Democratic nomination for Governor of Ohio. Here are some excerpts:
“Kucinich was ahead… Read More
2018-04-10 00:38
The FBI has raided the office and hotel room of Donald Trump’s personal attorney, Michael Cohen. Cohen was allegedly involved in a payoff to Stormy Daniels along with having… Read More
2018-04-09 00:37
Last week featured the season finales of two excellent shows, The Magicians and Counterpart. While I rarely watch fantasy as opposed to science fiction, I found The Magicians to be an excel… Read More
2018-04-07 23:51
In a way, here is one good thing to come out of the Trump presidency–an increase in people coming out to protest. From Vox:
We don’t know yet whether President Donald Trump wil… Read More
2018-04-07 01:01
The Department of Homeland Security wants to start monitoring “media influencers” according to a report at Bloomberg Law:
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security want… Read More
2018-04-06 00:13
The Trump administration has shown a strange level of inconsistency towards scandal. On the one hand, former Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price was quickly fired over the… Read More
2018-04-04 21:08
The Washington Post reports that Donald Trump is a subject, not a target of Mueller’s Probe. From their report:
Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III informed President Trump’s… Read More
2018-04-04 02:08
There has been a lot of question as to whether Russian activities on social media were responsible for Donald Trump winning. This does not appear likely as the Congressional test… Read More
2018-04-03 00:07
It was unfortunate but not really unexpected when the Trump Administration took down government sites with information on issues such as climate change and LGBTQ issues. We know that these… Read More
2018-04-01 21:03
The last two episodes of Agents of SHIELD have been excellent, tying into the events of last season and fitting into the upcoming events in Avengers: Infinity War. This week’s episod… Read More
2018-03-31 18:53
While there have been many negatives since the 2016 election, including both the presidency of Donald Trump and the Democratic establishment falling into McCarthyism and Cold War Revivalism… Read More
2018-03-30 20:28
Hillary Clinton never takes responsibility for her actions and will inevitably resort to blaming others, whether it is to blame Russia, James Comey, or sexism. Clinton initially received a… Read More
2018-03-29 21:12
“It’s like Richard Nixon going to China, but if Nixon were a moron.” –Jeffrey Lewis, writing in Foreign Affairs about Trump going to North Korea. (Hat tip to Politic… Read More
2018-03-28 19:20
There is wide spread consensus that opiates were overused in the past, and their use has been greatly curtailed in recent years. Many people were placed on high doses for chronic pain when… Read More
2018-03-28 01:08
This study is not at all surprising, but provides yet another reason to doubt those who claim that the election was stolen from Hillary Clinton due to Russian trolls or other unfavorable co… Read More
2018-03-27 01:25
While George W. Bush initially promoted the career of John Bolton, over time his opinion became closer to Jimmy Carter’s view of him. Max Boot points out that by 2008, George Bush no… Read More
2018-03-25 16:53
There are so many reviews already out there about how bad My Struggle IV was that I won’t spend much time piling on here. It is especially disappointing that this is not only the seas… Read More
2018-03-25 00:33
The claim that the 2016 election was stolen due to the actions of Russian trolls is one of the most absurd political arguments ever made. As I’ve noted previously, the Congressional t… Read More
2018-03-24 03:50
Donald Trump’s choice of John Bolton to be National Security Adviser greatly diminishes any hopes that Donald Trump actually meant it when he (sometimes) spoke out against war as a ca… Read More
2018-03-22 19:25
President Trump met at the White House today with the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, Prince Mohammed bin Salman. They call him MBS for short. For real. Trump actually prepared for this meeti… Read More
2018-03-22 01:00
With the high level of McCarthyism coming from pro-Clinton Democrats in recent months, it has been commonplace recently for such Democrats to falsely attack those they disagree with as bein… Read More
2018-03-21 02:44
Fifteen years ago the United States invaded Iraq based on lies. In addition to the lies from the Bush administration, Hillary Clinton lied, claiming that Saddam colluded with al Qaeda.
Clin… Read More
2018-03-20 02:15
As was revealed in Shattered, within twenty-four hours of losing the election, Hillary Clinton decided to blame others such as Russia for her loss to Donald Trump. Polls such as a recent Yo… Read More
2018-03-19 01:30
Stephen Hawking died last week leading to recognition not only from the scientific community, tributes from many in actors due to his many appearances on genre television. He was the only h… Read More
2018-03-18 19:28
Vladimir Putin has won reelection for another six-year term as president of the Russian Kleptocracy, with exit polls showing him winning about 74 percent of the vote. The election is widely… Read More
2018-03-17 21:04
Recent reports on China’s social credit system sound Orwellian, or like something out of Black Mirror. The Verge summarized how the system works:
Starting in May, Chinese… Read More
2018-03-16 20:23
Before the 2016 election I feared that a Clinton presidency would turn Democrats into a pack of neocon warmongers and we would see attempts to limit free speech in protest. What I didn&rsqu&helli…Read More
2018-03-16 03:41
Jimmy Kimmel doesn’t agree with Donald Trump very often, but he said he does agree with supporting American products. Kimmel ordered merchandise from Trump’s online store and fo… Read More
2018-03-14 23:26
Most losing candidates keep a low profile after losing an election. Despite being robbed of victory, Al Gore kept quiet at first, and reemerged more liberal, and a vocal opponent of the Ira… Read More
2018-03-13 23:32
The porn star that claims she had an affair with the president is now suing him. Man, it’s so weird – it’s almost as if we DID elect a Clinton! –Conan O’Brien Read More
2018-03-12 23:07
The nomination processes of both major political parties failed in 2016, with each major political party nominating a candidate who was unfit to be president. The situation was even more ou… Read More
2018-03-11 23:12
Last season The Magicians went into battle with a musical number from Les Miserables (video here). This season they topped that in an episode with four muscical numbers, which also rev… Read More
2018-03-10 18:57
Democrats suffered serious losses in Congressional and state races in 2010 and 2014 after running as a Republican-lite party. Despite trying to shift the blame to Russia and others, Democra… Read More
2018-03-09 15:52
The conflict between the DCCC and the progressive wing of the Democratic Party seen in a Texas primary this week was just one instance of them supporting conservative over progressive Democ… Read More
2018-03-08 17:21
The latest headlines regarding the Trump administration and Russia report that Robert Mueller is investigating meetings to establish back channel communications with Russia in January 2017… Read More
2018-03-07 22:38
Liberals and progressives have two major opponents in American politics–the Republican Party and the Democratic Party establishment. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committ… Read More
2018-03-06 22:06
I predicted before the 2016 election that whichever party won the presidential election with a choice of such unpopular candidates would lose long term. Donald Trump has poisoned the Republ… Read More
2018-03-06 00:37
Alec Baldwin returned to Saturday Night Live to portray Donald Trump in the cold open, video above.
The skit began with Alex Moffat portraying Anderson Cooper saying, “In times l… Read More
2018-03-05 01:33
The X-Files had another unique episode this week with Rm9sbG93ZXJz , which decodes to “Followers” in Base64. The episode has more of the feel of an episode of Black Mi… Read More
2018-03-03 23:17
Donald Trump very well might be the worst president in our history, but that doesn’t mean that there are other policians who are also very dangerous. For example, Lindsey G… Read More
2018-03-03 01:32
Many people are upset about Republicans who offer thoughts and prayers in response to mass shootings without offering any real solutions. A Michigan woman responded by sending a check made… Read More
2018-03-02 02:18
First Read looked at the Democrats’ strategy for the 2018 election, which comes down to continuing to avoid standing for anything. They noted the chaos in the Trump administration, an… Read More
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