Witness to a murder
I saw a murder this morning.
It flew into the burned out hulk of the Irish Times building.
A band of forlorn looking pigeons emerged just after. God only knows what depredations occurred inside.
Our leaders think you're stupid
Oct 15, 2020
The blizzard of campaign mail heaps in your box like a pile of debris from a storm.
There are various loud and obnoxious messages in the pile, leveling charges at opposing candidates, but the actual message is the same. The mail says, "We think you are stupid."
They not only broadcast that American voters are stupid, but the images that accompany their vile rhetoric say that they think their fellow citizens are of poor character.
Candidates occasionally let slip their true feelings about their fellow Americans.
Hillary Clinton called us deplorables. Mitt Romney called us the 47 percent.
Recently pardoned political operative Roger Stone said in a documentary that he targets "unsophisticates" for his message.
Let's prove them wrong.
Iowa headlines chaotic debacle
Feb. 29, 2020
ButteNews.net
by Jim Larson
Headline writers and reporters could at least try to come up with their own adjectives when hyping the difficulties that the Democrats had in tabulating the results of the Iowa Caucuses.
The terms chaos and debacle have been used over and over again, and both terms are wildly inaccurate.
Because of an app glitch, it took an extra day to get the results.
This sent the nations main news outlets into a frenzy, but not a frenzy that included any good writing.
Thornton move
Erdogan autocratic thug
Turkey's Tayyip Erdogan may or may not have staged Turkey's recent coup attempt, but the result is the same.
His Reichstag has burned, now he purges.