In Search of a Just World
If you’re reading this, you’ve probably heard of the Just-World Hypothesis, but for anyone who hasn’t — or needs a refresher — it’s the fallacious tendency...
What We Carry With Us, What We Leave Behind
In evolutionary biology, a maladaptation is a trait that makes survival in the current environment harder. Such maladaptive traits are often the result of...
A Concession to Reality
Yesterday, Donald Trump gave what is likely the closest thing to a concession speech he will ever give, and under the only circumstances in which he would...
As The Smoke Clears
Well. I find myself today in the position of not really knowing what to say, but knowing that things must be said. I do make a point to remind people, from...
Wake Me When November Ends
Tomorrow is January 6th, the day when a joint session of Congress comes together and performs what is largely a perfunctory, ceremonial formality of...
The Headsman's Axe Always Finds A Spine
Mitch McConnell broke with Trump in a major way yesterday, speaking from the Senate floor in comments addressed to Joe Biden and Senator Kamala Harris, he...
The GOP Knows Trump Lost
A story broke yesterday in The Hill with the headline “Senate GOP warns Biden against picking Sally Yates as attorney general”. A key detail within the...
Kraken, Where Is Thy Sting?
In the wake of the dismissal from the bench (roughly the judicial equivalent of a gunslinger firing from the hip) of the Georgia Kraken lawsuit the tinfoil...
When All You Have Is A Hammer, Everything Looks Like A Scorecard
Lately I’ve been following a lot of lawyers on Twitter so I can read their tweet-throughs of the various post-election legal cases and filings by Team Trump...
The Daylight Discourse
It's been said that character is what you do in the dark. It's also been said that sunlight is the best disinfectant. I have some doubts about the broad...
The View From Twitter Exile
Last night my boyfriend Jack noticed I was scrolling Twitter, to his surprise. "You're still on Twitter even while you're banned from Twitter?" he exclaimed....
2019, a Review In Tweets
Late last year, I started doing a compilation of some of my best (mostly humorous) tweets that I made in 2019. For one reason or another, I never actually...
Where There Isn't Smoke, There's A Liar
James O'Keefe is in the news again over a dueling set of claims about a USPS "whistleblower" who claimed to have witnessed fraud and then may or may not have...
One Rogue: A Waywards Tory
As I said last night on Twitter, there is nothing inevitable about Trump's slow-rolling coup attempts and while I don't think we need to give into despair...
Well, It's Happened...
Please do not go yell at Twitter on my behalf; I have been playing with fire in the wake of the election and I admit that part of it was curiosity of what it...
Meanwhile, on Fox...
One of my dirty secrets — well, not really dirty and not actually a secret — is that despite making a substantial portion of my income these past few years...
The American Presidency: As Seen On TV!
So of course it’s come down to this. Jonathan Swan @jonathanvswanPresident Trump has told confidants he'll declare victory on Tuesday night if it looks like...
One day more!
Well. Here we are. Tomorrow is Election Day in the United States, which in this case simply means the last day to vote. If you can vote, I hope you have. If...
Trump's Magic Words are the Best Words
One trait of Trump’s that was well-attested in both the 60 Minutes interview footage he released yesterday and last night’s debate was his deep and abiding...
Quick Hit: Trump's Closing Argument is "All I Need Is You"
With poll after poll showing bad news for the Trump campaign, debate (or dueling timeslot) disasters, and story after story of bad news for the incumbent,...