The final episode of Game of Thrones has aired and the consensus is . . . it sucked. I though the ending had problems myself (hence the qualified defense) but as I have now finished a second viewing I don’t think it was that bad. Primarily, what jumped out at me was the final small […]
The picture above is one I took in Big Bend National Park in May 2014. I was coming down the Lost Mine Trail when I turned the corner on a switchback and I saw a large black furry blob about 50 feet in front of me. At first I had no idea what it was because […]
I was doing some data coding on international homicide rates and when looking at the data for Norway I was reminded of how horrifying the 22/July attack was. Anders Breivik killed 77 people, many of them teenagers. The attack accounts for a doubling of the homicide rate for Norway in 2011. These figures both put […]
I am almost through reading the Mueller Report and, although this is not the most important takeaway one can have from reading it, the one takeaway that sticks out to me is – what a fucking moron the President of the United States is. This is not a new insight but it is one that […]
Everyone who is not a racist, a grifter, or a nihilist knows that Donald Trump is manifestly unfit to be President. The list of things he should be impeached for is long but today’s news that Trump told the head of the Customs and Border Patrol to close the border and he would pardon him […]
We are in a mini golden age of leftist foreign policy. This mini golden age is sadly not in the implementation of left wing foreign policies but rather in the writing and thinking about what a left wing foreign policy should be. The range of contributions are coming from Democratic candidates for President, to commentators […]
There was a great op-ed in the NYTimes today arguing the the Democrats should stop arguing with Republicans on their terms with regards to immigration. The author, Daniel Denvir argues that: Democrats should follow their voters, who increasingly want more open borders, and reframe the immigration debate by rejecting the very notion that the border […]
Because our racist grifter of a President is afraid that Ann Coulter will say mean things about him if he doesn’t get his racist wall on the U.S.-Mexico border the federal government has been shutdown now for almost a month. On Saturday the dummy President, and supposed excellent deal-maker, offered a 3 year extension for […]
I plan on doing a series of posts investigating how much North Dakota has benefitted from its oil boom, if it has? I leave this as an open question as I am genuinely curious when you add up all the costs and benefits for the state has it been worth it? Of course, “worth it” […]
Because it is winter break and I have some free time before the holiday onslaught of family and food begins, I was tooling around Datawrapper and saw they have county maps for North Dakota (and all 50 states actually). This is pretty cool so I made two maps of the 2012 and 2018 ND Senate races. […]
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