I’ve talked a lot of smack about Vice President Joe Biden in these pages, mostly because of his mishandling of Anita Hill’s allegations against then-nominee, and later Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Specifically I’ve said that he shielded a man who was clearly unfit for the Supreme Court, and humiliated a Black woman who came […]
We’ll start a couple of days back, when I was flicking through pictures I’d taken on my phone. Mostly meals and portraits of my cat, Lyndon Johnson, being cute in various ways. I stumbled on a shot that was mysterious, compelling, and utterly foreign. I took it on Saturday at 3:42 a.m. I’m sure I […]
Over the last day or so, a video clip has been circulating of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) schooling Rep. Ted Yoho (R-FL) on the House floor. If you haven’t watched already, I highly recommend it. In the clip, Ocasio-Cortez speaks in a calm, direct fashion about the kind of bullying and verbal abuse that women […]
