Melissa McBride as Carol and Chad L. Coleman as Tyreese in AMC’s The Walking Dead There are more than a few definitions for the word ethics, but common to most of them are moral obligations dictated for any given situation either through the nature of the universe, a higher power, or standards of rationality. Depending […]

You are one creepy fella. Let’s all take a moment to bask in yet another example of North Carolina Senate candidate Thom Tillis being a terrible person. This time it’s over statements he made on the 2007 North Carolina joint resolution expressing regret over slavery. The good news is that he supported it (a rare […]

You still hear it all the time from Republicans running on Obamacare repeal: “We’ve got the best healthcare system in the world.” Yeah, well. We’re number 44!!! This ranking of healthcare efficiency was done by Bloomberg, examining “health care costs as a share of GDP and per capita, as well as life expectancy and improvements […]

The following diaries are examples of this week’s Election Diary Rescue. This post features a collection of 96 diaries. (IA-Sen) New Ad: “Will No One Think of the Chickens???” (Update) by Crashing Vor – Diarist has a video for the open Iowa Senate race between Bruce Braley (D) and Joni Ernst (R). (AK-AL) RWNJ Congressman: “The […]

We don’t need another senator who hangs out on the lecture circuit with these guys. Fix the Debt isn’t the only dubious group South Dakota Senate candidate Larry Kessler has associated with. While Fix the Debt is a bunch of deficit frauds, Kessler’s sat on the board of a company that was actually defrauding investors […]

Check out Larry Pressler, running for the U.S. Senate as an independent in South Dakota, debating Larry Pressler: October 2, 2014: ARGUS LEADER: If it was an up or no vote on repeal of Roe v. Wade, somehow, what would you, would you like to repeal Roe v. Wade, or do you think that the […]

Leading Off: • SD-Sen: Republican Mike Rounds has been roundly criticized (sorry) for taking this contest for granted and not going negative against either Democrat Rick Weiland or independent Larry Pressler. Rounds is trying to rectify that and he has two new spots (here and here). Both spots lump Weiland and Pressler together, portraying them […]

WHO health worker training in Sierra Leone. Training that we’re not paying for here. The National Institutes of Health funding has been cut. The Centers for Disease Control’s funding has been cut. Without those cuts, the Director of the NIH says, “we probably would have had a vaccine in time for this that would’ve gone […]

The only thing we have to fear is fireproof zombie Ebola I would shake my head at this but then I remember a sizable fraction of our nation’s leaders and would-be leaders still believe in demon possession so believing that the incinerated ashes of an Ebola victim’s worldly belongings might rise up and something-something zombie […]

Today’s comic by Tom Tomorrow is The counter-intuitivist: This is what you missed on Sunday Kos: Follow your passion, and don’t forget to​ dream, by Mark E Andersen The argle bargle blowing through the windmills of Justice Scalia’s mind, by Steven Payne Book review: ‘Latino America’ by Matt Barreto and Gary M. Segura, by Susan […]