Politically Engaged Readers Gifts

What To Expect When You Were Not Expecting This

Actually, Forced Child Separations Are All-American

H-1BS

"To be or not to be."

Lord George brings news of the debate

Health Care Crisis table.

Scars and Bars

I hope that "golden showers" dossier about Trump is true. That'd be awesome. How so, little buddy? Well, I was always a big fan of the cold war. I loved "Red Dawn" and "War Games" and "James Bond" and all those really cool cold war movies. If it's true that our new president is actually being blackmailed by the Russians, we might finally have a real "Manchurian Candidate." I've calculated that the number of "Twilight Zone" episodes that might still come true has just grown by half a dozen. I hop

The Atomium Bombs

'Line up for your economic recovery treatment!'

BNP legality response to court ruling.

'Hi! I'm a freshman -- when do I get corrupted?'

Trump Tower

NHS Stabbing Ward

An Arm and a Leg.

'Europe a fortress? What are you talking about?! Can't you see - the door's wide open!'

'He's practicing for his appearance before the congressional committee on torture.'

Voting Is Becoming Far More of an Adventure

The National Conversation Starts Here

4,489 American troops lost their lives in Iraq, and thousands were seriously wounded for life. Some accounts say half a million Iraqis died because of the war. But you know what? If it turns out they all sacrificed in vain, then that's the most powerful reminder there is that wars of choice do not end well. ... In which case they did NOT sacrifice in vain. I've forgotten what you just said.

'We can offer Volunteers a range of experiences including exhaustion, emotional overload, lack of support and stark terror.'

Taser incident.

America

'So - when you say we need to deal with mental health instead of gun control what do you have in mind? Some government agency that would decide who's crazy and round 'em up?'

'When they said the NHS is for people 'From the cradle to the grave' they meant the patients not the staff.'

Sam's Nation Building

Kamala Devi Harris caricature

President Trump blames loss of gravity on Democrats and China."

Give up Smoking!

"And in this section it appears that you have not only alienated voters but actually infected them, too."

"Why is the invisible hand of the marketplace always in my pocket?"

'Making a profit was a lot easier before so many countries abandoned socialism and started competing!'

'...and if you missed my party political broadcast last night, this is how I looked.'

"So, what would you do about the Taliban, Channel Immigrants and Extinction Rebellion, eh?"

'I'm feeling a little depressed, myself -- let's go think up some feel-good legislation.'