To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable

To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Thursday, January 16, 2025

Observercast

Is Elon’s Problem Simply Loneliness?

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Why does Elon Musk have to be the center of everyone’s attention every day? Has he no hobbies? Is running an industrial empire less than a full-time job? Perhaps he’s just lonely. Perhaps social media is not filling the need for human companionship – as many a depressed adolescent can explain. At times the richest […]

The ‘Missing’ Republican Witness Is On The Lam

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The Republicans who claim to be “investigating” President Joe Biden’s alleged corruption evidently can rely on the infinite patience of the American media and their own voters. Week after week they promise new and damning evidence, to be delivered by highly credible witnesses. And so far, every time, the results are embarrassing not to Biden, […]

Something’s Happening Here …

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No one on the pro-choice side wanted Dobbs to be decided and the abortion issue left to the 50 states to decide, with all the uncertainty and confusion that has created. Having said that, there is something happening in politics around the country the likes of which we haven’t seen before. It’s real, and it’s […]

A Nest Of Overprivileged Elites

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Here’s an embarrassing turn of events: The six right-wing ideologues now controlling the Supreme Court recently decreed that helping some students get into college through affirmative action programs is henceforth unconstitutional. This is somewhere between clueless and cynical, since at least five of these six aloof Supremes got into colleges and law schools through higher […]

DeSantis Can’t Beat Trump. Christie Could.

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The sane world agrees. You don’t get more bizarre than Ron DeSantis’ latest foray into culture war lunacy. We speak of that campaign video that bashes gay America while flashing a picture of Brad Pitt as a hunky Achilles. What homophobic crackhead made this ad? The Florida governor recalls Herbert Lom in the Pink Panther […]