It’s a binary machine with no capacity for empathy — It’s fun to play around and see what apps like Alexa say when you ask them if you’re fat (“It’s what’s inside that counts”). …

Seven simple tips for resisting conspiracy theories — 1. Get off Facebook. Or at least stop reading the news feed. If you can’t bear to cancel your account, at a minimum limit your interactions to people you have met in person (and know they are who they say they are). They could still be crazy, but at least…

Jordan’s latest committee stunt backfires as usual — Today’s meeting of the Committee to Investigate the Weaponization of Government went about as well as expected. True to form, Jim Jordan, head of the committee, attempted to discredit the FBI after the failed Durham investigation, but he miscalculated again. This time the FBI spoke up in their defense. In…

CNN is becoming the new FOX — What might have been an opportunity to set the record straight was instead an unmitigated disaster. The appointed mitigator, Kaitlin Collins, did her best to call him on his lies, but she was unsuccessful. …

Carlson gets the boot, and Trump’s media presence all but disappears — Okay, so FOX isn’t exactly mainstream, but it’s as close to it as Trump will ever get. And now that his champion, Tucker Carlson, has been unceremoniously fired from FOX, it’s hard to imagine Trump getting the kind of attention he is used to from any of the remaining FOX…

More guns lead to more gun violence — The Republican Party has been stoking fear as an excuse for insisting that their constituents must be armed. As a result, they’ve cultivated a population of suspicious, paranoid people who are increasingly dangerous to innocent, law-abiding citizens. Kyle Rittenhouse is a perfect example. He crossed state lines to interfere with…

FOX will never admit their lies, and now their viewers will never know the truth — The lawyer for Dominion keeps saying how proud he is of Dominion’s employees and continues to cite the evidence presented during the pretrial depositions as proof of FOX’s lies. There is just one problem: no one who watches FOX will ever know this. Yes, Dominion got money and quite a…

A recording device left in the office of the McCurtain County Sheriff speaks volumes — On March 6, when the McCurtain County commissioner's meeting ended, a handful of Sheriff Kevin Clardy's associates stayed behind. The stragglers included District 2 Commissioner Mark Jennings, Capt. Alicia Manning, Jail Administrator Larry Hendrix, and two others identified in the published portion of the transcript as "Heather" and "Beck."

Jordan’s effort to embarrass DA Bragg embarrasses Republicans instead — Today’s crowd outside the Manhattan courthouse was vocal and visible, with some carrying signs that read, “Jim Jordan is a traitor,” while others called for DA Bragg’s resignation. It’s what thinking people everywhere were expecting after House Republican and Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan announced his decision to take his committee…