A Clinton ad appears to show Obama with darker-than-normal skin tone. The proverbial speculation on the proverbial internets that Hillary’s proverbial campaign proverbially did this on purpose is proverbially rampant. You know, to make him look more sinister and stuff. Or something. AHA! RACISM! I don’t know. I think it’s a subtle difference at best. … Read more
Get your brain around it. One of every one hundred adults in the United States is in jail or prison. That’s more than anywhere else in the world. Now I’m quite certain some countries would be ahead of us in the count were they absent the habit of just killing folks. Still, it’s disturbing. A … Read more
I’ve written before of what a terrible place Zimbabwe has become under Robert Mugabe. The current official estimate of Zimbabwe’s inflation rate is 100,000%. Indepedent analysts believe it may be more like 150,000%. So what does that mean? It means this boy holding what looks to be a quarter of his weight in cash doesn’t … Read more