Spring seems to have sprung in the back yard. (at Minneapolis, Minnesota)
Yes, that's Ford Jenga. (at Minnesota State Fair)
It isn't even 9 am yet and Gus has already had enough.
My co-workers this morning are really proving their worth.
Lathropworld on Tumblr turned 5 today! Maybe we’ll use it more this year!
Honestly cats, is there really something out there?
...Of, by, and for the people...Or not.
Like a groundhog stepping out of his hidey-hole to see his shadow, Trump and his fellow conservative, white, rich guys…er, administration…have come forth blinkingly into the sunlight, with their tax plan. While this coincides with the 100th day of their rule of our fine land, please note that it is not a celebration of that time. Rather, it is punitive for those who aren’t like them. Theirs is a…
"...And That Is Why You Fail."
Tracy Claeys was fired from his job as the head football coach for the University of Minnesota. Honestly, this shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone (including Claeys himself who noted that he told his family that he likely would be fired Tuesday morning), but in interviews he’s been doing, he keeps hitting on a few points that clearly illustrate how he doesn’t understand the situation he was…
COVERS: Sarah McLachlan makes an angry XTC song haunting in this cover of Dear God.
The original is here: https://youtu.be/hk41Gbjljfo
COVERS: Tomorrow Never Knows as performed by the Beatles is a strange but intriguing song that makes you listen to it. This Cowboy Mouth cover make it danceable but keep it funky.
COVERS:
Granted, the video isn’t great, but Siouxsie and the Banshees do a great cover of a great Beatles tune.
Fake News Isn't The Problem
The headline should say it all, but I know that people won’t get it, so here goes the explanation… First, fake news isn’t the reason the election turned out the way it did. There are many reasons for that, not the least of which was the remarkably large number of people who stayed home and didn’t bother voting. To those people, I say “you get what you paid for.” But news–even fake news–is a…
Transparency, My Ass
Quietly, in the dead of night, and out of the glare of public scrutiny, House GOP members voted to make significant changes to the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE). (Note: they have since rescinded their move after a backlash not only from the public, but also from their own speaker of the house and president-elect.) Now, rules changes aren’t abnormal acts for a party that controls a house of…
Lord John Whorfin, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai
New Year, New Plan
Wow. What an election, right? You’re probably either shocked, scared, shocked, terrified, or just shocked at the outcome. And now the 2017 political session is looming, and we’re all holding our communal breath to wait to see what happens. For the site here, I haven’t posted since August, and need to pick it up, because there’s a lot to say and comment on, but some of the longer-form pieces just…
DC should use Adam West in their movies like Marvel uses Stan Lee.
House Republicans overwhelmingly reelected Paul Ryan on Tuesday to another term as speaker of the House. Only one — Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) — voted against him.
It’s the first full term for Ryan, who took the gavel from his predecessor John Boehner in late 2015. And the near-unanimous support of the Republican caucus is a symbolic milestone for a House GOP that has long been bitterly divided along ideological lines. But the election of Donald Trump, who at times has feuded with Ryan, undercut a band of hardline conservatives strategizing to replace him.
Ryan will take control of a slightly smaller Republican caucus — Democrats netted six seats in the November elections — but one still firmly in control of the chamber, holding a 241- to 194-seat edge.
Massie, the lone anti-Ryan vote, cast his ballot for Florida Republican Daniel Webster.
On the other side of the aisle, House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi saw four defections in her own caucus: Rep. Jim Cooper (D-Ohio) voted for fellow Ohio Democrat Tim Ryan, and Rep. Ron Kind (D-Wisc.) voted for Cooper. Rep. Kathleen Rice (D-New York) also voted for Tim Ryan, and Rep. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) voted for Rep. John Lewis.
Paul Ryan will begin his term helping the incoming Trump administration shepherd through its early priorities. He spent the day ahead of the speakership vote defusing a controversy over a late Monday decision by House Republicans to weaken the Office of Congressional Ethics. Amid pressure from Ryan, Trump and a public backlash, House Republicans agreed to pull their proposal and consider it later in the year.
Just remember that he didn’t really want it in the first place.