Tik Tok Trump. Watch Facebook and America’s Software Industry Crash

Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg shoots himself in the foot so often you wonder he can walk. But this time is extreme – he’s apparently helped convince Trump that Tik Tok and other Chinese-owned apps are dangerous and need to be banned.

Trump, never an analytical thinker and open to anything that he sees helping with re-election, has responded with bans on a number of Chinese-owned apps.

The official Trumpian reasoning is that, because the apps are controlled by a dangerous foreign nation, they could be used for nefarious purposes.

Hmmm. Remembering that what’s “foreign” depends on where you live, and that a lot of countries see the US, especially under Trump, as recklessly dangerous, where else might this principle apply?

Don’t Forget the Prosecutors

The murder of George Floyd has triggered an enormously positive rethinking about the problem of racial discrimination in American society.

My Address is #15, Benedict Arnold Boulevard

It’s just off the intersection with Axis Sally Avenue.

Sound strange? It shouldn’t if you believe the Honoring Dead Confederates Movement, which argues that memorials and monuments to Southern traitors are merely “history.”

Master Dabo’s Clemson Plantation

Clemson University’s football program just had its first player decommitment in many years. No, now make that two. Both, interestingly, are Black.

Is this an aberration, or a trend?

It sure looks like a trend.

GOP's Poster Wackos in Georgia and Florida Threaten College Football Season

The NCAA has announced there won’t be college football in the fall unless Coronavirus cases in the US are declining.

It’s the GOP That Wants to Kill Grandma

Some eleven years ago, Republicans launched a ferocious attack on Obamacare. One element of the battle was the claim that the new insurance plan would encourage people to “kill Grandma.”