In our entire history only one President got our credit downgraded in both his terms AND got us added to the Human Rights Watch List.

@mlb.com, shame on you

Conservative Christian groups love blackmail. Where was that shit in the bible?

All this went away real fast.

Seems valuable for as many US political scientists as possible to point out, esp. to journalists, that the lesson from Korea is that would-be dictators are stopped when members of their own party stand up against them.

How are folks doing? My anxiety about the country decreased for a bit, likely because I was distracted at a conference, but it’s making a mighty comeback and the news isn’t helping. I fear this country will be uninhabitable within 4 years

This was the year I learned, belatedly, that “Enter Sandman” was written about SIDS, which makes it SO much more evil