Installed a gate to prevent the cat from getting into the office but he's slipped through while I installed it and I can't find the clasp bit that releases the gate so turns out I have in fact locked myself out of the office while he chills inside

Slightly diminish a book:

The Grapes of Irritation

Stephen Miller: "All these demonstrators that you've seen out here in recent days, all these elderly white hippies, they're not part of the city and never have been ... we're gonna ignore these stupid white hippies that all need to go home and take a nap because they're all over 90 years old."

The first time Charlie Chaplin used his voice in a film, he wielded it to forcefully condemn the rising forces of fascism around the globe. Will we listen to his words today?

1. "'Trusting the experts is not a feature of either a science or democracy," Kennedy said."

It's literally a vital feature of both science and of representative democracy.

I've written a fair bit about trust in expertise as a vital mechanism in the collective epistemology of science.

"Big Stupid" is going to be the death of us. www.esquire.com/news-politic...

OPINION:

Maddow: U.S. profoundly changed by authoritarian leader

@maddow.msnbc.com points out that the thing most Americans were dreading has come to pass, and the U.S. has changed profoundly in only six months of authoritarian rule.