Author: J.P. Travis

Keith Olbermann and ESPN part ways. Again. He lasted almost two years this time. That’s longer than we expected.

Facebook strikes blow for gender equality. That’s the old “Friends” icon to the left—woman shorter and behind man—and the new, improved, gender-sensitive “Friends” icon to the right—woman in front of man and equally tall. Congratulations, ladies; time for a celebratory Virginia Slims.

Hillary Clinton gives first big interview as presidential candidate… and is immediately caught lying like a rug.

Another fake Cherokee in academia. First Ward Churchill, then Elizabeth Warren, now Andrea Smith, a professor of “media and cultural studies” at the University of California at Riverside. Like the other two fake Cherokees and like Rachel Dolezal, the fake black woman, Smith could not look more Caucasian if she tried.

Another Republican announces he’s running for president. Happy Jim Gilmore, former governor of Virginia. That’s seventeen Republican candidates so far. Whoever comes out of this scrum with the nomination will be one tough battle-hardened MF.

FBI, investigating child porn, raids Jared Fogle’s house. No confirmation so far that Jared is a suspect but… jeez Louise! Pee-wee Herman, Cliff Huxtable, and now Jared? Can’t we trust anybody?

That illegal oft-deported alien who murdered a woman in San Francisco? Obama blames Republicans.

When Obama says he deported illegal aliens… he really means he issued deportation orders to illegal aliens who will never bother to show up in court for the orders to be executed. So the Obama Administration’s deportation numbers are just another lie/scam, like unemployment numbers, GDP numbers, national debt numbers, racist police numbers…

Minnesota Democrats changed name of fish to avoid offending Asians. They were called “Asian carp” because they came from, uh, you know, Asia. Now their official name is “invasive carp.” With this logic, they better find new names for the Siberian husky, West Indian shrew, bald eagle, pygmy toad…

De Blasio signs bill putting non-union car washes out of business. Welcome to the thugocracy of communism, stupid New York voters. Enjoy.

Happy Independence Day! And remember: rights are granted by God, not five lawyers on the Supreme Court.

When pigs don’t fly. A pig balloon in Utah crashed after running into a cowboy balloon. Nobody was seriously hurt but Muslims in the neighborhood will be having nightmares for weeks.

How bad is the NY Police Department under de Blasio? Tuesday, in Queens, a man in a wheelchair robbed a bank and got away clean.

Obama to Washington Redskins: “No new stadium unless you change the team name.”

Episcopalians vote to allow gay marriage in churches. Seems like every time mainline Protestants have a choice between making God happy and making gays happy…

As nuclear talks stall (again) Iran collects 13 tons of gold. Someone please explain to Obama and Kerry the meaning of the word “negotiation.” They seem to think giving the other side everything they want first, is how you make a deal.

National Geographic blames North Carolina shark attacks on Global Warming. Well of course. And if the sharks stop biting people, that will be caused by Global Warming, too.

While fighting for gag orders on defense attorneys… Marilyn Mosby was posing for a photo spread in Vogue, getting interviewed by Cosmopolitan, and appearing on stage with the artist formerly and currently (last we heard anyway) known as Prince.

The power of dumb ideas.

“Sometime this summer, a United Airlines flight will take off from Los Angeles International Airport bound for San Francisco using fuel generated from farm waste and oils derived from animal fats.”

This could go from dumb to ugly: if they land in San Francisco smelling like French fries and the lefties discover they had trans fats in the jet fuel, there’ll be riots.

Elena Kagan in 2009:

“There is no federal constitutional right to same-sex marriage.”

How much does it cost to buy a Republican soul? Well, to get TPA passed, it was $9 million for McConnell’s soul, $5 million for Boehner’s, and $2 million for Ryan’s.

India has a solution for Global Warming: Heat-tolerant dwarf cows.

David Stockman explains what the real unemployment rate is:

“…the Fed’s current “soft” target of 5.2% on the U-3 unemployment rate is downright ridiculous… The U-3 unemployment rate as a proxy for full employment does not even make it as primitive grade school economics.

“At the present time, there are 210 million adult Americans between the ages of 16 and 68—to take a plausible measure of the potential work force. That amounts to 420 billion potential labor hours, if we accept the convention that all adults are at least theoretically capable of holding a full-time job (2,000 hours/year) and pulling their share of society’s need for production and work effort.

“By contrast, during 2014 only 240 billion hours were actually supplied to the US economy, according to the BLS estimates. Technically, therefore, there were 180 billion unemployed labor hours, meaning that the real unemployment rate was 42.9%, not 5.5%!”

Walmart hypocrisy is the icing on the cake. Walmart refused to make a cake with a Confederate battle flag and the words, “HERITAGE NOT HATE,” but they were happy to sell a cake with the ISIS battle flag.

Politico Magazine says we should stop measuring GDP. Could this have something to do with how poorly the economy is performing under Obama’s mis-management?