I have just noticed that the letter "T" in the New York Times masthead font is a very good caricature of Donald Trump in 3/4 profile.

So which letter "T" captures Benedict Donald to a "T"? The "The" "T" or the time it appears in "Times"?

It captures his hair and jowels quite accurately.

*checks masthead*

OMG... TS is right! It's "T"-rump, and he's talking out of both sides of his mast. :)

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Hadn't quite thought of that idea. While to some extent it keeps the US in the minority and not all companies observe veterans day keeping it difficult for workers to vote...it would be a good compromise. I do not think that vets would object, in fact I could see some great GOTV ad campaigns.

Nothing could motivate much better than "if you really want to honor veterans and thank them for their service do it by voting on this Veterans day".

This is what happens when there is no fresh CW.com column to read while I caffeine-ate.

It's more fundamental than that. I'm migrating servers, and updating PHP, although I'm not sure what version yet. The site is currently on 4.4.2, which is ancient...

goode trickle -

Yeah, I agree. Voting should be a two-day, weekend affair. But the best compromise (to me) seems to be moving it to the SECOND Tuesday in Nov, and combining it with Veterans' Day. That way, Mitch wouldn't have anything to bitch about, because it wouldn't add another holiday to the federal calendar. Although the vets might be against it.

Best comment I've yet read pointed out that Mitch was getting his panties in a bunch over one additional fed. holiday after giving fed. workers a whole freakin' MONTH of paid holiday...

Mezzomamma -

I feel your pain. Or, I will, soon, as this upgrade progresses. It may actually take two sessions, just to warn everyone...

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Funny, isn't it, how Republican voting laws are natural justice or are practically mandated by scripture, but HR1, which actually ought to benefit voters of all stripes, is a 'power grab.'

For those of you that want to play "count the Mitch fibs", here is the link to the legislation.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/1/text#toc-HFCF939CAA6204AF6B40DEAFAC99FBBFA

Mitch's big tell when he is outright BS'ing is his smirk while giving a speech.

As far as HR1 goes, while I applaud the dems for pushing to make it a national holiday, I really wish they had pushed to also move the voting day to a weekend, like a majority of the rest of the world.

The tradition of voting on a Tuesday is nothing more that a tradition that is a relic much like the EC. If the Dems had pushed also moving the vote to a weekend date and having that be a national holiday it would really have made the Republican resistance to making voting access better that much more apparent and would also have made for some great sound bites to use in the upcoming election season.

Mitch was in true imperialist republican form today. As the autocratic transition of the republican party continues afoot they have stuck true to form and condemned some legislation to address problems that need fixing yet not promoting their own ideas to fix it. Dems need to point that out at every turn.

Somebody simply needs to inform Mitch McTurtle that it's a "power to the people grab" versus the "power to the Putin's puppet" that the spineless GOP have been ceding to Comrade Trump for quite awhile now. :)