Category: Comment Sandbox

[OK boys and girls, it's time for SCOTUS roulette.  Make known your odds that one of your favorite candidates will get the presidential nod.  gjr]

[Here's the next batch of fresh sand.  I find it interesting how the intersection of what interests me and RR's commenters goes up and down.  It appears that the interests of our most voluble readers pretty much track the news cycle, often leaving unattended more fundamental and systemic events/trends that impact our lives and country. …

[Apologies again for that last sandbox getting a bit long of tooth.  Here's some fresh sand in which to continue those ever engaging discussions about the local scene – as we are told, 'All politics is local' (but let's not get carried away). ;-)  gjr]

[A left-leaning friend, and no friend of Trump, cites the WaPo's latest dire prediction of a coming debt-crash, what with all these companies buying back their stock, returning money to shareholders, and paying additional compensation to their employees.  Anyone else hunkering down?  gjr]

[Bolton’s chief of staff Fred Fleitz is drawing fire for co-authoring (with 15 others) a report on Islamic radicalism in the US which claims that “80% of U.S. mosques were incubators for subversion or violence” and that the real war with Islam is “in reality a clash of civilizations.” (Whoulda thought?!)  But no one is…