Stonekettle Station

 It's election day.  Yeah, it's an off year and, yeah, these are small local elections, and yeah, you probably don't care much. ...

  Stimulus.  Or perhaps "bait" is a better word.  Yes. Bait. Sometimes my comments are bait. I mean, no matter what  I post, it...

  [Update below] I will be a little scarce around here for the next week or so.  I have to drive to the middle of Canada with my son in orde...

   Charles Ernest Grassley. Republican Senator from the state of Iowa. He's 88-years-old, he's in his seventh term, four decades in ...

   I am suspicious of any ideology that deals in absolutes.  I am suspicious of any cause whose sacred principles require  others  to make a...

  Fox News headline this morning.  Democrat -- DEMOCRAT -- Tammy Duckworth hasn't paid property tax on her Illinois home since 2015, rep...

I wrote this two years ago when Thunberg was 16 and after she spoke at the UN. It was a post on Facebook and a short thread on Twitter. The ...

   Is it just me?  Am I the only one sick and tired of being held hostage every year?  A bunch of spoiled miserable children pretending to b...

Ladies and Gentlemen, my Congressman.  We're so proud. It's certainly no surprise a privileged white Southern Republican who was ele...

I've been mostly offline the last few days dealing with some real world issues.  So, I missed it but I assume Trump is currently being r...

  Remember the John Hughes movie Weird Science? It was a simpler time back then and Gary and Wyatt, a couple of socially awkward outcast dor...

 I've been mostly offline all day.  Today was the first day it hasn't rained in three weeks. So, I figured I'd better mow some g...