Matt Taibbi: To understand the bullshitter, think if him as a salesman who sells the experience of being sold to. Just what he says he is selling makes no difference to him.

The Democratic Party can't make a serious response because it has no serious response to America's problems, and its attempts to respond play into the bullshitter's hands.

I am no expert, but I think we should ignore his outrageous verbal provocations, and focus on the real harm he does, and the good we can do.

The bully backed off on his plan to close the newspaper Stars and Stripes.

A Tennessee thug faces criminal charges for attacking Andrew Golden, who was making a video of a traffic stop from a safe distance.

The thug should be charged with reckless endangerment for breathing, maskless, in Golden's face with no justification.

China has been working for 80 years to do away with Tibetan culture.

The methods developed in repression of the Uighurs may now be used to sinicize Tibetans. It's making me sinical about China's intentions ;-}.

It is true that Tibet was a feudal society in 1950. But ending feudalism did not have to be followed by assimilation, and forced inclusion in an even worse system of government. China could have ended the feudalism and left Tibetans mostly alone, and come out admired.

Australia's extractivist government plans to reduce environmental protections to permit more mining. Conservationists ask UNESCO to object since the change would imperil world heritage sites.