The Austin Editor 
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died last week from complications of metastatic pancreatic cancer. She was 87. If confirmed, Trump’s designated replacement for the vacancy would shift the Supreme Court to the right for years. But with some Republican senators balking, Mitch McConnell, the senate majority leader, is still weighing whether he has enough votes to … Read more
George Floyd allegedly, and likely unknowingly, used a counterfeit bill. Rayshard Brooks fell asleep in a Wendy’s drive thru. Philando Castile was pulled over for a traffic violation and reached to get his license like the officer asked him to. Sandra Bland was taken into custody for a minor traffic violation. Eric Garner was selling … Read more
Math is not that hard. No, the COVID death rate is NOT “0.04 percent.” Stop it. Just stop. Stop. Put down your pencils. Your middle school math teachers are embarrassed. To get an accurate death rate for the disease, you divide the deaths by the total cases that HAVE AN OUTCOME. Let’s walk this through. … Read more
Roger Williams tells an amateur DJ named Ed Chandler that people aren’t safe in Austin. Apparently there’s nothing to the capital city except “empty streets, painted over businesses and vacant buildings.” Racist comment at 2:35. Typical Republican idiot right here, folks. Williams (you may recall that he scammed the Paycheck Protection Program intended to help … Read more
Here’s Rick Wilson’s advice for Democrats: Focus on the 15 (or so) true battleground states, where moderates can be won over to the Biden/Harris side. Democrats can’t afford to run a 50-state campaign this year. They should only fight the Electoral College map. Reminder: The U.S. is a republic; not a democracy. The only way Dems … Read more
‘Month One’ Linkbuilding: Beyond Guest Posts & Citations There’s no one-size-fits-all SEO process. Even two businesses in the same industry, with the same number of employees, competing in the same market, will have different approach. That said, here’s one backlink-building your business might follow. I’ve used this method to rank my websites, and my clients’ … Read more
Back when he was just a candidate, Donald Trump promised to make discrimination against gays and lesbians legal again. Trump promised to roll back marriage equality. He promised to turn a blind eye to anti-transgender laws and repeal executive orders protecting the LGBTQ community. There are also the optics of Trump’s homophobia (the Trump administration … Read more
When I have clients who insist on seeing “all green lights” in Yoast’s dashboard, I try to explain to them that Yoast is like training wheels for SEO. If you’re an absolute beginner, it may be helpful. But if you’re in a competitive industry, you’re competing in the Tour De France. Training wheels are not … Read more
(And If You Vote For Him, So Are You) With fewer than 100 days until Election Day, I still hear Trump supporters ask “Do you have any actual evidence that Trump is a racist?” Um. Yeah. There’s a little bit of evidence out there. Let’s scratch the surface, shall we? Trump’s Twitter Account Is … Read more