This isn’t about toilet paper. In February, based on advice I was seeing from early alarm raisers, I bought a bunch of canned food and ramen, and other foods with…
politics
Get ready to live in Mistborn
Listening to a podcast episode discussion McConnell’s judges, and it made me think of the premise of Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn. In the world’s backstory, a group of heroes went on…
Treating the symptom
I’ve been saying for years, one of the things that scares me most about President Trump is when liberals focus on him as the problem, rather than the symptom. His…
Indiana – start asking now for Absentee-by-mail in May
In Indiana, absentee voting by mail is limited to a portion of the population – and requiring large numbers of people to stand in a cramped location for hours seems…
Ok. What’s next?
It’s dangerous to be a fan of a politician, but Sen. Warren is the kind of administrator & negotiator I want in my executive branch, and listened & responded to…
What Kavanaugh means for evangelical/Christian fundamentalist voters
You no longer have an excuse. In 2016, evangelical and Christian fundamentalist leaders said it was okay to vote for Trump, because he would give you the courts. You’ve got…
Oliver North
It seems strange that the NRA, chief proponents of the “good guy with a gun” myth, would appoint as president a person most famous for illegally supplying bad folks with…
Everyone deserves a fair hearing
And that a “fair hearing” includes “suffering consequences for the wrongs you have done” And that a “fair hearing” does not include badgering non-white politicians for their birth certificates And…
Tribalism and Branding Among Groups That Don’t Like Trump
“The Resistance” is not the Democratic Party. “The Resistance” is not Indivisible. Indivisible is not the Democratic Party. “The Resistance,” as it’s commonly referred to, is like Anonymous – there’s…
“A failed state is a political body that has disintegrated to a point where basic conditions and responsibilities of a sovereign government no longer function properly”
I don’t want to believe that we’re at a point where the party in power is saying it’s “playing politics” for the opposition to demand they (those in power) do…