Who won.
By rights,Trump should have been easy to beat, and even Biden should have been able to take this race in a walk. What went wrong?
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Lock X Up.
It’s full fledged campaign season again, folks – my very favorite time of every four year cycle … not. Elections are necessary but painful, essential but insufficient, and so on. I acknowledge all of that and will participate, as well as encourage others to do so, but god don’t they make it a pain in … Continue reading Lock X Up.
Handmaid’s tale.
Barrett is an extremist, and a relatively young one at that – if she is confirmed, she will probably serve on that court for forty years or more.
Slow progress.
I feel like the two sides in this election are playing different games. Our side gets outraged, while the other continues pulling everything apart.
Dream off.
Whoever does the incidental music score for my dreams is a freaking hack.
Bad start.
The story of Iowa is, more votes loses, fewer votes wins. What does that sound like? Is this the way all elections function in America now?
T’is the seizin’.
As dyed in the wool collectivists, we are merely seeking shelter where shelter is available (such as it is), but that carries little weight with the local constabulary, whose minions are apparently under orders to evict us in time for the Christmas pageant.
Inside July (2019).
We sent Marvin (my personal robot assistant) to read our upstairs neighbors the riot act, and he got his ass handed to him. I mean literally – they removed his ass and handed it to him, then kicked him down the stairs.
That thing that matters.
Activism is vital, crucial, particularly as it relates to ground-level organizing, but we cannot neglect a progressive electoral strategy – one that both strives to move the country in a more leftward direction, while at minimum reducing harm to the most vulnerable populations.
Empire news.
You’d think that any outlet that was as flat-footed as NPR was in the run-up to the Iraq War might have learned enough from the experience not to mindlessly serve the interests of a bellicose administration set on regime change. And you would be disappointed.