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Trump. Neither Superman Nor Lex Luthor
As this is rapidly becoming the realistic choice in November (and no, your Green/Libertarian/Birthday or other parties are not realistic), there has been a lot of discussion about how Donald Trump became the Republican candidate. It seems, from what I see, to boil down, on the Republican side, to two arguments. One is that he […]
In Support of Radical Free Speech
Seldom do state representatives make news. At least in a way that is not somehow tainted by scandal. Tennessee’s Martin Daniel (R) has done just that. And oy, the balls on this guy. He introduced a bill, the Tennessee Student Freedom of Speech Act, that put forth the intolerably radical proposition that students on college […]
Vote Already
It is the official election day in Illinois, and so far early voter turnout is (or is reported to be) setting records. I suspect that, unlike other cycles, this one has people worried. And with good reason. At no time in my life have I ever cast a vote that was as much against a […]
Protests
So a strange combination of the anti-Rahm Emanuel /Anita Alverez groups and the Black Lives Matter group(s) just passed by up here in the Gold Coast. I got some video, listed below. The protests were peaceful, with lots of shouting, not much shoving by the protesters, and total restraint (as usual) from the police. As […]
And Again…
Another shooting, another litany of the dead, and it is, of course, politicized before any motive is known. As I write this, there is no known reason Syed Rizwan Farook, Tashfeen Malik, and possibly a third person (many conflicting reports on that, so I’ll leave it as ‘possibly’) decided at some point to open fire at a […]
On Absolutism
Absolutism is an American love. It always has been – even when we compromise, we compromise into an absolute. The ‘Great Compromise’ in the Constitution? Still absolutely allowed slavery, encouraged it, even. We have never been a people that liked seeing more than one side of a story. Maybe it is human, but Americans take […]
Candidate Roulette: What Happened to Quality?
It is campaign season, and the parties are in full swing. For the Democrats, this means making Hillary look good, while she prays that Biden doesn’t enter the race. For Biden, this means weighing the opportunity to grope and grab more unsuspecting women vs not. The rest of the Democrat candidates sure are looking like […]