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Over It
When I started blogging, back in 2003, it was about politics. Mostly about John Kerry being unfit to be President due to his self-confessed war crimes. Yes, really. But that was a long time ago, and now we are faced with the reality that the next President will be, regardless of who wins, manifestly unfit […]
Some years ago, a friend of mine, on reading the then-new Harry Potter book’s line about a ‘wretched American President’ declared he was done. And that Rowling had, in intending to insult Bush, instead insulted Clinton, the whole of the series (excepting Philosopher’s Stone) being set in the Clinton administration. Seems she forgot her own […]
Democratic Platform – Some Questions
[sta_anchor id=”top”]So, as I hope we all know, I am so not a Democrat. I want to go over some of the planks on their platform draft, and ask some pointed questions – because some of this is common sense, and some of it is a sign they need to hire someone who understands cost […]
In Response To ‘Common Sense Gun Laws’
Summary: No such animal. Well, not exactly. There can be some common sense that is not an infringement on the 2nd Amendment, but so far it seems like that is the land beyond the fields we know. Inaccessible and alien. But there is a place for regulation that is at once smart, effective, and not […]
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 […]
Over It
When I started blogging, back in 2003, it was about politics. Mostly about John Kerry being unfit to be President due to his self-confessed war crimes. Yes, really. But that was a long time ago, and now we are faced with the reality that the next President will be, regardless of who wins, manifestly unfit […]
Some years ago, a friend of mine, on reading the then-new Harry Potter book’s line about a ‘wretched American President’ declared he was done. And that Rowling had, in intending to insult Bush, instead insulted Clinton, the whole of the series (excepting Philosopher’s Stone) being set in the Clinton administration. Seems she forgot her own […]
Democratic Platform – Some Questions
[sta_anchor id=”top”]So, as I hope we all know, I am so not a Democrat. I want to go over some of the planks on their platform draft, and ask some pointed questions – because some of this is common sense, and some of it is a sign they need to hire someone who understands cost […]
In Response To ‘Common Sense Gun Laws’
Summary: No such animal. Well, not exactly. There can be some common sense that is not an infringement on the 2nd Amendment, but so far it seems like that is the land beyond the fields we know. Inaccessible and alien. But there is a place for regulation that is at once smart, effective, and not […]
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 […]