I wish I knew what the hell the Republican Party wants. Maybe I’d know how to help them. I know a lot of conservatives, and we disagree sometimes, but we work things out. I know that as a country, we need to work stuff like that out all the time. This is America, and I want us to pull together as a country. The trouble...
America’s gun problem drives us insane. Unfortunately, banning assault guns falls apart when anyone with a CNC mill can make their own.
I can’t tell if we’re insane or stupid. We see the collapse of the two-party system into a criminal kleptocracy, and yet we keep pretending it’s something else. I started this with the Stoneman Douglas High School deaths. It still hurts to think about it, but we have another mass shooting in another school. We see the broken and bloody bodies of our children on...
Like many Republicans before him, Trump and his administration talk about people as either good or bad. That’s a child’s concept, and a political tactic. Republican started the approach decades ago under Lee Atwater, but Trump took Atwater’s noxious toy and just ran with it. He frames almost every disagreement as combat between good and evil. This tactic isn’t just infantile nonsense; it corrupts any conversation it...
I winced at the idea of watching Lester Holt’s interview with Vice President Mike Pence on NBC, but I did it anyway. South Korea is finally opening new channels with the North. That’s a good thing. And then there’s Mike Pence. So I listened to his calm, reasonable, and fatherly voice intoning utter barking madness. Remember: this is the man who might become President. Pence...
Will the Nunes memo matter? Devin Nunes (seriously, what a stooge) issued his Republican-only, drafted-by-the-White-House memo. It’s an obvious sham. Read it, and it’s painfully clear the Republican party of law and order released Top Secret information for what became, at best, a limp excuse. Even so, it’s hard to know how much difference that’ll make. Using their bespoke media, Republicans have been saturating their...
I’m finally getting to Trump’s State of the Union (SOTU) speech, but I find I don’t care. It was what I expected, but less. What did surprise me was the strength and intensity of the Democratic response. “Wait, what?” you ask. “The SOTU response? That dead fish?!?” I know! But, hand to god, it was the best part of the evening. Ahead of time, the...
Americans have a right to be proud of our democratic government and our free market economy, despite its many flaws. We defend that democracy against near-constant assault by self-serving and predatory politicians, election manipulation by large financial players, and now by foreign opponents meddling in information, elections, and even privacy. But the newest assault may be the worst: information control, the attack against knowledge itself....
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