View From the Cheap Seats – My Naiveté
I knew I shouldn’t have done it. I knew it was a mistake. My wife, we’ll call her “Eve”, told me to check out this post on Nextdoor. She told me that this serpent fellow told her that it would be ok to read a Nextdoor post. As usual, the …
Where the Vaccine Race Stands
Across 2021, we will only make significant progress against the pandemic by also doing the things we needed to do in 2020.
View From the Cheap Seats – The Toll is Starting to Add Up
We used to be able to agree on the facts and work out compromises based on those facts. That is no longer the case and is very dangerous.
Trump Decided to Kill a Bunch of Gold Star Mothers
How many of these families, who already paid the ultimate price for their patriotism, will pay with yet another loss?
Facebook May Be Democracy’s Best Hope
From polarization to spam, the problems of social media are the problems of democracy.
Highlights From the NYT’s Trump Tax Return Bombshell
The Times published their review of two decades of tax returns from Trump and the Trump Org, and it is glorious.
Picking a Thread From the Yarn Pile
These are some of the concepts vying for my attention. Which ones do you think are most relevant/interesting right now?
Republicans Love Abortion
If Americans come to believe that their most fundamental rights to medical care and reproduction depend on political engagement, rather than on the wisdom of some robed council of elders, the impact to Republicans’ minority governing strategy will be catastrophic.