Gene McCarthy and American goodness
Public support depends on trust and openness. Citizens do not trust leaders who operate in secret, or who lie about what they have done.
Monthly Archives: November 2018
Reproductive rights and the Supreme Court
Yet we appear to have lost our confidence that efforts to compromise questions like reproductive rights can ever result in even partial agreement. At that point, the only acceptable settlement is divorce.
Kennedy’s last words
When we let Kennedy’s murderers go, they recreated the country in their own image: a country of bondage, war, and bitter quarrels. To reclaim Kennedy’s vision, reclaim power from the people who killed him.
Methods to evaluate stories
When governments operate in secrecy, trust in government goes down. Rumors circulate about what government is up to.
KKK, ICE, intimidation, and law
When you talk about use of cruelty to instill fear, the KKK and ICE have a good deal in common.
End of freedom at Reed
Reedies Against Racism undertook a mutiny, and succeeded. Consequently, they destroyed in twenty-four months, a set of traditions that developed over more than a century.
NATO’s purpose and future
The U. S. renounced its leadership of NATO seventeen years ago. After Trump’s extraordinary, two-year tirade against the alliance and its members, Macron wonders why we hang around.
Bracamontes ad on Sunday Night Football
The ad is the worst piece of garbage dressed up as political propaganda I’ve ever seen. It is so bad I would not put it down my gargage disposal, because it would muck it up.
Blood politics
Just as all is fair in war, no presumption of innocence exists in politics. To take the recent Supreme Court …
Media vs. the president
His battle with the security state promises to be hard fought. His battle with mainstream media does not even rise to the level of entertainment anymore. The contest is too unbalanced.
The Jeffersonian 