Hillary needs to understand: She needs the votes of Bernie Democrats to win...
For full disclosure, I’m a Bernie fan.OK, I’m not especially interested in talking about who’s winning, who’s losing, what’s the delegate math, and that sort of thing. I get it. In football terms, the...
View ArticleLet us discern the spirits. Guess who Ted Cruz put on his Colorado leadership...
For all of the fury of the Hillary-Bernie War being fought at the moment, this is something that illustrates that for all the anger you feel towards that Other Democrat, he or she will still be a...
View ArticleDon't laugh too long. Van Jones is right. Trump can win. America IS that...
OK, there’s a diary, and I participated in that diary. We’re all pointing and laughing at the Republicans. Yes, it’s OK to have a little schadenfreude. BUT...Hold the celebration. You are making the...
View ArticleI'm fed up with toxic religion poisoning society against the LGBTQIA community.
I’m not sure what to think of the murderer who killed all those people at the Pulse in Orlando, whose name I shall omit. One one hand, he professed sympathy to extremist Islam groups including ISIS. On...
View ArticleBenedict Donald is likely in violation of the Logan Act.
From the news this morning, I found a couple of articles.The short version: In US law is the Logan Act, which forbids unauthorized private individuals from negotiating with adversarial foreign powers...
View ArticleBob Altemeyer has a new web site and a revised article on Donald Trump and...
A few months ago, I had the privilege of exchanging email with authoritarianism researcher Dr. Bob Altemeyer of the University of Manitoba. At that time, he was kind enough to write a short article on...
View ArticleTo the down-ballot races, fellow Kossacks!
I’m going to keep this short and sweet. And I can’t take too long — I’m juggling two jobs right now.This past couple of weeks, Donald Trump really shit the bed. Between two lousy debate performances,...
View ArticleStrategic Boycotts Begin Now. The DJT Resistance is live, courtesy of...
Shaun King has been hard at work, organizing a boycott campaign, and that campaign is live now.The DJT ResistanceWe’ve seen a lot of loosely-organized and spontaneous Internet boycotts of businesses,...
View ArticleValues and vision. Let's reboot the Democratic Party. No more "We suck less!"...
Well, I was drunk on rageahol for the past few days, and out of commission. Now, here’s my take on what happened. Donald Trump is going to be alleged President of the United States, and as a result,...
View ArticleNew rule, NEVER use the term "alt-right" without also using the word "Nazi".
I have a gripe. People are trying to suppress the term “alt-right”. This is meant well, because, well, they’re Nazis. Literally. As in waving swastikas, doing Heil Hitler salutes, hating Jewish people...
View ArticleTo the Squatter In Chief in the White House, I am not your monkey. Why we...
Required reading today, available free online: Gene Sharp’s From Dictatorship To Democracy, courtesy of the Albert Einstein Institute. Here, Sharp explains why we must say, as loud as we can, with a...
View Article/u/spez won't clean up Reddit. He needs alternative means of persuasion...
We’ve seen this story over and over.Reddit proclaims itself to be the “front page of the Internet”. And it’s very popular. Hell, I still hang out there. There’s lots of good people and good communities...
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