This has been a slow week for writing here because it’s been a demanding week at the day job. These things happen. Oddly, it’s been a banner week for reader traffic here even with fewer new posts than I normally…
C’mon Democrats: Zero Votes For Fascism
I do realize that calling on the Congressional Democrats to actually do something substantive to prevent the fascist-dictator-ization of the United States is kinda a long shot; it’s never worked yet. But they’re what we have. You go into a…
Digital Sovereignty: Not Just For Countries
The phrase “digital sovereignty” is much in use these days. Well, it is in the parts of the Internet that I frequent. Unless you do this stuff for a living, you may see it a lot less often than I…
Democracy: You Can’t Participate If You Don’t Know It’s Happening
So, last night I went looking to find what elected offices will be on the next election’s ballot and who’s running for them so I could contact them all about the pledge I posted yesterday. And it turns out that…
Party Time: A Pledge To Make Your Country Clean And Beautiful
This is the eighth entry in a series: Yesterday I suggested that, since it’s not possible at this point for any new political party to get on the ballot for this year’s elections (at least, in California; I don’t know…
Party Time: What Can A New Party Actually Do?
This is the seventh entry in a series: I don’t have time to research the systems in other states so I’ll just be talking about California. What you can’t do (in California) as a new political party is put candidates…
You Should Read This: Trump is openly trying to steal the midterms
Constitutional law professor Paul Campos of the Lawyers, Guns & Money blog has appeared here under the Read This tag before. And for good reason. He sees the current situation more clearly than their other authors do, and much more…
Party Time: Is Now Too Late For A New Opposition Party?
This is the sixth entry in an increasingly-long series: And I’m gonna answer the title question with the same cop-out answer as in the previous post: yes, and also no. It really depends on what you mean by too late.…