You can find out more at his Mother Jones author page, his Wikipedia page or his personal blog. His contribution to our civil society will be sorely missed now, when it is needed most. He was a keen observer of…
Cars Or Politics: Show Off The Alternatives
I’m all for folks picketing business whose owners they don’t like, or picketing government offices whose officials they don’t like. Fine, traditional American First Amendment stuff there. But I think it’s more useful to say what you want to happen…
No, Seriously: Shut It All Down Before It’s Too Late
The Democratic Party are so far proving to be as useless as they’ve always been when it comes to being the opposition party. (To be fair, they’ve been pretty bad at governing too; this fiasco could have all been avoided…
Calexit: Dumb Name, Smart Idea
So, California has an independence movement. I know; this is not a surprise. (Many states, mostly Republican party strongholds, have California independence movements these days; they love to say they want us out of the Union. We’re one of the…
Bankers’ War: Costly And Ineffective
I think it’s quite obvious now that just funding the defense of Ukraine has been absurdly expensive and not particularly effective. I mean, Ukraine is still there, so it’s kinda effective. But the war is still going with no just…
Political Climate Change: NOAA Needs An Ark
There’s a faction in U.S. politics that thinks the State shouldn’t be doing anything that someone could be making a profit from. And they really hate NOAA. NOAA is less than popular with the climate-change-is-a-hoax faction, too. And since these…
Time Is Money: So Let’s Make Money Be Time
I was discussing the coup with a neighbor this weekend, and said that I would not be surprised if in 6 months we had no functional organizations left above the state level; their response was “no, in 3 months”. So…
Freedom Ferrets: Enough Is More Than Enough
“You’ve done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?” – Joseph Welch It shall not stand. This nonsense had already gone too far, but now they’re risking the only surviving population…
Party Hearty: Holding Fewer Elections Can Be More Democratic
I am getting seriously sick of elections in the U.S. being decided by: This is dumb, wrong and an affront to the idea of “democracy”. I have done this rant before, so I’ll try to keep it short this time.…
First Things First: Have A Philosophy
If, like me, you look at the world every day and think “Damn; that’s messed up” then a good place to start is to figure out what political philosophies appeal to you. Because that gives you standards by which to…