It’s January 16, 2020, and I’m calling the election. It’s Trump, God help us.
I had this revelation not during the debates on the 14th, when it became apparent CNN’s production staff was attempting to provoke a fight between Warren and Sanders by asking carefully orchestrated questions. It wasn’t on the 15th when they released a private hot-mike conversation that immediately followed the debate. No, it’s when (more…)
If you’ve been reading my stuff for any amount of time, you might remember that I was a pretty fervent supporter of Gary Johnson in 2016. Now, I’m no Libertarian; likewise, I don’t smoke pot. I just really dislike both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, and I couldn’t bring myself to vote for either one.
(Not to worry; I voted in Maryland. I didn’t get Trump elected.)
This time around, the most prominent Libertarian is running as a Republican. That’s only fair, since the most prominent Socialist (more…)
In case you missed it, the March For Science is taking place today. Thousands have gathered on the National Mall, tens of thousands in other cities across the country and around the world. Some came to protest the President’s policies, others to demonstrate in favor of science. Each goal is laudable; protests are a vital portion of the societal dialogue, and positive demonstrations are if anything more valuable because they are so rare.
And yet, I’m not marching. (more…)
Those who know Spider Jerusalem already know this, and those who don’t know him could care less. Too many of you don’t know him.
Twenty years ago there was a new comic book out under one of DC’s fringe labels — yeah, Vertigo. “Transmetropolitan”. Warren Ellis, Darick Robertson. I stole their art. I don’t get paid for this; they can sue me. Either way: Read. It. Read it now. Go out and buy it and read it.
It was some serious brain-twisting, a mess, a work of paranoid comic genius that showed a horrifyingly plausible (more…)
Let me tell you a story.
Once upon a time, there was a candidate for president who was doing daily interviews and talk shows, doing his level best to get his message out and to snag any publicity he could manage. His numbers were rising after a long slump, and he’d just gotten some good press from an over-the-top (more…)
A vote for a third party is a vote against. Not against Republicans or Democrats individually, but against the system that says one or the other is inevitable, that divides us against one another and distracts us away from finding common ground. Environmentalists and hunters both love the wild; they should work together. The NRA probably has some excellent ideas about gun control (in addition to Use both hands) but (more…)
I wasn’t going to watch it.
After all: Why bother? The nation just watched Donald Trump’s campaign implode over something horribly distasteful; we mostly agree now that he has no chance to win. And I really dislike Senator Clinton*. So why put myself through that torment? (more…)
The longer I spend talking to people about the upcoming presidential elections, the more I’m convinced that Mencken was right: The American people know what they want, and deserve to get it — good and hard. (more…)
NOTE: This is intended as a response to an article by T. N. Reider published at “The Conversation” entitled “Is the ‘lesser of two evils’ an ethical choice for voters?” That article is well-written, and I recommend reading it. All quotes come from there.
As I’ve discussed in other articles, despair is endemic in this country. The presidential politics of this year underline this in a fashion seldom seen before, with the fiercest supporters of each candidate shouting loudly that their pick for president isn’t quite as bad as the only other choice. People have stopped questioning the system, which seems to guarantee that the worst possible candidate always gains their party’s nomination. Instead they like to shout at one another about how the other option is worse.
One thing that cannot be denied: Americans hate both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, and they do so in record numbers. We haven’t seen this level (more…)
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