I realized something shocking today. We’re on the Saturday before “the most consequential” presidential election of our lives and I haven’t written a single thing about it. I checked and it’s actually been about two years since I’ve posted anything political at all. I used to post political things all the time. What’s changed in…
The classified documents found at Mar-a-Lago and Biden’s Delaware residence have been all over the news lately. It’s the kind of story I usually try to avoid. It’s too depressing to read about how full of idiots our government is. But the headlines have been everywhere, so I have questions. Maybe someone following the story…
The culture war is a veritable bonanza of logical fallacies. There are tons of ad hominems, straw people, slippery slopes, red herrings, and false dilemmas. These fallacies are not confined to one side or the other. This just seems to be how the culture war is fought. Of all the fallacies that get thrown around,…
Kevin McCarthy really wants to be the next Speaker of the House. I mean he really wants it. And he’s close. He can probably taste it. The problem is that the House has voted six times and McCarthy has lost all six. My first thought is that this whole thing is objectively funny. Talk about…
I woke up to the headline that the House of Representatives are releasing six years’ worth of Trump’s tax returns. Am I the only one who doesn’t care? All I felt upon reading the headline was a stab of annoyance at the Democrats. Like everything that the Democrats seem to do, it’s too little and…
In Paul Simon’s song “The Only Living Boy in New York” (It’s an absolutely fantastic song, by the way.) there’s the line, “I can gather all the news I need on the weather report.” Truer words have never been sung. I made the mistake of reading a couple of articles on the January 6th hearings…
President Biden signed into law the Respect for Marriage Act earlier today. I figured that would be an easy thing to write about. I tried and nothing came out. I just don’t have anything to say about the new law. I mean, I think it’s a good thing. It feels like one of the few…
I’ve been following the news about the protests in Iran, mostly because police brutality is a subject I’m interested in and write about regularly. But it’s been hard to discern exactly what’s going on there because of the breathless way that American news commentators have talked about them. One phrase that’s continually thrown around is…
I wrote about this topic almost two two years ago. Back then, I was speaking in generalizations since there was no political office I was interested in. But last week, Mayor Luke Bronin announced that he wouldn’t seek a third term as the leader of Hartford. So there’s a job opening. The question is, should…
Whenever I see a car or house that’s flying an American flag, I become wary. To me, displaying the flag is indicative of a type of chauvinism that ignores the bigotry, prejudice and violence of American history- after all, if you’re aware of how America has treated ethnic and religious minorities and women, then how…
