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Carly Fiorina's Revealing Calculus

December 17, 2019

File under "things that should be an Onion headline, but aren't": Aaron Blake @AaronBlakeAn actual headline: “Carly Fiorina says it is 'vital' Trump be...

The Election Is Not Elective

December 16, 2019

I've said before that the limit on what Trump will do is whatever he's allowed to do. And since he is largely immune to external sources of shame, I don't...

Dirty Donald Gets His Due

December 14, 2019

So I check in on Twitter this morning and I see that #DirtyDonald is trending in the United States. Chris Cuomo apparently said it. But guess who said it...

The Flying Camel Has Landed

December 13, 2019

So, the Flying Camel, the underground jazz club and literary cafe in downtown Hagerstown that I have been pleased to be a part of first as a customer and...

Quick Hits & Stray Thoughts (12/13/2019)

December 13, 2019

Danny Aiello was the first person I ever heard say the word "Nintendo" on TV, outside of a commercial or newscast. It was jarring at the time. An adult, a...

Trump's Economy-Sized Bribe

December 13, 2019

Isn't it weird how a man wants everyone to believe he would never stoop to bribery also expresses amazement that he would be impeached for electoral crimes...

Observations from a Tactical Retreat

December 12, 2019

Last time I took a Twitter break, I utterly failed in my long-term goal to look at and change the way I used Twitter. That time my break was precipitated by...

Trailing Vindicators

December 12, 2019

To Trump's defenders and boosters, there's only one quote from Inspector General Michael Horowitz that matters. It wasn't in his report, but in his testimony...

The Impersistence of Memory

December 11, 2019

Boy, time and memory are both weird. I have very vivid memories of my social media break last year, which was a big deal because I had never done anything...

Truth Coming Out Of Her Well To Pull On Her Boots

December 11, 2019

During my hiatus, I'm staying "off Twitter" in the sense that I'm not interacting with it or posting to it except using sharing tools for my content (like...

Television Is A Flat Circle

December 11, 2019

We stopped watching the various DC superhero shows back in whatever year Legends of Tomorrow debuted. It wasn't a super deliberate choice. Arrow had begun to...

A Little More Personal: Speculative Functions and Breaking Points

December 11, 2019

Executive function is a harsh mistress. Last year I took like a month-long break from social media when I realized how burned out I was from election...

Playing For All The Marbles

December 9, 2019

A long time ago, before there were Pokemon, before there were Beyblades, even before anybody thought to gather Magic cards, the things that children...

The Duality of Donald

December 4, 2019

So, Donald Trump met with a chilly reception on his overseas trip, with cameras and microphones capturing two embarrassments. Hannah Jane Parkinson...

Scenes From A Hostage Situation

December 3, 2019

The House has released its preliminary findings on impeachment. Adam Schiff @RepAdamSchiffThe impeachment inquiry uncovered overwhelming and uncontested...

A Little More Personal: Living for the Living

Premium post · December 3, 2019

It's been not quite half a year since my mother died and (in case you haven't noticed) I am using my newsletter a bit like a blog in order to process some...

Where A Con Will, There's A Conway

December 2, 2019

George Conway quotedtweeted Kellyanne Conway today, to make a fairly banal slam/rejoinder on her tweet. George Conway @gtconway3dYour boss apparently thought...

A Little More Personal: Loss at a Distance

Premium post · December 2, 2019

I miss my mother the most when I have something I would want to tell her about. I didn't always have a very open relationship with my mother. The...

...and the story continues.

November 27, 2019

So I've posted a third story draft involving my character Space Hunter X-37 and the Big Galaxy setting over on my Patreon, and once again I'm going to share...

Donald Trump Is Beyond Censure

November 26, 2019

Recently, the editorial board of the Chicago Tribune came out against impeachment of Donald Trump, arguing instead that Congress should censure him for his...