A Promised Land

America as a Developing Country

American Carnage

Remove Trump from office now. He’s dangerous.

Make America Great Again

Some thoughts on what’s going on right now in DC.

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My Chat With a Conspiracist

And why he’s better than his would-be betters in the Senate's "Sedition Caucus."

Reliable Sources

Out in the Street

As I strolled down the main commercial drag of my new hometown of Benicia, California yesterday, a fellow offered me a small slip of paper and asked, “Do you know how the Chinese Communist Party stole the election? Check out the video from this paper.” The slip recommended a “Who’s Stealing America” documentary on the front and supposedly reliable news sources on the back.

The guy had a mask on, kept his social distance and seemed nice enough, so I engaged. Our chat went something like this:

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Light at the End of the Dumpster Fire

2020 was literally catastrophic. But here are 20 big ways in which it wasn’t all bad.

For whatever reason, I still recall a 1997 TV ad tag line for the telecommunications company MCI: “Is this a great time or what?”

No sane person would say that about 2020. The year brought us an endless array of developments to despair about. I’ve decried some myself, such as here and here.

Rather than add another compendium of miseries to the universe, I’ll instead note some things that went right or where the good at least mitigated the bad. Here are 20 for 2020.

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Georgia (Still) on My Mind

Early data for the Senate runoffs is encouraging.

As an update to my last post about next Tuesday’s crucial Senate elections in Georgia, some new data point in positive Democratic directions for those January 5 runoffs.

The latest fivethirtyeight.com polling averages show modest upticks and leads for both Democrats. Raphael Warnock is up nearly two points over Kelly Loeffler. Jon Ossoff has erased a slight deficit to now edge David Perdue by one point.

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Georgia Pitch

Both Senate races are winnable. What we can do.

Unfortunate Inattention

Despite the stakes, most news outlets and Americans are paying relatively little heed to the most important non-presidential U.S. elections in our lifetimes: the two Georgia Senate runoff races, which will be decided on January 5.

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