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January Sixth
I wasn’t actually planning on writing anything to commemorate this anniversary. The media is full of commemorations and condemnations of what happened at the U.S. Capitol, just as surely as the Republican party is attempting to distort the true record of events into anything except their own complicity in an attempted coup d’état. This blog Continue reading
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The secret to Democrats’ future political success does not lie in selling out transgender people
One of my more self-destructive behaviors is plugging myself in to a social media stream for part of a day and exposing myself to other people’s “takes.” These “takes” are what we call the bite-sized pronouncements of opinion in reaction to the news of the day, as posted by people hoping their particular phraseology will Continue reading
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Now that that has happened
There isn’t a whole lot more that I have to say about what happened on November 5th this year, except that I meant every word I said two weeks ago, and that while I remain loath to predict anything, I will predict that it won’t be a month after Inauguration Day before Donald Trump gives Continue reading
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What is at stake in this election
I’m not in the business of making political predictions anymore. That isn’t to say that I don’t have ideas about what will happen, just that I am too well aware of all the things that might happen. The only thing you stand to gain from making these kinds of predictions is a reputation as a Continue reading
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