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It’s a cookbook! So much that is going on with the Republicans these days makes so little sense. Don’t the rules of politics still apply? Why have they doubled down and then again on all this bat shit crazy stuff? Is it we liberals who have gone batty and we are just perceiving the GOPContinue reading “It’s a cookbook!”

Renaming schools to sever symbolic connections to past leaders who are now deemed out of touch or even evil is an issue stomping through our cities. Portland, where stomping is something of pastime, is going at it with both Birkenstock-shod feet. In recent years, the school district has been remaking older schools into 21st centuryContinue reading “James Madison Never Slept Here”

Extreme speech. Inflammatory speech. Misleading speech. Misinformed speech. Just plain dumb speech. I am continuing my Ode to the Gatekeeper. Two weeks into Trump’s twitter ban, more shoes have fallen. But the right has not been entirely muffled. Taking away your unfettered access to a megaphone Is not the same thing. Unfiltered speech is notContinue reading “Speak the speech, I prithee”

Donald Trump has been booted from Twitter for inciting violence, but he still has the nuclear codes with which he can do more than incite violence. And the power to order the military into action. Pundits can decry this seeming anomaly and bluster about the irony, but this strange place we find ourselves brings usContinue reading “Donald Trump vs. Twitter: The return of the Gatekeeper (maybe)”