Archive for February 2018
Broken Glass, Broken Dreams, Donald Trump
In which our fearless editor struggles with a smashed windshield and the vague suspicion that things are going to get a lot worse before they get better. I write at a table in the Flying Star on Menual. The Star’s a local café and restaurant. They do pretty good food, really. Coffee’s not bad, too.…
Read MorePart III: Policy and the Trump Effect
Editor’s note: This is the third in a three part series on Julia Peacock, Candidate for California’s 42nd Congressional District For me, one of the saddest aspects of Trump’s candidacy and election is the meanness that enveloped citizens in the U.S. and its effect on the most vulnerable. After the election, Julia Peacock went to…
Read MoreHypocrisy Roundup
It was a good weekend if you’re the kind of person who likes to kick back, relax, read the news and then roll your eyes so hard that braindead Vegas slot jockeys reflexively thrust plastic cups under your jaw in the hopes that you’ll spit quarters. Aside from the Winter Olympics, last week apparently saw…
Read MoreSympathy For The Devil
To my immense surprise, not to say outright shock, I seem to be feeling a little sorry for Steve Bannon. Oh, don’t get me wrong. I don’t agree with a single word he says. In fact, I think many of his opinions are downright detestable. And, worse, he’s done a lot to legitimize ideas that…
Read MoreA Bargain Foul…Or Fair?
Editor’s Note: Cesar Vargas has recently posted in HuffPost an indictment of the Democratic Party’s recent deal with the GOP to keep the government in operation. Vargas argues that this amounted to a betrayal of the Dreamers, i.e., “undocumented immigrants brought to the country as children. However, our columnist William Albee strongly disagrees: I cannot…
Read MoreBut Can We Trust Them?
Right at the moment, I’m reading Michael Tomasky’s “The Worst Of The Worst” in the New York Review of Books. In it, he quite skillfully reviews David Frum’s Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic and Michael Wolf’s Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House. (By the way, we’ll be doing a review of…
Read MoreRussia Nuke A Post-Trump Message
In sum: Russia has leaked the news that it now has a cobalt-salted super-nuclear torpedo that threatens the world. However, it just might be that the “news” has more to do with sending a coded message to Post-Trump America than with any real military threat 1. Superweapon A few mornings back, I…
Read MorePart II: Education, Betsy DeVos, and Those Pesky Bears
Editor’s Note: this is the second in a three part series on Julia Peacock, who is running California’s 42nd Congressional District. Sadly, many people prefer to treat troubled youth as disposable children. But, there are individuals like Julia Peacock, who realize that a positive influence in their lives can have an enormous beneficial impact. She…
Read MoreOne More Cup Of Coffee…
By Luke Haines For all our complaining about society’s worrying slide towards fascism, it’s worth pointing out that the modern world still gets some things right in terms of kindness and tolerance. Take eugenics. Many ancient societies would kill children deemed to be physically or mentally unfit. These days, we support people with physical disabilities…
Read MoreWe Stand With The FBI
Our note to the men and women of the FBI: we’ve got your back. An Open Letter to the men and women of the Federal Bureau of Investigation: Greetings: We support you. We will defend you. We’ve got your back. When our friend (and LR Net’s founder) Matt Blanchfield did the meme above, we knew…
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