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This Is What Calamity Looks Like

Nov 117 min read

This Is What Calamity Looks Like

And so we enter a new era, likely to last several decades at least. I spent Nov. 6 walking a cobbled beach through the fog, a...

Juris Imprudence

Jul 307 min read

Juris Imprudence

(Or, "It's Official: The Supreme Court Ignores Its Own Precedent") I promised a post on the Supreme Court's recent decision granting...

The Real Danger (guest post)

Jul 36 min read

The Real Danger (guest post)

I can't claim credit for the following post; it's the brainchild of a friend of mine, the most brilliant analyst of democracy -- and what...

Withdraw

Jul 13 min read

Withdraw

As I was halfway through writing this essay, the Supreme Court decision came down granting Donald Trump immunity from prosecution for...

Gerontocracy

Sep 30, 20234 min read

Gerontocracy

California Senator Diane Feinstein, may she finally rest, died in office on September 28. That’s how she wanted it. She clove to that...

Clarity At Last

Aug 16, 20233 min read

Clarity At Last

Addendum appended 21 August, 2023 In these days of double-standards and the blurring of lines — between true and not true, right and...

Grain

Jul 21, 20233 min read

Grain

“Russia has dealt another blow to the world’s most vulnerable,” U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield said upon...

Dirge

Jun 9, 20235 min read

Dirge

by Lisa Hupp, courtesy, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Before I get into what I intended to write this morning, a word about the federal...

Priorities

Jun 5, 20234 min read

Priorities

(Photo by Anne Way Bernard, courtesy of Appalachian Voices) So. This weekend, President Joe Biden signed a bill into law suspending the...

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