Wow. I was not expecting Pete to be the first one to step down after Tom Steyer. I thought the next to drop would be Amy Klobuchar, but not until after Super Tuesday. I believe her ego is so big that despite knowing that her candidacy is obviously not viable at this point, she would …
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It’s about time I post an update on my 2020 goals. MAGFest was cool. Disney World was pretty cool as usual. I haven’t been updating this site as much as I think I should, but I figure a little is better than none. I haven’t been super diligent with my diet and exercise for a …
The difference between the left and the center is that the center wants to fix the same problems as the left, without challenging the existing power structure. This has worked for a while in terms of being able to “get things done” (a favorite refrain of centrists) since the 1% is not threatened by them …
This looks hilarious. I might have to consider a subscription to SHOWTIME.
In the last debate, Buttigieg delivered this astounding (and obviously rehearsed) line to try to paint Bernie Sanders’ activism in a negative light, and his campaign team liked it so much they copied it into a tweet (since deleted): We can’t afford a scenario where it comes down to Donald Trump with his nostalgia for …
As expected, the worst, most eye-rolling line of the latest Democratic Presidential primary debate came from Amy Klobuchar: I have an idea of how we could stop sexism on the internet: We could nominate a woman for president of the United States. I think that might go a long way if we showed our stuff …
Salon published an interesting article about the “BernieBro” myth that speculates that a large part of the reason that journalists and pundits believe there is a misogyny problem uniquely among Bernie Sanders supporters is due to assuming the behavior they are witnessing on Twitter is accurately representative of the whole country when in reality it …
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops. Stephen Jay Gould, The Panda’s Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History, 1980
I’m frustrated by the terrible moderation in the January Democratic debate, but I’m most disappointed in Elizabeth Warren. As mentioned in my previous post, the moderator asked Bernie why (not if) he said that a woman could not win the election, Bernie refuted, the moderator ignored him and then asked Senator Warren what she thought …
On Twitter, #CNNisTrash began trending after the January Democratic Debate moderated by CNN, and it is well-earned. CNN’s moderators, especially Abby Phillip, showed very obvious bias against Bernie Sanders, sometimes in almost cartoonish ways. I’ll repeat their loaded questions, with highlights added: Wolf Blitzer: Sen. Sanders, in the wake of the Iran crisis, Iran’s Ayatollah …