Observations from an election…

Featured image by Seve Helber of the AP via CBS News. Follow the link for the story. Glenn Youngkin pulled off the upset victory in Virginia, and Twitter blew up with accusations of White Supremacy. I’d like to offer my view on what I think happened, and what it means for the Democratic Party going […]

Realistic expectations…

Governor Newsome will stay Governor. I’m unsurprised. Realistically when the state got so crazy that it became nearly impossible for the little guy to succeed, most of the Republicans and moderates have abandoned ship. Those who remain are either dependent on the system, stubborn (I count myself among them), or desiring the insanity that defines […]

Definition of Insanity

Featured image from Expressive.com. Check out the site for more info on IT stuff (if you’re into that sort of thing…) Today is the California Gubernatorial Recall Election. Many people have been voting early, since my home state is continuing its pandemic produced universal mail in ballots (with some oddities, check out FactCheck.org’s breakdown of […]

So it begins.

If the American People wish to have any semblance of a country left, they must tell the people who think that it is acceptable to storm the capital loudly and collectively “NO.”

Ripples

H.L. Menken was absolutely right when he said that “Democracy is the theory that the American people know what they want and they deserve to get it good and hard.”

Take a breath.

Featured image by John Young. Follow the link for more of this artist’s work. I think that we can all take a collective breath. The Electoral College voted, Biden is now President-Elect. The lawsuits were thrown out, and the legal challenge clock has hit triple zeroes. The results were unsurprising to me, and I am […]

Savages

Human beings are complicated creatures, capable of both great good and great evil.

A Cali Libertarian’s Frustration

I try to follow Hanlon’s razor for these things, “Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.” And I think that there is a lot of stupidity in our discourse today.

Life is usually much more boring.

like it is a cataclysmic even in a Michael Bay film, queue explosions.

Why the process matters.

We must remember that in this particular instance, slow and steady is the speed we need.