Outside the Beltway

Time to search for Spock.

Our current round of speech repression may prove worse than McCarthyism.

Allegations of shutting down an investigation.

Reality is easier to ignore if you just pretend it isn’t there.

Ramping up the H-1B fees is not a good idea.

Restricting those who report on the Pentagon.

People are weird.

An attempt to connect higher education and political violence.

Data? How quaint.

“Layered Water Colors”

As well as the politics that have followed.

When empathy goes too far.

The FCC Chair went on a podcast and now Kimmel is on indefinite hiatus.

Naturalized citizens advance and vivify the American experiment. 

The actor and director is gone at 89.

Cancel culture on steroids.

Ancient Geeks episode 32: Elric of Melniboné.

“He that spits against the Wind, spits in his own Face.”

We’re not alone in dysfunctional politics.

He has a solution for homelessness.

Yes it was said. No the context doesn’t make it better.

An illustration from the Charlie Kirk discourse as to why stories like the TAMU firing matter.

On politics, guns, and people killing people

A little bit more than the law would allow.

Birds of a feather and all that.

“Giants in the Distance”

Memories are fading, as they are wont to do.

To be fully human requires living with and in sometimes unresolvable contradictions

A shocking, but not surprising, event. I fear it’s a harbinger rather than an outlier.

More signs of flaws in the Trump economy.

Trump’s response to the Kirk assassination is to try and further divide us.

We must choose hope over despair.

Another day, another step closer towards military policing in the US.