Category: Politics
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I’m not the only one who must have noticed the wide partisan disparity in the number of voters in yesterday’s DFL and Republican primary elections in Minnesota. In the contests for US Senate, for example, there were about 697,000 ballots cast in the Democratic primary, and only about 406,500 in the Republican primary. The winning…
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I plugged Naomi Kritzer’s blog, here, with the explanation that her coverage of candidates running in local elections is, besides just being enjoyable, briskly informative in a way that might save anyone from making a mistake, especially in a low profile race. Well, the primary election is upon us and, perusing my sample ballot online,…
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Sometimes, the colorless prose of a New York Times article endows utterly ludicrous events with the veneer of grave propriety routinely assigned to political news. And sometimes, as with “Trump-Backed Republican Loses to Little-Known Rival Who Had Suspended His Bid,” the content is so bizarre that the style sheet cannot obscure it. The linked article…
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My theory concerning the vilification of Anthony Fauci is that the Coronavirus killed more than a million Americans, Trump was president, his performance as it related to the outbreak was dismal, and someone else had to take the fall–Fauci, it seems. I think my theory explains some things that otherwise don’t make a lot of…
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I think most everyone has seen the cartoon–maybe more apt to call it a meme–wherein the guy in his pajamas pounds at his keyboard while shouting into the next room, “I can’t come to bed honey, I disagree with someone on the Internet!” Well, having no honey, I’m a free man, so: At this point,…
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It’s perfectly obvious that, in the Minnesota races this election season for governor and US Senate, the Republican party has declined to endorse its only two candidates who have any chance of winning. Since Michele Tafoya and Lisa DeMuth are both women, a natural question concerning the m-word, for misogyny, arises. Do Republicans hate women?…
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Will Rogers famously remarked that he did not belong to an organized political party–he was a Democrat. I thought of that yesterday after Trump endorsed clownish Pillow Guy for governor of Minnesota. The chairman of the state GOP responded by putting out the following statement: We were surprised by President Trump’s endorsement of Mike Lindell.…
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I edited a joke and texted it to my sister, a retired chemistry professor. Slow day, needed a brightener, and figured she’d deliver. Yes, it developed that the dots, blinking in real time, were an alert: rant gestating. But you can get enough of those from her brother.
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Since writing this, I by chance saw the above episode of Firing Line, in which the legal scholar Melissa Murray, though without mentioning what Tennessee’s state legislature did to the people of Memphis, says pretty much what I said about the Supreme Court’s decision in the case called Callais. There’s at least two of us!…
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According to this New York Times article, an American family of four–dad, mom, two kids under age 8–cannot keep above water with a household income of $130,000. In 2024 they had a small cushion that has now trickled away. I was a little skeptical–for example, I don’t doubt that the claim would hold in Manhattan,…
