So, time to talk about Twitter: It's time to delete your account. Before I proceed, I have a confession to make... I once upon a time wrote one tweet. It was in November 2016. I tweeted at my old HS friend Jared (who doesn't

So when I came back from Vegas last month, I brought with me two old defunct laptops that had been sitting for several years under a mountain of desk paperwork (the machines are pictured above). The one in the vertical dock (on the left)

Centrist Republicans predictably went nuts when Biden blurted out that he wants to sign both bills at once (Hard Infrastructure and Human Infrastructure). As soon as they started whining a few days ago, my first thought was, "Oh, OK. Biden will apologize, say he

A Predictive Thought Experiment First, let's set the scene: According to FiveThirtyEight, the most likely scenario for this election is a decisive Biden win and a shift of net 4 Senate seats in the blue direction. This gives Democrats full control of Executive and

I've been correcting people right and left for posting about 'testing positive for covid'. 1) You don't test for the disease (Covid-19). You test for this particular coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2). We pretty much all know the difference between a virus and the disease it causes,

It amazes me how few people there are who really seem to get the point of this exercise. The WHY of all this effort. We're doing it to achieve three objectives, each one building off the prior: 1) Strict social distancing, to push down

As everyone knows by now, the Trump administration lost the popular vote in November 2016 by a tally of 65.9 million to 63.0 million (right around 2.9 million more Americans wanted Hillary Clinton to be our President). This original sin of

So one of my friends on FB finally found a GOP loyalist in the medical industry to speak out against social distancing: This guy's discussion, start to finish, soup to nuts, is pure fiction: I got halfway through before I caught myself yelling at

Step 1: Pulverize the GOP in November. Don't just win. Humiliate the f*ckers. Sweep the House and Senate. And down-ballot, clear the right wing extremists out the statehouses which are passing stupid abortion bans. Step 2: Roll back every insane executive policy enacted

One surprise from super Tuesday: California. (As I write this, the votes aren't all counted yet, but with 62% in the books, the picture is starting to get more clear). How does Bernie only net 50ish more delegates over Biden from California? The way

In the late 1930's, the Democratic Spanish government was overthrown in civil war by the autocratic dictator Franco. At the time, in protest, the famous cellist Pablo Casals declared he would not play in his home country, until a Democratic government was restored. This

So rumor has it that there are more than 4 Republican senators who will vote for documents and witnesses at the impeachment trial. Why does this matter? We're never going to get 19 Republican senators to vote to impeach, right? The end result will

One single thought, which they dare not utter out-loud, but permeates every neuron in their FOX-addled brains, explains almost everything: "We are the real Americans, and liberals aren't." Every time you hear a Republican making a defense of what can't possibly be defended, put

Should FB run political adds without fact-checking? In a vacuum, the simple answer is: No, obviously, if they wanted to, they have the manpower and resources to put the kibosh on this kinda crap. So why is FB resisting? We know politically motivated FB

Things that should be obvious by now, but for some reason aren't: -The free press is good. -CO2 from cars is bad. -Immigration is the cradle of our culture. -Discrimination is bad. -Science is good. -Refugees deserve refuge. -Nazis are bad. -The FBI is

Justice Kennedy's retirement is clearly bad news - it's a move in the wrong direction for women's reproductive rights. Those of us on the right side of history are clearly and justifiably horrified by the prospect of a slide back to a pre-1973 abortion

So my recent optimism suddenly seems... overly optimistic. I find myself tonight looking at property values in Vancouver, and Toronto. I'm thinking to myself that I might need an escape plan. It's really starting to sink in that I'm at complete and irreconcilable odds