A FaceBook friend (are we really friends?) recently posted this meme. He is a conservative, I’d dare even say he is a rabid Trump supporter. That is a claim he would deny (I do not see any evidence of that…
Defending the Shutdown
Someone on Facebook just made this argument: My response was truncated because who wants to read a lengthy political discussion, especially on Facebook? Here is the non-truncated version of my response to the post: 1. Why not? Why aren’t lives…
Celebrating Diversity in the Mid-Term Elections
So, you’re celebrating a person’s victory based on race, sex, orientation and religion? That’s why people don’t like it. Intersectionality is the crap that people hate. Reducing someone to there immutable characteristics is absolutely immoral Those words are from…
My Politics Series
One of the goals for this blog is to help me present my views to the world. This is important because it holds my views accountable.It forces me to refine and clarify until I am satisfied that the thought is…
Midterm Election Day! Egads!
It is another one of those days. I have been watching some of the political ads lately, admittedly the important ones are not running here, not that I am listening to local broadcasts of…anything. As always, they annoy me because…
Paul Ryan for VP
The following was originally published on August 16, 2012: I have been scouring the interwebs looking for a reason why Paul Ryan is taken seriously, and not by Republican ideologues, it is obvious why they like this guy. But…
Beeman 2003
Below is a lengthy passage (the underlining is mine) about the relationship between the US and Iran. I’ll paraphrase to save your eyes the workout. Iran and the US have narratives about themselves and the other, and everything is interpreted through that…
Rand Paul
I was going to write about this, but here is a take on it. A superior take on it as it encompasses what I was thinking but then adds on and renders it much more clearly than I would have.…
Health Care
Haiti and humanitarianism
I will begin this dialogue with a quotation from Caldwell in 2004: The complexity of the relationship between bio-sovereignty and humanity is most evident in the issue of humanitarian interventions. If such interventions limit nation-state sovereignty, they serve as a…