Conservative Advice To GOP: Don’t Legislate, Focus On Scandals (NPR.org) In the autumn of 2010 I decided to stop following politics so closely, in part to focus on my fiction writing, but also because I was getting sick and tired of all the Tea Party nonsense and could see the handwriting on the wall in [...]
Archive of posts filed under the politics category.
Screw the “Silly Season”
Benghazi Schools Obama In The Politics Of Scandal (npr.org) The beginning of May is the start of what’s known as the “silly season” of American politics. Most states have held their primaries, and until we get closer to the election — around September or October — there’s a sense that there won’t be much in [...]
Not This Time
Peter King calls for “increased surveillance” of Muslims after Boston (salon.com) Republicans Urge Obama To Treat Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Boston Suspect, As ‘Enemy Combatant’ (Huffington Post) Thanks to my old friend from Backwash.com, Val, I knew about the bombs that went off in Boston before television-watchers did. She retweeted some of the first tweets about the [...]
Stall-ing Transgender Progress
Arizona bill seeks to tie bathroom use to birth gender, restricting transgender rights (Vancouver Sun) A lot of talk is made of recent GLBT progress — witness the rapid growth in support for marriage equality in just the past few years here in America — but more often than not these measures of progress only [...]
Why Derpy Still Matters
I have a tendency to argue myself into a stalemate when it comes to a number of difficult issues. I’d like to think that I’m being a good person by giving thoughtful consideration to the needs and opinions of others as I try to figure things out, but there’s a lot of evidence that sometimes [...]
