Trump Unbound
If Trump is Returned to Power, He Will Believe He is Unstoppable [Return to Not Going Back] [Return to Second Term] Suppose someone wanted to become a dictator. In the United States, such a person ....
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Confused Grievances of Trump Voters
Those Uppity Black Journalists Someone complained that every time she thought of voting for Harris, the Democrats do something that bothers her so much it sends her back to Trump. That particular time it was ....
Four Slow News Years
[Image: A Scholar in his Study (detail), by Thomas Wyck.] Since I started Slow News in January 2020, we've had a pandemic, an attempted coup by the president against the government, a giant war in ....
Terrain Maps Lack Depth
Capitol Hill. The Seven Hills of Rome. The streets of San Francisco. The Great Plains and the Rocky Mountains. Variation in elevation is a major feature of the Earth’s surface, and so I often look ....
Trump’s Next Coup Has Already Begun
The Jan/Feb edition of The Atlantic has a good summary by Barton Gellman of how democracy in the United States is in mortal danger. Since the article is rather long, I summarize it here. [If ....
American Immigrants to America
Book Review: The Warmth of Other Suns, The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration, by Isobel Wilkerson, 2010 http://warmth.isabelwilkerson.com/ When I was reading the description of a black sharecropping family stealthily preparing to leave their ....
State Covid Rates Decrease with Vaccination – Or Do They?
The CDC reports that, based on a survey of health data from regions comprising about 30% of the total US population, in August vaccinated people had six time’s smaller chance of testing positive for Covid ....
Election Fraud: Case Study
Here is an example of a Trump accusation of fraud in the 2020 election. I chose it merely because it was the first of several cases mentioned by someone I was debating on Facebook. Facebook ....
Letters to a Trump Voter – II His Contempt For Truth
3 October 2020 PDF version of letter: lettersLies1Download Dear Dad, Since you always taught me that it was important to be honest, I continue to be surprised by how little Donald Trump’s contempt for truth ....
Autumnal Equinox Song
Sun setting, moon rising, while watch we all the spreading nights Circling another year as time’s unwilling satellites Summer facing, winter chasing, squinting with our clouded sight We seem to pause as if we’ve reached ....