I couldn't keep her (my mother's) journals past her passing, she would never have wanted anybody to read these private words, she was a private person ( Read more... )

It’s a fascinating thought-after decades of blogging, writing, and exploring yourself so openly, what secrets remain tucked away? But secrets aren’t just about what you’ve chosen to keep hidden; they’re also about the corners of yourself you’ve yet to fully explore, the layers of thought or feeling that have yet to crystallize into something ( Read more... )

If within my Green Party, a woman wants to run for the office, I wouldn't oppose her. If I were contemplating running as a Green for an office, but another party was likely to nominate a woman, I wouldn't oppose her. So, for example, I wouldn't be running for Senate this year as a Green in Maryland, because the Democrats nominated a woman ( Read more... )

The last time long-term interest rates fell this quickly month-over-month was March 2020 ( Read more... )

Biden quit the 2024 race only 9 days ago, but it already feels like a different planet to many Democrats, whereas Republicans are trying to quickly define Harris as "dangerously liberal" based on many of her past statements. She is from San Francisco, although that city is no longer as liberal as its image suggests ( Read more... )

I'm willing to be convinced to support Kamala Harris. I voted for Obama in 2008, because I felt he was a higher quality candidate than the Green Party's that year ( Read more... )

In both 1952 and 1968, unpopular Democratic Presidents decided not to run for second terms. Both times, the Democratic National Conventions had to select the party's replacement candidates -- in 1952 the delegates ultimately chose Truman's hand-picked successor, in 1968 the delegates chose LBJ's VP on the first vote. Both times, these replacement ( Read more... )

This morning NPR played a clip of President Biden saying something but I couldn't understand what he was saying. Is his voice beyond help or would he benefit from a voice coach ( Read more... )

While at lunch with B on Saturday I openly wondered which next news story would kick "Biden is Old" off the headlines, because I'd decided Biden was not going to resign and his delegates were not going to abandon him. B argued in response that the "Biden is Old" story could never truly go away, because Biden will still be old, the story would ( Read more... )

Captain Edward John Smith, the most senior of the White Star Line's captains, was transferred from the Olympic (previously the largest vessel in the world) to take command of the Titanic (newly the largest vessel in the world) on her maiden voyage across the Atlantic ( Read more... )