Our first group of post-debate polls show Trump only a couple points ahead of Biden in the one-on-one matchup. Not a collapse for Biden's support, not even his worst position so far ( Read more... )

Sometimes I think ideally I wouldn't belong to a political party or register with a political party. Partisanship irks me. Yet it seems natural in democracies for people to aggregate within political parties that compete for control of the government. The US Constitution was drafted without considering partisanship but our politics were quickly ( Read more... )

No, that's likely to get you stoned by both mobs.

thought I'd be quiet, but then K texted me, so I texted back grumpily, and then texted other peeps less so,

and now I'm in zero mood to go to bed LOL

I'd rather listen to music and keep playing with toys, but y'all have gone to bed on the East Coast,

I could still poke K and MAB, on the West Coast, but, maybe I want to calm down

why the fuck do ( Read more... )

“This week, I want to express, first and foremost, my unwavering and absolute solidarity with Palestinians in their resistance against oppression toward liberation and self-determination,” law student Ryna Workman wrote in a message that was widely shared on Twitter ( Read more... )

The realm of criminal indictments is different from the realm of politics. It's a battle between the prosecutors and the defense in front of a jury, with the possibility that appellate judges will toss out the verdict if the trial is defective ( Read more... )

I have already spoken with you about the dangers of political parties, particularly those based on geography. Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you against the baneful effects of partisanship generally ( Read more... )

As my relationship to vegetarianism continues to struggle and evolve, so does my relationship to political partisanship ( Read more... )