This article was originally posted on Ricochet.com and reposted here.

This is going to be a long post. My goal is to take the entirety of Kansas City Chief’s kicker Harrison Butker’s commencement speech and review it.

Ladies and gentlemen of the class of 2024, I would like to start off by congratulating all of you for successfully making it to this ( Read more... )

First this one from Medium.  TL;DR, Clinton was immensely flawed as a candiate and had Sanders been the nominee he would have beaten Trump.  I think this is spot on for the reasons the author gives.  The treatment of Sanders by the Democratic party drove people away from Clinton and made it harder for them to eventually support her ( Read more... )

"Imagine if Trump supporters had shut down major metro areas after a "historic" Hillary win? Media would destroy them ( Read more... )

So, working the election went very smoothly yesterday.
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Today I'll work as a Judge for the election. It's kind of neat to be a Judge even if it's only for an election. I wonder if I should call myself Judge David...naw.

At any rate, I'm hoping for a huge turnout today to justify me using vacation to do this. I've been disappointed the last few elections in the turnout. Everyone wants to go early and ( Read more... )

There is the desire when things are bed to stand athwart the disaster and yell stop.  I'm past that point and figure that the time is now to throw kerosene on the flickering flames and watch it all burn.  Will that be bad for a lot of people, including me?  Yes, but as I told a friend this weekend, there cannot be unity in the US anymore.  If there ( Read more... )

This morning I was listening to the radio and the program played the famous last speech by President Eisenhower, traditionally known as the "Beware of the Military-Industrial Complex" speech.  It is often used to warn people of the potential evil of the armaments industry that, post WWII, became a permanent fixture in our country.  President ( Read more... )

Recently Hugo award winning author John Scalzi wrote a blog piece about how to explain "white priviledge" without using the word priviledge.  His basic point is that if life were a video game that being a Straight While Male would be like playing on the Easy difficulty.  I disagree with him on a number of levels most notably the level of ( Read more... )

This past weekend moonsinger and I got to go to WorldCon (aka LonestarCon 3) in San Antonio.  We had last attended WordlCon in 1997 when it was last in San Antonio.  Due to expense and having our special needs seven year old with us, we decided to only do one day and not purchase a full membership.  I was extremely worried about how Alastair would deal with ( Read more... )

There are two exremely interesting aspects of the debate over what action the US and the rest of the world should take in regards to Syria's use of NBC weapons against their own citizens.  The first is that, as we saw from 1999 to 2003 the politics of intervention for most politicians is purely a matter of who is in power at the time.  In 1999, ( Read more... )