ITEM: The Democrats have staged the first ever Democratic National Convention held entirely on Zoom.

Although I did not watch it, I shall nevertheless blog my opinions about it.

1. Judging from the highlights reels, it went reasonably well. So much so that some people have suggested they should do it this way from now on - or at least the roll call ( Read more... )

ITEM: Joe Biden has selected his Veep.

In my opinion, he has chosen well - not least because it’s encouraging Tucker Carlson to make an even bigger fool of himself than usual.

However, I know people who are very unhappy with Biden’s choice of Kamala Harris.

Most of the reasons I’ve heard fall into the usual categories: sour grapes, DNC conspiracy ( Read more... )

Hong Kong was scheduled to have its next LegCo election next month. It has now been postponed to next year.

The move has been condemned by Donald Trump - who as it happens wants to postpone the US election in November.

Let’s blog this, shall we?

1. The excuse for the HK election postponement is COVID-19. The loyalists either really believe this or ( Read more... )

Hong Kong had its first - and possibly last - primary election over the weekend.

To explain briefly:

HK doesn't normally have primaries in the same manner as the US. But the pan-Democratic parties (which are legion) have never held a collective majority in in the Legislative Council (LegCo) - in part because the parties keep splitting into smaller ( Read more... )

In a couple of posts, I’ve mentioned that one of the wild cards in the 2020 election is the fact that the top candidates (to include Bernie Sanders at the time) were all in the high-risk demographic for COVID-19, which tends to be more fatal for elderly patients. Trump is the youngest of the bunch at 74, and both he and Biden are the oldest ( Read more... )

Well, that’s apparently that. Barring any weird disasters (and I’m including COVID-19 and deranged assassins here), it looks like it’s going to be Joe Biden vs D. Trump in November.

So a few thoughts on that.

1. There’s a lot of ink being written on where it went wrong for Sanders - some of it sensible, some of it otherwise. For me, the most ( Read more... )

I didn’t watch the debate, no. As I’ve probably mentioned before, my state primary is over, so it’s no longer up to me which one gets the nomination, and I will be voting for the nominee regardless of who it turns out to be. (And this was true even when Marianne Williamson was still running.)

Still, I do have thoughts about the Biden vs Bernie ( Read more... )

Well that was interesting.

And now, the usual armchair color commentary on what we call the Super Tuesday:

1. I can’t claim I saw a Biden comeback coming, but I’m not terribly surprised by it. The general opinion of the experts was that the real litmus test for Biden was South Carolina, which - unlike Iowa and NH - has a majority black population, a ( Read more... )

Previously on Senseless Acts of Bloggery:

[The protests are] expected to go on all summer long. […]

Update: they did. And they haven’t stopped. And they’ve gotten progressively worse.

Wikipedia can help you fill in the gaps, but suffice to say it’s gotten worse. Two unarmed protesters have been shot (neither fatally, but in both cases that was sheer ( Read more... )

Or, "I wasn’t going to post anything about the election until I saw a Marianne Williamson debate clip set to the Twin Peaks soundtrack”.

I know nobody wants political content on this account but it's 2:30am and I am awake and putting Marianne Williamson's speech to Twin Peaks music pic.twitter.com/fSjP5wzrnR
- I will meet you on that field. (@ ( Read more... )