A few years ago I was inspired by a visit to an online anti-abortion forum to pen a troll to try to get anti-abortion activists to think more seriously about the woman part of the abortion equation. To that end, I pretended to take an ultra-hard, secular anti-abortion position so that they would have nothing … Read more

Arizona state lawmakers are looking at requiring government premises to allow citizens to carry weapons on the premises unless they provide storage facilities in which to secure arms within 200 feet of the entrance. Once again, reasonable gun policy is falling victim to knee jerk extremist positions on both sides that have less to do … Read more

UPDATE: Gab and Steny Hoyer will be at the Lodge on the Desert, 306   N.Alvernon Way on Tuesday, May 29, 12:30 – 1:30. I encourage all who can to show up and let them know how you feel about their votes on Iraq and their failure to stop the war in Iraq. Link: Howard … Read more

Link: Al Gore slams ‘trivialities and nonsense’ in news media. Many have opined that Al Gore is absolutely not running for President because no Presidential candidate in his right mind would write a book like "The Assault on Reason". I can’t really speak to that in detail yet, because I haven’t finished the book, but … Read more

There is likely to be a lot of backslapping among Democrats who think that allowing the occupation of Iraq to continue without any conditions or accountability is smart politics, even though it is disastrously bad policy: at least Bush owns the policy, not us, is the thinking. It is true that now that the Democratic … Read more

I haven’t felt much like posting of late. Every time I think I might want to write about the many currents of national or local politics, I start to circle the drain thinking about just how low the state of our republic has been brought. We are stuck in orbit about a giant black hole … Read more