Category: 3 Cents

For reference: the hopefully final (for now) word on the Ten Commandments in Louisiana classrooms These religious pushes – still the Bible thing left in Oklahoma – are notable for being conservative policy actions aimed *not* at minorities, but at minor faiths. Muslims. Jews. Hindu. And this is not...

We should establish at the outset that I’m already operating at a deficit. I made the same Pollyanna assumption that a sufficient number of voters – evidenced by 2020’s turnout for a coot – were motivated by the reasoned want to overcome fascism. I was wrong. One bright side...

I foolishly thought Trump would exit the White House and step directly into federal custody. I still don’t know why that never happened. I foolishly thought his convictions would disqualify him from candidacy. I still don’t understand why there have been so few. I foolishly thought principle would overcome...

My nickel is on a Harris win, very possibly with room to spare. But to preface today’s remarks with some context: This could be the closest presidential election since 1876 A lot of state poll results show ties. So are they tied because of voters — or pollsters? There...

It just is. There was an article in The Guardian about movie theater pricing that triggered some PTSD flashbacks. The sensationalism of the theater economy slowly collapsing is fun to watch and makes for a better show, but it’s always worth shining a light on how theater companies can...

The abbreviated campaign season afforded to Kamala Harris due to the late exit of Joe Biden – and of course the exit of the frontrunner after all but securing the nomination – creates two immediate needs for the Harris campaign. The first they have already attended to, in securing...

There is every possibility that Joe Biden would have been able to beat Donald Trump. His miserable performance in the debate made that outcome less definite to be sure, but it did not erase the possibility entirely. Prior to the debate, my certain prediction was that Trump would lose....

Watching The Daily Show and Last Week Tonight, there’s a visceral thrill in seeing the moral centers of the Left going into a very me-like rage mode at the state of the world. The sense that the universe is catching up, that reality is catching on, that words can...

You never know who you’re talking to on the internet. That profile picture, that bio, AI isn’t even the boogeyman here- a simple copy-paste may have created a cypher and left you to personify it. And even if that person is real, and is who they claim to be,...

On my chosen subject of politics, Twitter is replete with the most intellectual idiots you can imagine. There are whole crowds of “moderate” Republicans walking (tweeting?) around just shocked- SHOCKED, I say – that there is depravity in their institution. “We never saw it coming!” “Trump corrupted the GOP!”...