How do you know anything?
Lots of crowing and the eventual deletion of a comment calling for journalists to be "curb stomped" for their inadequacies. And if we set the...
Politics
2024
Kill Your Inner Sorkin
This evening I went through and unsubscribed, un-boomarked, or otherwise dropped out of a bunch of political fora, subs, newsletters, etc. I felt the usual...
Podcasts circling about the ideological accretion disk
Al and I listened to a pair of podcasts while we were on the road over the weekend. As usual, I'm going to skip what...
Long-term commitments
I listened to a recent installment of Citations Needed about "the rise of the war on drugs 2.0" that was usefully recalibrating. Citations Needed is...
Look to your left. Now look to your ri ... No. Sorry. Keep looking left.
I've been a longtime reader of The Nation. I don't remember when I first subscribed, but I can remember it on the magazine pile as...
MultCo commission primary: Something to think about
With the primary next month, May is a consequential month for Multnomah County. I had dinner with friends over the weekend and was surprised at...