Fireplaces burning in the summer when it’s over 90 degrees! Again!
On July 30, 2022, when it was in the mid 90s in Bellevue, The Lodge at Bellevue Square was running the gas fireplace at 523 Bellevue Way NE. . They do it, I presume,...
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Summary of The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the C.I.A., and the rise of America’s secret government
David Talbot’s book The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government is a biography that reads like a spy novel. It is painful to read because of all...
Can non-violent protest and civil disobedience achieve justice in this era?
The antifa and BLM protests over the last several years were overwhelmingly peaceful. Nonetheless, right-wing media were able to convince tens of millions of Americans that antifa and BLM are violent, radical movements. Right...
Warning to Dems from antiwar conservatives: Dems’ militarism “is going to bite them pretty hard very soon”
The transpartisan* Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft held a zoom meeting today with antiwar conservatives: The New Right: Ukraine Marks Major Foreign Policy Shift Among Conservatives. *The Quincy Institute is funded by both the...
Visualizing and analyzing the 2022 election
Using data from Harvard and MIT Election Data and Science Lab, “County Presidential Election Returns 2000-2020”, https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/VOQCHQ, Harvard Dataverse, V10; County Presidential Returns U.S. Dept. of Commerce: Bureau of Economic Analysis U.S. Dept. of...
Can a moderate left coalition stop Republican extremism?
In an essay Are We Doomed? from The Atlantic in January of 2022, George Packer warned of the dangers to our democracy from Republican extremism, in particular with regards to elections. His prescription for...
Report and photos of May 21 Town Hall with Rep. Adam Smith in SeaTac
On April 21, 2022 Rep. Adam Smith held his first in-person town hall meeting in two years. The location was an elementary school in SeaTac, WA, a working class and multi-ethnic suburb to the...
Facebook jail for St. Alban’s Episcopal Church
St. Alban’s Episcopal Church is a progressive church that has a facebook page that I subscribe to. They often share inspiring, progressive memes about social, religious, and political issues. Recently they shared the following...
Putin is a neocon’s dream come true
I suspect that many antiwar activists are upset not just about the outbreak of war in Ukraine but also by the fact that Putin’s stupid and evil invasion makes U.S. aggressive policies seem reasonable....
Summary of interview with Peter Kuznick about Ukraine
Mickey Huff, the third director of Project Censored, interviews American University historian Peter Kuznick, co-author with Oliver Stone of The Untold History of the United States. They discuss the current U.S. and NATO confrontation with Russia over...