BLM Demands
It’s time to stop blaming Republicans for things that are entirely in the control of “liberal” and “progressive” Democratic politicians.
Speaking of buttholes
Here’s the thing about being a really poor North American city. You have two options really. https://www.wkyc.com/article/news/local/cleveland/mayor-frank-jackson-says-cleveland-is-perceived-as-butthole-of-the-world/95-0a1ac81d-d59f-4405-9bfb-ce0be0cbb1da The first one, we’ve tried for at least 41 years now. (I’m starting with late 1978 because Default Night was such a landmark.) It doesn’t fucking work. We should stop doing it. The second one, even though it […]
Leadership in a pandemic
How would leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic be different if we had a President who was actually interested in doing the job? Since it’s not a reality show? A thoughtful President would pull their best people together for about three days and get an eight-page report (or something like that) on the most urgent problems […]
Why Democrats keep losing
It’s not like we didn’t know this already, but it’s galling that currently sitting US Senators of the Democratic Party *like* the filibuster rule because it stops progressive legislation.
Recycling: is anybody doing this?
It’s bizarre that China stops taking plastic and cities are just going “oh well” and that’s the end of it.
What Science Is
I don’t know Katie Everson, but she put this out on Facebook recently and it’s great. I’m a bit of a fanboy of academics and researchers, so I’ve read a few scientific papers of this type. They mostly go kind of like this: Hi, this is who I am and here are my co-authors. Here […]
Half Ass is better than No Ass
I am extra pissed off today. The thing I really resent is that the rest of the world is moving forward, while in Cleveland we are reduced to begging Council members to beg the Mayor to do even the tiniest things in regard to essential objectives like sustainability, environmental health, and traffic safety. Take this […]
My platform as Mayor of Cleveland
Let’s half-ass everything! It’s better than no ass!
Plain Dealer slowly folds; alternatives needed.
People need to know what’s going on around them, and there needs to be a way to make that available in a sustainable way, and hardcopy metro daily papers isn’t it.
Social media sucks. Read blogs.
Get off social media. Get on blogs of people you know and like.