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.
My November 2019 ballot
In a couple of weeks I will continue to uphold my streak of never missing an election in 36 years. Here’s what’s on the ballot in Cleveland Ward 3. Municipal judge: Joseph Russo vs. Marilyn B. Cassidy Russo litters public rights of way with yard signs (boo!) and is also unrecommended by the local Black […]
Criticizing media criticism
I was listening to some old episodes of the “On The Media” podcast today. Here’s one that got my attention: “Impossible!” The first segment is funny. Jonathan Greenberg is incredulously telling the story of how Trump got onto the Forbes list of richest people (in the 1980s) by talking fast and bullshitting him, and in […]
Money is fake; federal taxes don’t matter.
I’m sharing this here because Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) came up in a Facebook discussion and I didn’t want to derail it. Here’s fun aspect of paying for federal government If you agree with MMT, that’s not a direct concern. The government can’t run out of money, because it defines what money is. It’s the […]