Biden Is the Politician America Needs Right Now

From Franklin Foer at The Atlantic:

But in Philadelphia yesterday, Biden delivered perhaps the most thorough-going and hard-hitting critique of American racial inequities ever uttered by a major presidential nominee. Certainly, no nominee has ever proposed such a robust agenda for curbing the abusiveness of police, and with such little rhetorical hedging.

What makes Biden unique (and maddening if you are far left or far right) is he lack of hyper-partisan politics and desire to make a “deal”. More often than not, that means he’s open to working with both parties and all people to push the country in the right direction. It’s likely you’ll disagree with some of his positions, but you’ll feel heard and understood. Biden will attempt to represent and govern all Americans, not just one party or race or interest group.

When a Pandemic Meets a Personality Cult

From Paul Krugman:

So, here’s the response of the Trump team and its allies to the coronavirus, at least so far: It’s actually good for America. Also, it’s a hoax perpetrated by the news media and the Democrats. Besides, it’s no big deal, and people should buy stocks. Anyway, we’ll get it all under control under the leadership of a man who doesn’t believe in science.

We’ve been lucky to not have had any signifigant crises since Trump has taken office but this will be the first test … and boy, do I lack confidence in this administration. The 80% cut in CDC money a few years back in particular looks especially egregious right about now.

Trumped

What just happened? We just elected a man who ran a campaign based on fear, hate, racism and misogyny. Devoid of any content other than a few catch phrases and intellectually too lazy to learn more about the issues, Donald Trump is going to be our president in 2 short months. I’m terrified, and at […]

Continue reading →

Volunteer

February 6th, 2008 If you’re like me, you are 28, live in Atlanta, and you’re a Barack Obama sup­porter. But you’re look­ing for ways to get involved in his cam­paign now that he’s won Geor­gia. There are a couple of ways to quickly make a dif­fer­ence in his cam­paign, and the two com­bined take very […]

Continue reading →

Super

February 4th, 2008 …Tuesday I’d like to take this opportunity to encourage everyone to vote tomorrow, even if it’s not for Barack Obama. Tuesday, a huge percentage of our country gets a chance to make their voices heard, and shape each party’s nominations this summer. I’m not a big McCain guy (due mainly to his […]

Continue reading →

Alas

April 30th, 2007 Too bad. On a related note, if Bush vetoes the Iraq spending bill Tuesday that includes a withdrawal timetable, it will be interesting, given exactly 4 years ago on Tuesday Bush declared our mission was accomplished, and major combat operations were over. What a long, sweet, successful ride it’s been. Welcome! If […]

Continue reading →

Clever

February 20th, 2007 I saw the above ad at AdverBox, because I’m a dork and I read websites about ads and marketing. Anywho, I found this particular ad to be fairly witty. Our political leaders always talk about breaking dependence on foreign oil, and it’s fairly obvious it won’t happen any time soon. What is […]

Continue reading →

An Inconvenient Truth

I went to see An Inconvenient Truth on Friday night over at the Tara, and I was very impressed with it in a lot of ways. I wasn’t sure what to expect, as sometimes (most of the time actually) these films are preachy, political, and skew facts to meet their own twisted goals. On first […]

Continue reading →