by Dan | Apr 24, 2018 | Black Sheep Manor, Blog, Random Xarking
Today’s long but thought-provoking read is Dylan Matthews’ “The myth of an ending: why even removing Trump from office won’t save American democracy/It feels like this moment in history deserves a definitive ending. It won’t get one,” at Vox....
by Dan | Jan 25, 2018 | Blog, Random Xarking
While searching today for the answer to a relatively simple question (“After three-fifths of the Senate votes for cloture, can the bill itself pass on a simple majority of those present during the vote?”) I was reminded of what should be the most obvious...
by Dan | Jan 20, 2018 | Blog, Random Xarking, Uncategorized
I participated in a thread this morning that reminded me how little I actually knew about how we got to this shutdown impasse, which is generally being described in the press as being about an Obama-era policy called DACA. Fox News is tending to frame the impasse in...
by Dan | Jan 1, 2018 | Blog, Random Xarking
In 1620, an indentured servant named John Howland climbed the rigging aboard a ship called the Mayflower in the middle of a storm and was violently thrown overboard. As the 28-year-old plunged toward certain death, his hand touched a rope that had come loose from the...
by Dan | Dec 17, 2017 | Blog, Random Xarking
If President Trump fires Special Counsel Robert Mueller — which I believe he has already decided to do once there’s no other way of avoiding pending criminal charges — then 2018 is shaping up to be a year of national crisis like no living American...
by Dan | Nov 28, 2017 | Blog, Featured, Random Xarking
The one quote by Mao Zedong that every American seems to know is this one, from 1938: “Political power grows from the barrel of a gun.” A couple instances over the past week reminded me of this line. The more recent one was something Jeff Daniel’s...
