by Dan | Jun 23, 2019 | Uncategorized
Written on June 10, 2019, as part of a project I was thinking about doing for all the significant Democratic candidates. I thought the better of that, but decided to publish this in response to a friend’s question about Biden’s electability. — dc...
by Dan | Jun 17, 2019 | Uncategorized
A frequent trollish participant on a friend’s Facebook page left this comment the other day:” Also we have yet for anyone to nail down exactly how Russia ‘interfered’ with our election. Some Russian computer geeks paid for some ads on Face...
by Dan | Feb 10, 2019 | Uncategorized
Major League Soccer celebrated its continuing rise toward adequacy in 2015 with a new, simple, clean logo. It’s not without its detractors, but as league logos go, it’s decent (seriously: Go look at the Bundesliga and Serie A logos). Would that the...
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 | Nov 1, 2017 | Black Sheep Manor, Blog, Uncategorized
Imagine a Democratic Party platform that begins with the following lines: The conscience of the people, in a time of grave national problems, has called into being a new party, born of the nation’s sense of justice. We dedicate ourselves to the fulfillment of...
by Dan | Oct 9, 2017 | Uncategorized
Hello there, gentle readers. It’s me, Mr. Not-An-Economist, with some historical context on the current state of Wall Street and “economic growth.” Following the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, the U.S. economy began a slow, painful...
