CT Blue

This post at Hullabaloo is well worth reading. It relates the impressions of the Capitol Hill insurrection of historian Terry Bouton, who has attended multiple Washington demonstrations as an observer. His observations about the demographic makeup of the crowd are enlightening, but most interesting are his observations about the security: There is no doubt the […]

I don’t think there is any doubt but that the Republicans are planning to steal the 2020 election. If they succeed, my guess it will be done so that it is plain sight, but nonetheless deniable enough to pass muster in the present partisan Supreme Court. It will be the end of our constitutional system […]

I’m currently reading a book Alaric the Goth, An Outsider’s History of the Fall of Rome, by Douglas Boin, a history professor at Saint Louis University. It’s a history of the sack of Rome from the Goth’s point of view, and is, of necessity, somewhat speculative in the details, though what I’m about to pass […]

The ACLU has called for the Dismantling of the Department of Homeland Security. Some people sort of thought from the beginning that if you give something an Orwellian name it would probably start doing Orwellian things. Of course the people saying that were the people to whom the Very Serious People never listen.