Jul 292024: At-Risk Senate Seats Lean to The RightThe odds of the Democratic party holding onto the Senate in 2024 are frighteningly high against that outcome. A new CNN story lists ten senate seats that may be up for grabs next year. Eight of them belong to Democrats; only two belong to Republicans. It’s going to be a long election night because we won’t know who owns America until all of these races are decided. Click this link to read the rest of the story on BindleSnitch.comPolitics1 min readPolitics1 min read
Feb 6Member-onlyHow China’s Trial Balloon Sets the Stage for Asymmetrical Warfare with UShttps://bindlesnitch.com/chinas-trial-balloon-tests-us-air-defenses/International Politics1 min readInternational Politics1 min read
Feb 3Click the link to read the articleClick the link to read the article A conversation with Keanu Reeves on Character.AI1 min read1 min read
Nov 15, 2022DELUSIONS AND EIDOLONSThey laid claims to their versions of reality, while ignoring our claims to the same; They belittled what they didn’t understand: we belittled what they thought they knew…. Read the whole poem here: https://bindlesnitch.com/poem-delusions-and-eidolons/1 min read1 min read
Oct 5, 2022The Coming Constitutional CrisisThere’s a constitutional crisis brewing between a duly-elected president of the United States and a politicized, lopsided Supreme Court. Here’s how it might play out. We are already in the weeds. The question is how deep into the weed are we going to go After this Supreme Court kills affirmative…American Politics5 min readAmerican Politics5 min read
Jun 4, 2022Member-onlyBANG BANGYou’re going on about your business doing ordinary things on an ordinary day when, all of a sudden, bang, bang, your existence is shattered by gunfire. Bang, bang is the sound of rage being unleashed among us; Bang, bang is the sound of sorrow being imposed upon us. The world…Mass Shootings2 min readMass Shootings2 min read
May 24, 2022Member-onlyRACISM AND ABORTION ARE TIED TOGETHER(So, here I am coming back here again. I figure that it just makes sense to be ignored in as many venues as possible.) I watched The United States vs. Billie Holliday last night. Terrific film. Andra Day should have won an Oscar for her performance as Billie. But it was literally a terrific film because of the horrifying story it tells about an America so deeply steeped in race hatred that the stain remains uncleansed sixty-three years after the FBI hounded her to death.Racism3 min readRacism3 min read
Apr 6, 2022Member-onlyDipping My Toe Back in AgainI have given up on Medium several times. Too much information, not enough differentiation, but that’s true about the entire information environment in which we now find ourselves. Friends of mine who have fled from Facebook are coming back again because, in the information age, Facebook provides an immediate fix…2 min read2 min read
May 20, 2021Member-onlyMy Last Words on Space Invaders“In a recent 60 Minutes interview, Lue Elizondo claimed the aircraft were undetectable on radar and could pull “6-to-700 g-forces” and “fly at 13,000 miles an hour.” And on Wednesday he claimed more than just reports exist.” The Fox News report from that paragon of reporting Tucker Carlson (cited above)…4 min read4 min read
Mar 16, 2021Member-onlyMistakes We Made in the Vaccine Roll-Out(I haven’t been here in a long time. I don’t tend to read Medium articles and I don’t really know why I haven’t canceled my membership. …5 min read5 min read