Season 1
11: Time To Twexit
On Nov 1st, I created an account on Mastodon.ie. I’d been triggered by a news story. What was that story? Two days before, Elon M…
10: Cruelty Is Not Cool
Thoughts on Governor Ron De Santis of Florida, how he shipped migrants to Martha's Vineyard, and the long-troubled, painful relat…
9: The Problem With Primaries
Primary elections frequently result in highly partisan general election candidates. I think Alaska has figured out a better way t…
8: Ranked Choice Voting
How can somebody with only 26% of the vote win an election? That happened this week in the New York Democratic Primary for the 10…
7: The Republican Coalition - Financiers and Foot Soldiers
All American political parties are made up of coalitions, or voting blocks, that are cobbled together to support either the Repub…
6: The Senate Filibuster - Jul 5, 2022
Why the Senate Filibuster needs to be eliminated. Why it's invoked more frequently by the Republican Party - the party of Non Gov…
5: A Brief History of the Republican Party
How did the Republican Party become what it is today? Here's a quick sketch of its long, strange and troubling journey
4: Dead Cattle, Stranded Assets and Guts
Lets talk about the real crisis faced by American and Western Democracy
1: America and Guns - 25 May 2022
Some thoughts on yesterday's violence in Uvalde and Texas and why America struggles in regulating the distribution of guns
