(Political Ramblings from a Little Left of Center)
Democrats unquestionably had a great day on Tuesday, winning elections across the country. Separately, Wednesday’s Supreme Court arguments in the case regarding the legality of Trump’s tariffs indicated that many of the justices are at least a wee bit reluctant to approve Trump’s quite obviously unconstitutional power grab. Yay? Sorry, but a little black cloud…
I first posted to this rendition of my political blog seven years ago today. I’ve been absent for a while, largely tending to wounds inflicted by the last election. Unfortunately, those wounds are still unhealed. As I feared, this administration – aided by cowardly Congressional Republicans and disorganized Congressional Democrats – has proven to be…
I seriously doubt that this post will mark my return to regular blogging. However, I’ve been thinking about this particular topic quite a lot lately. I needed to write things down to organize those thoughts and decided I might as well share. I’ve been at a complete loss trying to determine what Democrats (and other…
While I began sharing my thoughts online way back in 2003, today marks the six-year anniversary of my first post to the ParentheticalPolitics iteration of my blog. Although there have been periods of sparse activity (and there will undoubtedly be more), the blog has seen a ponderous plethora of published political posts. A copious cornucopia…
A good friend recently sent me this remarkably appropriate cartoon: Wanting to include proper attribution, I did a little research. Turns out that this is the work of David Sipress and it’s not at all new. In fact, the cartoon dates back to the Clinton administration and even Sipress doesn’t remember where it was originally…
“And remember, Florida’s easier than other places. You have the ocean and you have the sun. There’s something about that that works. But — you have the sun, too, but you don’t have the ocean. I can tell. You definitely don’t have the ocean. Maybe someday you’ll have the ocean, you never know.” – The…
A friend just texted me about a Florida woman who was arrested on Tuesday for throwing wine at Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL). This is now the second time that Gaetz has been the public target of projectile liquids. While I admittedly find both incidents quite humorous, I’m frankly torn with respect to the appropriateness of…
I just read a recent opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal written by one Gary Geipel. Seems Gary was all bent out of shape about the registration process for the Sundance Film Festival currently underway in Utah. He was so irritated that he wrote an associated rant entitled “The Sundance Film Festival Loyalty Oath”…
While I will continue to post on this blog, I will be pausing my use of Twitter to reference future blog posts. I have multiple reasons: I have serious concerns about the direction of the platform under Elon. It’s a bit of a pain. There’s just not that many people that follow my minimalist Twitter…
I want to plug an eight-episode podcast that just concluded this week, available on your platform of choice. “Ultra” is an absolutely fascinating, exceptionally well-researched, deep dive into an all-but-forgotten and, unfortunately, all-too-true chapter in American history. There’s that oft-repeated aphorism whose original form was likely “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to…