Let's Talk About Environmental Racism
The uproar over Bernie Sanders’ maladroit use of the word “ghetto” in the Democratic Debate in Flint, Mich., naturally demands the rebuttal that not all African-Americans live in poverty and racial...
View ArticleA Public Service for Cook County, Ill., Voters: voteforjudges.org
This is going to be brief (cue sighs of relief).If you live in Illinois, you walk into the voting booth and are confronted by a raft of names you’ve never seen before: the judicial candidates. Many of...
View ArticleAim High
If you want to hit a target, you have to aim above it.Life is not a frictionless surface. Lift is negated by weight, thrust by drag. No matter how great your momentum or how precise your aim, there...
View ArticleSo Here's What Happened in Chicago
Apologies for the roughness of the map. I don’t have proper cartographic software. Dark blue represents a Hillary Clinton majority; light blue represents a Bernie Sanders majority.The big news here is...
View ArticleWhat It Will Take to Earn My Vote
If I’m going to be asked to support a presidential candidate other than the one I’ve been supporting, these are the things I still need to see concrete evidence of:1. Vocal and actual opposition to any...
View ArticleFeds Allege Race, Sex Discrimination at Top Photography Supplier
Since I got back into the world of photography two years ago, I’ve been buying all my gear and supplies from B&H Photo Video and recommending to others that they do as well. B&H has one of the...
View ArticlePartisan Sense of Entitlement
So I woke up this morning to read a diary arrogantly informing me that I was being arrogant to expect a voice in a party primary despite being a political independent:Registered independent voters do...
View ArticleWhat I Hope for, What I Fear
Full disclosure: I was against Hillary Clinton before the primary season even began, before I had any inkling that Bernie Sanders would run. If that bothers you, kindly stop reading now, get yourself a...
View ArticleWhite Male ≠ Republican
It’s about time someone pointed this out:To greatly oversimplify matters, Cohn finds that if you look closely at census and voter file data, the electorate was actually somewhat whiter in 2012 than...
View ArticleDonald Trump's Really Bad Language
Award-winning educator Nancie Atwell is well known (among those who know her) for her exemplary middle school writing workshop curriculum, Lessons That Change Writers. For the brief period of time that...
View Article'Join the Democratic Party,' They Said. 'Work Within the System,' They Said.
I’ve been away from Daily Kos for the past 10 days. I intended it to be longer, because kos has made it more explicit than ever that he believes independent citizens have no business attempting to...
View ArticleWe Have Three Tasks Ahead of Us Now
Hey, it's me. The GDI. I know, this is like an ex-boyfriend showing up at a Thanksgiving dinner that's supposed to be for family only, although for a long time most of you were real welcoming and...
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