For awhile now, I’ve been following the case of Charles Burton, an Alabama man who participated in a robbery-gone-bad decades ago. His accomplice shot a man dead, but Burton wasn’t involved in the murder. Yet Alabama has a doctrine called ‘felony murder’ which in essence means that even if you did not do the deed […]
Category: Politics
Eight Turncoats and a Coward
I’m working hard at staying true to my commitment of not only talking about politics here (and have a few additions almost ready to put up elsewhere on my site!) but after Sunday night’s news, I have to say something, even if it’s just to Bobrov and bot-friends. We had a good night on the […]
Turning Point
Today, Charlie Kirk was shot and killed while at a speaking engagement. Broad daylight, hit in the neck. There’s footage online but I don’t recommend seeking it out unless you have a strong stomach. The clip I came across was five seconds long. Kirk was my age, 31. Born just half a year before me. […]
Good Trouble
I first heard about Cory Booker’s speech a few hours in, when I idly checked my newsfeed. I figured he was going to go all night as a matter of protest. Seven hours later during my lunch break, I checked C-SPAN. Still going. After I clocked out? Still going. For over 25 hours, Senator Booker […]
Destroy It All, Punish A Few
Tonight, PBS Newshour aired a segment where an ex-ranger, Lydia Jones for the National Park Service was interviewed. It’s in light of the recent swath of firings that’s affected the entire federal government. There aren’t many unequivocally good things the United States has done. Even in that category, most are making up for a mistake […]
Hopium vol. I
I think it’s important to dream of better days in times like this. Possible futures, optimistic ways the next few years might play out. Don’t get lost in the pipe dreams, but occasionally sitting down to fantasize is refreshing in my experience. Plus, it may lead to good ideas! Not that I’d say the following […]
I am Angry About Missiles
President Trump’s Executive Order to begin construction of the ‘American Iron Dome’ There’s about a hundred other issues that have equal, if not greater importance to the current state of our nation than this. The federal grants freeze, the attack on birthright citizenship, you name it. I’m not exactly sure what neuron of mine snapped […]
Inauguration
(Transcribed and edited from raw audio rambling. Listen here if you really have nothing better to do.) Where to start? So I knew when the inauguration was, and that I would have feelings about it. I told myself in the lead up to it happening that I would practice what I’m preaching and give the […]
1933
“We have officially entered into the ‘fever dream’ portion of the campaign.” Jon Stewart managed to sum up the last two weeks in so few words at the beginning of his monologue at The Daily Show, but it’s hard to accept that this isn’t a dream. It’s hard to accept that Trump not only won, […]
Supreme Court Reform – Reappointments
One of the hottest governmental topics right now is Supreme Court reform. The Biden administration has made it an official point of focus in its final months, a sort of rubber stamp to the years of discussion happening in more progressive circles—itself a response to how the previous three appointments to the heads of the […]
