The only difference between this and Jim Crow is that in the latter era this would have been an acquittal: A mistrial has been declared in the case against Michael Slager, the former police officer that shot and killed Walter Scott, an unarmed black man, in South Carolina in April 2015. A circuit judge confirmed […]
Month: December 2016
Appointing someone who admits to being completely unqualified for a job, and who also happens to be black, to that very job is exactly what one would expect a racist to do, since that’s a racist
Pat McCrory has concluded that despite his best efforts the election is not close enough for him to steal: North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory (R) on Monday finally conceded in the state’s governor&
I mean, really, it’s not complicated. The Democrats don’t have to innovate. The roadmap has been laid out: The Republicans were pumped because they saw a path out of the political wilderness. They were convinced that even if Obama kept winning policy battles, they could win the broader messaging war simply by remaining unified and […]
Hey folks! As I said last time, I’ll be doing some blogging of my ongoing Call of Cthulhu campaign to counter-balance the existential dread of real life with some fictional existential dread! When
I make my debut in The New Republic by examining the increasing political irrelevance of environmentalism as a movement and urging it to embrace struggles based upon the lived experience of everyday p
What does Joe Lieberman have to say about the future of the Democratic Party? No, don’t bother reading the link. You already know what he has to say and that you don’t care.
Someone started a rumor that a local restaurant was involved in a child trafficking ring run by Clinton. The restaurant and its employees received a lot of threats on the phone and online. Today some
I’m so old that I remember when praising a Russian leader was a distinctly un-American thing to do. As the founder of the Traditionalist Worker Party, an American group that aims to preserve the
The following characterization does not by any means describe all LGM commenters, or even a majority. But there is certainly a strong group of people around here who look down on direct action protest as a mode of political action, arguing that political organizing needs to primarily happen within the electoral system and that getting […]
I’m Jameson Quinn, a grad student in statistics at Harvard and a board member of the Center for Election Science, aka electology.org, a nonprofit that advocates for voting method reform. In these ca
Question for everyone: My parents are entering a situation where fairly significant remodeling of the house is in order for them to be able to stay there as they age. My parents aren’t all that