Titles of and Links to Posts since January 23, 2017

[Notes: (1) Links to posts published exclusively or jointly on Daily Kos have been added, retroactively, beginning April 17, 2020. The Daily Kos versions may differ from the versions on this blog in title and other respects. (2) For technical reasons, the date of this post above is incorrect. The listings and links are current.]

What Will Justice Look Like?
Vaccination “Passports”: Cause and Effect
Black is Beautiful: Beautiful Minds
Evolving Pathogens and Airplanes as Disease Vectors
National Psychosis, its Cure and Prevention
January 6 and the Demagogue
Unfit to Govern
Common Sense and Trump’s Second Trial
Fear of Flying Filibusterless
“Efficiency,” the Myths of Markets, Minimum Wages, and a Universal Basic Income
Circumventing the Filibuster
Kill the Filibuster!
Safe!
MLK Day 2021
Social Media Paying the Piper
Social Platforms’ Roles in Treason and Harmful Disinformation
Conspiracies are Real
Why Impeach Again Now [after the Capitol Insurrection of January 6, 2021]
Being Prepared [for the next insurrection]
[The Capitol Insurrection of] January 6, 2021
Summary Expulsion [of errant members of Congress]
Georgia and Character
Gouging, Monopoly and the Power of Kings: the Unintended Consequences of Distributed Corporate Tyranny
The Gift of Silence
Eric Holder for AG, Again!
Xavier Becerra, Lloyd Austin and the Politics of Diversity
Cape Up!
Bring Exile Back
Thanksgiving Redemption 2020
When the Din Subsides
Retail Politics and Trumpism
Hydrogen as a Battery
Lessons from the Dems’ Post-Mortem
Just Shut Him Off
Biden/Harris Won!!!
Airline Amnesia
Rome Redux
Covid-19 and Discipline
Reinvigorating Majority Rule
Come Home! (An Open Letter to American Workers)
Tipping Points [in our species’ survival and our politics]
The Perils of “Originalism”
LeBron James
Jaime Harrison
The Harris-Pence Debate and the GOP’s Big Jobs Lies
The Danger [of Trump’s infection] is Yet to Come
An Open Message to America’s Youth
A Date [Trump’s and our people’s] with Destiny
The Cornered Rat
Don’t Forget the Senate!
The Party of Domination [the GOP]
Focus [on Dumping Trump] or Die
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Human Evolution is on the Ballot
Two Superstitions Ruining the US
The GOP’s Final Night: A Full-Metal Demagogue on Fantasy Island
The Dems’ Third Night
The Dems’ Virtual Convention [2020, the first two days]
Time Lags and the Killing of Obama’s Expansion
Kamala Harris, Catalyst
“Vice-President Kamala Harris” [or on DK]
Our Modern Congress: Designed to Fail [or on DK]
Biden’s VP, Redux [or on DK]
Serenity and Covid-19 [or on DK]
Nuts, Bolts, Spare Parts, Catheters and T-bills: the Unplumbed Depths of America’s Weakness [or on DK]
John Lewis’ Final Lesson [or on DK]
Confusion [or on DK]
What’s Not China’s Fault [or on DK]
A Dozen Big Reasons to Vote for Joe Biden [or on DK]
A Nation of Willful Children [who won’t wear masks] [or on DK]
Understanding China
Charles Booker, a Chance Missed
What’s in a Name, or How GOP Extremists Win
Something to Believe In [on July 4, 2020]
Carlos Ingram Lopez, R.I.P. [another non-white male recently revealed to have been murdered by police] [or on DK]
Workers are not Things [at least not in Japan]
Juneteenth [or on DK]
Why I Won’t Fly
Rayshard Brooks, R.I.P.
Voting: A Humble Tool with a Long Lever Arm [and Stacey Abrams’ know-how] [or on DK]
Don’t Get Mad or Sad, Get Justice [for systemic racism and the police murder of George Floyd] [or on DK]
A Durable Coalition for the Dems [or on DK]
For Our Skilled Workers [or on DK]
The Inanity of “Globalization” [or on DK]
Our Failed State [statistics on Covid-19 debacle]
Ignoring Trump [DK]
Incompetence or Willful Malfeasance? [of Trump Administration in responding to pandemic] [or on DK]
Coda: An Extraordinary Achievement [Stacey Abrams’ near 2018 win in Georgia]
Joe Biden’s Vice-President [or on DK]
“Pigs at the Trough” [the GOP’s primary constituency for forty years] [or on DK]
The Expendables [non-essential workers in Red States that jump the gun in breaking lockdown] [or on DK]
Two Rays of Pandemic Hope [plans for all-out testing and quarantining, and a chance for oral polio vaccine to trigger “innate” immunity] [or on DK]
Fixing Modern Economics [for workers’ benefit] [or on DK]
He’s Baack! [President Obama]
Preliminary Lore on Covid-19 Immunity and Antibody Testing
Bernie Said it First!
The War on our Own Government [DK]
The Big Picture: Stages in our Pandemic “War”
Lies the Pandemic Has Already Debunked
Obama is Hope
Endnote: More on Henry Ford [and his historic economic significance]
The Profit Paradox
Improvised PPE
Back to Work? Not so Fast!
Viruses are Not Alive
Pandemic Choices
Mobilizing to Fight the Pandemic
Post-Covid Antibody Testing: Getting Back on Our Feet
Words Fail [to describe how bad Trump is] [DK]
The Great Culling
Covid-19: the Scythe is Coming
[Why I’m] Going for Biden
Political Neurosis [resolving around Joe Biden] [DK]
Why the Democratic Primaries Aren’t Over Yet
Biden Surges Ahead
Where We Are before Super Tuesday
Two Things the Public Needs to Know about Covid-19
Endnote: Warren Gets Tough
An Eight-Year-Old Writes the GOP
Five Reasons Why Bernie Sanders Can Win [DK]
Why We Swim in a Cesspool of Lies [DK]
The Dems’ Nevada Debate
How to Stop a Pandemic
What Do New Hampshire’s Votes Mean?
Impressions of the Democrats’ New Hampshire Debate
A Good Boss [Bloomberg?] and a Good Team
Was Trump’s Acquittal the People’s Will?
Our Own Stalinist Empire
Thirty-Three Reasons to Vote for a Woman
Endnote: A Word about Men [and Trump’s treatment of women]
Knowing What You Know
Empire of the United States
Is Democracy Stable?
America is Broken
Endnote: A Warren/Abrams Ticket?
How to Pick a Dem
The Case for Medicare for All
Warren’s Waterloo?
It’s the Team, Stupid!
Accurate Weapons III
The Power of Spectacle and Campaign Strategy
Minority Rule and Election Strategy
In-Person Appearances
The Fatal Seduction of Polling
Minority Enfranchisement
The Dems’ December 2019 Debate
An Apology for Doubting our House Leaders
The Case for “Mayor Pete”
Feedback that Could Decimate our Species
Our Second-to-Last Chance [to save our Republic]
“Identity Politics” and Human Survival
The Big Picture [behind American tribal divisions and resistance to Trump’s impeachment]
The Paradox of Power
A Grim Thanksgiving
An Open Letter to Elizabeth Warren
Two Regulatory Heroes [who require real fixing of the 737 Max]
What’s the GOP’s Real Game Plan? [on impeachment, scroll down]
The Dems’ Atlanta Debate: Practice Makes Better
Facing the Revenge of the Nerds
“Populist”: An Epithet of Modern Propaganda
Endnote: Turning Good Words into Epithets
Update (11/15/19): “Blacks” as Real Hyphenated Americans
How New York Can Help [save us from Trumpism]
What if Warren is the One?
Beefing Up Our Estate Tax to Whittle Down Our Oligarchy
A Slow-Motion Coup d’Etat
Bureaucracy Can Be Good for You
The Dems’ October Debate
Rage and Empathy
Who Should Impeach: Schiff or Nadler?
Giving Democracy One More Try
There is No “Market” for Health Care
Eighteen plus Seventeen equals Thirty-Five [the logic of Dems’ strong and weak positions]
The Dems’ Third Debate in Houston
CNN’s Subversive Climate Marathon
Lies the Oligarchs Tell Us
Is Anglo-American Democracy Done?
De-Conning America
The Business Roundtable and the Garner Case: Good News, Bad News
Who’s Emperor Now?
The Generational Seesaw [from Greatest to Boomers]
A National Nightmare (A So-Far Fictional Future History)
Dog-Day Wish: A New Manhattan Project for Safe Nuclear Energy
Why Buttigieg?
The Anticlimactic Second Democratic Debate in Detroit
A Morning-After View [of the Dems’ first Detroit debate]
Endnote: CNN and the ongoing privatization of American democracy
The Dems Come Back Hard! [in their first Detroit debate]
Digital Unions
Fixing America: Adjust It, Don’t Burn It
Ross Perot’s Lessons for Pols and Tom Steyer
Only Five [non-Democrats voting for censure]
Refusing to Watch the Show
Reparations: Why, to Whom, How Much and for How Long?
Three Things the Dems Must Do to Win
The Dems Shoot Themselves in their Feet
Why Current Multi-Candidate “Debates” Suck
Toward Better Debates
The First Democratic Debate [of 2019]
Third-Guessing 2016
Seven Reasons not to Make War on Iran
Elizabeth Warren, Defender of Science
The Quality of Her Mind
Responsibility and Foreboding
In Memoriam: June 4, 1989
Infrastructure
Why Pelosi is Right
Roe, Roe, Roe your Boat . . .
The Huawei Tech Block: the NYT and the Trump Administration Get it Wrong
Ten Practical Reasons to Dump Oil as an Energy Source for Ground Transportation
Competition and Cooperation with China
Chaos is not a Plan
Make Plans, not War [DK]
Elizabeth Warren, Woman with a Plan [DK]
Not Doing Your Job
The Real Game of Thrones
Big “Gas Tanks” for Electrons
[Democrats, bide your time and] Don’t Eat Your Young (or Your Old)!
Free Fall [of the US under Trump and the UK under Brexit]
Why an “Invasion” from “The Triangle”?
Universal Health Insurance: Nine Points of Common Sense
Has the West Had It?
What Is the Mueller Report?
The Mueller Report: A Beginning, not an End
Could it Be Beto or Pete?
Software is Nonlinear: An Elegy for 346 Air Victims
The 737 Max Disasters
The New York Times Spews Propaganda, Too
How High-School Teachers Could Help Save American Democracy
A Modern Team of Rivals
The Decline of Rules-Based Civilization
Avoiding Health Lobbying Armageddon
Saving Real News
UPDATE: [Zuckerberg’s] Scam’s Other Dimension
Zuckerberg’s Scam
Crossing the Line [between constitutional democracy and dictatorship]
Colin Kaepernick’s Good Work
Universal Health Insurance: Medicare for All Who Want It
How Purity Subverts Strategy
Endnote: The Temptation of Twitter
Trump’s SOTU Speech and the Response
Who Can Beat Trump?
Why the Huawei Indictment is a Big, Big Deal
A New Sheriff in Town [Speaker Pelosi]
How Trump could Kill Your Kids
MLK Day 2019
The Downsides of Openness [and what we really ought ask of China]
Why the President and Congress Can’t “Get to Yes”
Mac Browser Wars: A Letter from the Front Lines
Experience and Speaker Pelosi
Why Natural-Gas and Electric Cars are Vital for our National Security
The “TMI Effect” and How to Save Democracy from Facebook
The Last Adult is Leaving the White House. Who will Shut Off the Lights?
What Makes a Democrat?
How Our Two Parties Lost their Souls
The Fate of Man [after Putin High-Fived MBS]
Sun-Powered Driving
Thanksgiving Message 2018
How Advocates are Destroying Global Society, with Facebook in Front
A Last Word to the Young [about the midterms]
You Can Help End Our Civil War [by your vote in the midterms]
How to Avoid Being Duped and Stay Sane
Apple: Please Spin Off OS X (An Open Letter to Tim Cook)
How I Voted and Why
Rampage of the Mind-Rapists
The Sham “Investigation”
Sixteen Reasons to Vote This Time for Democrats Only
The GOP’s Fork re Kavanaugh [DK]
Coda: Why and for Whom it’s Personal Now
How Important is Kavanaugh’s Alleged Attempted Rape?
President Obama: Hope versus Fear
The End [of Trumpism] Seems Nigh [DK]
A Time of Testing
Does Henry Ford Yet Live? Trump’s Deal with Mexico
John McCain: A Man of Honor
Stacey Abrams [DK]
Other Good Candidates and Causes
From the “I told you so!” Department: NYT Confirms How Primitive So-Called “AI” is Now
Twitter and Impulse Control
America’s Awakening
Danger, Men in Charge
Donation Crunch Time: the Geezers versus the Oligarchs
Two Under-Appreciated Threats to Modern Life [Dark money transfers and untraceable and undetectable assault weapons]
Waiting for the Crash
Reihan Salam
What Can CEOs Do?
Will America follow Ancient Rome Down History’s Drain?
A Post-Fourth Reprise [of the Trump and Obama Administrations]
Waging War With No Plan
Vote Character
North Korea Facts and Myth
Training New Voters II
Trump’s and Kim’s First Meeting
Trump and Kim, Stumbling toward Peace
Training New Voters
S.K.I.N and CRISPR: Two Ways Out of Stagflation
Voting Made Easy
¡Vive la France! [Emmanuel Macron’s speech before Congress]
How Dismal Is Economics Really?
The Race to 2043: Proving the American Idea
How American Capitalists Transferred Americans’ Jobs and Intellectual Property to China
Six Good Reasons to Delete Facebook
“AI” Hype
How Treasonous Fox Played Kim’s Game
Overkill [in nuclear weapons and guns]
Alpha-Male Rule
“Random”: the Rise and Fall of Facebook, Twitter and Perhaps American Society
The Dysfunctional States of America
Coda: Prayers and Condolences [versus gun control]
Majority Rule: What a Concept!
Do Good by Doing Well [Taking Profits]
Seven Reasons to Deploy Small Nukes
The Immigration “Fork”
Anticompetence and the Coming Crash
President Trump’s State of the Union Speech
Joe Kennedy’s Response
The Real Effect of Trump’s Solar-Panel Tariffs
NYT Buries Global Women’s March, Fox-Like
The New York Times Doubles Fox
Why Fox’ Propaganda is so Effective in the US
Hold that Image [of Trump’s racism]! Remember!
Effete Media II, or Why I Won’t (Yet) Subscribe to the New York Times
Happy MLK Day [2018]!
Effete Media
MAAA!
Treason, Dereliction of Duty, Common Law, and Common Sense
Pearl Harbor III
Ajit Pai: Taking Big Brother Private
The Fall of a Raging Bull [Roy Moore]
Inflation: Unanswered Questions
A Blue White House in 2020
A Progressive Manifesto
Seven Reasons Why Trump Could be Impeached and Removed Next Year
Why this White Geezer is Looking for Black and Brown Candidates to Support
Some Questions for Trump Voters
Emperor Trump, or Why Tillerson and the Generals Must Stay
America the Afraid
The Missing Element in a Progressive Revival: White Outrage
Black Protests, Hidden Reasons
Why the “Trump Bump” is Over
Plain Talk about Immigration
Avoiding War in North Korea
“Soft” Corruption Grips America
Gary Cohn and the Subtle Treachery of Self-Importance
A Tale of Two Wars
E Pluribus Unum
What Awaits Us: the “Prophecy” of Cause and Effect
North Korea: will we make a pre-emptive nuclear strike?
Ignorance and Incompetence: the Big Risks
How Business Schools Helped Ruin America, and What to do About it
Nero of our Time
The Free World’s Female Leader
Our Political AIDS Infection
How the Clintons Destroyed the Democratic Party
Lawless Life under “Corporate Governance”
An Open Letter to Registered Voters in Georgia’s Sixth Congressional District
Is Trump a Traitor?
The Other Mitch
Is the end nigh?
How to “investigate” and totally miss the point [of Putin’s intervention]
Trump’s “Threefer” [in firing Comey]
Killing the Brutes, not Millions of Innocents
Women versus Fox
Decaying Empire
Implications of Trump’s Syria Strike
The Internet’s Most Deadly Spawn: AI and “Weaponized,” Individualized Propaganda and Fake News
Government by Showmanship, Bumper Stickers, Tweets and Blame
Trump Two Months Out
Health Insurance for Dummies
Warren 2020
Republican Labor Hypocrisy
General Michael Flynn: Truth Bats Last
Down Under
Who is Steve Bannon?
Trump as Magician-in-Chief
Contradictions [in Trump’s acts and policies]
How The Economist is Killing its Children
Trump’s inauguration
A GOP Takeover of PBS
MLK Day 2017
Grading Trump’s Presidency: Benchmarks
Blocking Jeff Sessions
Five Essential Truths about Russia

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