Picking up from last Friday’s post: How does one become an informed and engaged citizen-voter? Here are the rules I try to follow myself when gathering information:
Read the Rest!And, Here We Go
It’s on.
The national party conventions are over; the true believers are energized. Unleash Death by 30-Second Slanders to win enough votes from the 30% of “independent” registered voters who gag on politics to get to 270 in the Electoral College.
Read the Rest!Occupy Thanksgiving
This Thanksgiving, I’m grateful that young people—in the streets and otherwise—are, openly and with persistence, questioning authority.
Read the Rest!Another GOP Orphan
Based on some of the reactions I received to last week’s Rant, it may be worse out there than even I expected.
Read the Rest!Adopt a (Real) Republican
To those millions of Americans who have finally begun paying attention to politics and watched with exasperation the tragicomedy of the debt ceiling extension, it may have come as a shock that the Republican Party is so full of lunatics.
Read the Rest!Sick of Politics?
Even with one week to go–had enough of the infinite but intensifying demolition derby of cash-infused calumny that our electoral campaigns have become?
Read the Rest!Placekickers II
Picking up from last week: Who gets the ball, why, and how we get it back. “Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.”– Plato
Read the Rest!Placekickers I
If life in America today is like the game of American football, we citizens – you and I, the rank and file – are sociopolitical placekickers.
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