Thousands were released from prison during covid. The results are shocking. Washington Post — Opinion by Molly Gill — September 29, 2022 Molly Gill is vice president of policy for Families Against Mandatory Minimums. We are keeping many people in prison even though they are no danger to the public, a jaw-dropping new statistic shows. … Continue reading We Can Safely Release Many Prisoners
Waiting for Hurricane Ian to arrive: How bad will it be? A closeup of our home county In The Yard: Will There Be Anything Left? How many of these big trees will be standing in a few … Continue reading Ian Coming: Thursday afternoon Update
[The most revealing analysis of the mythic underpinning of the authoritarian upsurge I’ve seen points straight to the “restoration” of a zombie version of white Jim Crow Dixie culture, circa 1920-1950. This survey bolsters that impression. Progressives who want to push back effectively against this drive need to get over the tendency to ignore this … Continue reading MAGA & Neo-Confederate Racism, By the Numbers
Gwynne Dyer — Sept. 28, 2022 [NOTE: How can we even be thinking and talking about this? How can we not?] Vladimir Putin’s desperation was plain in the emergency measures he declared last week: immediate mobilisation of at least 300,000 more troops, the sudden decision to use fake referendums to turn all the occupied parts … Continue reading Gwynne Dyer on Putin’s Nuclear “Bluff” (“Bluff”???)
We’re In The Yard, ignoring the slowly gathering overcast Just Kitty & the Zinnias & the cactus fruit & me . . . On the edges, two or three patches of Oxalis, one of my abiding favorites, is showing off. But they also know how to fold up & keep … Continue reading Meanwhile, In the State of North Car-oblivious . . .