[NOTE: The ominous — oops, I mean Omnibus, heh-heh— bill passed by Congress Friday was 4100-plus pages. Mostly it was about money, which of course is important but I won’t focus on that here. What I searched for, amid the chatter about cash, was whether the completed bill included reforms to the Electoral Count Act … Continue reading Big Deal: Omnibus Bill Reforms Electoral Count Act
[NOTE: So who has the time over this crazy holiday weekend to read an 850-page Washington political thriller? Maybe more of us than we now realize, as a huge storm is freezing big swaths the continent into an icy, windy immobile weekend.
Enough babble about the World Cup. Spare me the hype surrounding the Super Bowl. I’m not even thinking of MLB Spring Training. There’s a spot in the Big American History Record Book waiting to be filled, and I’m fed up & full to the eyebrows with waiting.
[NOTE: i’m somewhat slow on the uptake, but numerous shocks of 2022 have pounded home the sense that the principal architect of our increasingly dominant regime of minority rule is the Supreme Court. To get more up to speed on this process, I’m reading Senator Sheldon Whitehouse’s fine new book, The Scheme. Whitehouse has been … Continue reading The Big Read: Supreme Beings — Taking on the Architects of Our Emerging Judicially-Spawned Authoritarian Order
God Rest YE — Oh, Wait — Who are you referring to, Mr. Chair— err, Santa?? It’s a Barrel of Trouble Now . . . Too Much Truth in This One . . .