Taking Care of Ourselves and Each Other
Brothers and sisters: tonight is a devastating event that will leave many of us grief-stricken, angry, frightened, confused, and feeling like we have entered an alternate universe. Mother Jones once...
View ArticleTrump: Just Another Medicine Show/Ready To Be Exposed
As the American frontier expanded there were many communities that had no real health care. In these rural areas folk remedies, most of limited effect, were the only treatments. Indian medicine...
View ArticleHow Dems Can Regain the House and Senate in 2018
How Democrats Can Retake the House and SenateThe 2018 mid-term elections could and should be a wave election for Democrats. Democrats lead the generic congressional polls by an average of 13%, an...
View ArticleCelebration Poem
For all who have resisted the past four yearsthe marchersdoor knockerspost cardersphone talkersFor the candidates who gave it all of their time in GeorgiaArizonaor on Philly’s Main LineIn memory of...
View ArticleVirgin, Momala, Whore
Semiotics: the study of signs and symbols and their use or interpretation.As a talking head on PBS’s coverage of the DNC, never Trump Republican David Brooks of the NYT opined that the Democrats were...
View ArticleCanvassing Report from Wilkes-Barre, PA
I spent last weekend canvassing for Kamala Harris in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, a city situated beautifully in the Wyoming Valley and Pocono Mountains.The Harris campaign has 50 coordinated offices in...
View ArticleRepublican Rape Culture: Daughters Have No Autonomy When Daddies Want to...
From Maggie Astor’s reporting in the New York Times (10/24) on Tucker Carlson’s introduction of Trump at a rally in Duluth, GA on Wednesday night:If you allow your hormone-addled 15 year old daughter...
View ArticleWhy Harris Wins: Turnout, Sanity, GOP Racism, Women
Turnout 2024“It’s all about turnout” is a joke meme among campaign veterans. Yeah, duh, you’ve got to get your people out to vote but most elections are not so close that 63% participation by likely...
View ArticleElection Night Victory Viewing, Part 1
Senate and east coast house racesJim HannonNov 03, 2024I’m looking forward to tomorrow night. I am increasingly confident that Harris will win, for reasons I laid out in my last post, “Why Harris...
View ArticleThe Six Stages of Political Grief
The Six Stages of Political GriefDenial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, Acceptance and …….Element removedJim HannonNov 23, 202465ShareI have felt a lot of emotions since the election. It has taken me a...
View ArticleWhat Congressional Representation Tells Us About DEI and Politics
I think race is almost always the most important issue in a U.S. presidential election. The challenge for the party more committed to the needs and interests of minority groups is to get those voters...
View ArticleFlinging Poo at the SOTU
When I was a college sophomore in Washington, DC I lived a short walk from the National Zoo. On an afternoon when I didn’t have a class (or did) I would take a book, sit on a bench, not read the book,...
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