Category: The World
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Reality TV presidency
This risk of a reality TV star being President is you get what they know: drama every day about obviously bad decisions that could have been avoided with a modicum of thought before executing them. Personally, I feel like the government works well when it is doing what it needs to do without causing drama.…
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People forget the new in news
I see quite a bit of worry about how the mainstream media doesn’t cover Trump and Biden the same way. Biden makes mistakes in the way he speaks and its breathlessly covered for weeks. For months Trump made the same mistakes and barely a story. Why? The news covered Trump’s mistakes and stumbles in 2016…
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Third parties
Several United States political parties routinely appear on the presidential ballots every four years. But, I think they go about it all wrong. Let’s say the Libertarian party wins. Chase Oliver becomes president. He’s president with a Congress that’s Democratic or Republican in one or both chambers. He’s going to have a hard time with…
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U.S. foreign aid & immigration
The United States uses foreign policy to save money. Wars are expensive. A single Hellfire missile costs more than my annual salary. That’s one shot. It doesn’t include the operational costs to get the missile in place to fire it. The superior firepower makes winning likely, but we don’t have a great track record of…
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A modest incentive
I believe current Federal policy covers medical costs for COVID-19 testing and treatment. If we slightly adjust such policy such that only vaccinated or those allergic to ingredients or medically ineligible are covered, then I think perhaps it might be another incentive to get vaccinated. Of course, this should go into effect after the FDA…
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Sports signage in times of pandemic
In watching some futbol (aka soccer aka English football) matches this past year, it kind of seems like some of them have maybe increased the sponsorship names on the stadium seats. It kind of makes sense that with no butts in seats, this is real estate that is more on camera than in the past.…
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End the political ads
Got a canvasser who thanked me for having already voted. The visit was to ask if other members of the household have voted and if not, then do they have a plan? What was interesting to me was the campaign knew I had already voted. I did last week on my day off. And I…
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Modern Red Record
I read The Red Record: Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States in 2015. It was a couple years after the start of #BlackLivesMatter. I read it after the mayor of Charleston claimed not to know about the treatment of blacks, so people created reading lists, and this was on them.…
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Election season: My re-reading list voting
Anatomy of an election ‘meltdown’ in Georgia (this was June and November will have double the voters) How to hack an election Mandatory Voting vs Quasi-Mandatory Voting