BlackthorninBlackthornMike Pinder of the Moody Blues: a musical appreciationIf anyone ever changed the world with sheer sonorities, it was heMay 31May 31
BlackthorninBlackthornThe lab-leak hypothesis: an agonizing media dilemma about managing the narrative vs.What does it mean that both left-leaning and mainstream media are pushing back against the sudden political and scientific respect for the…Jun 23, 2021Jun 23, 2021
BlackthorninBlackthornElectability: how has “preventing another McGovern” worked out for the DNC? Not so wellHow these genius judges of presidential electability have managed to lose 6 out of 10 since 1980 — and have a plan to make it 7 out of 11Feb 19, 2020Feb 19, 2020
BlackthorninBlackthornWhat the DNC is really signalling with the Iowa hijack: a threat to push the self-destruct buttonThe DNC is preparing to fulfill its duty of co-opting and defusing progressivism — with the ultimate sacrifice if necesary.Feb 7, 2020Feb 7, 2020
BlackthorninBlackthornThere is no stopping at +2 degreesThe Paris climate accord has a fatal flaw: it assumes that halting carbon emissions will halt climate breakdownAug 26, 2019Aug 26, 2019
BlackthorninBlackthornAssange arrest bad in so many waysThe Assange arrest is bad in ways that are not even being mentionedApr 18, 2019Apr 18, 2019
BlackthorninBlackthornYou Don’t Suppose…Nuclear war and climate change — is someone planning for two wrongs to make a right?Mar 3, 2019Mar 3, 2019
BlackthorninBlackthornJethro Tull’s Stormwatch at 40An album about the price of raping nature, how politics become brutal when stress levels rise — from 1979Mar 3, 2019Mar 3, 2019
BlackthornJethro Tull’s Stormwatch at 40An album about the price of raping nature, how politics become brutal when stress levels rise — from 1979Mar 3, 2019Mar 3, 2019
BlackthorninBlackthornPolitical Rhetoric 101 for Beginners (such as Democratic candidates)As the November 2018 election campaigns take shape — and, probably even more important, in the day-to-day political work of pressuring…May 5, 2018May 5, 2018
