Jethro Tull’s Stormwatch at 40

An album about the price of raping nature, how politics become brutal…

What the DNC is really signalling with the Iowa hijack: a threat to push the self-destruct button

Memo to Trump: Release the JFK Files Now, If Only To Save Your Own Ass

I don’t know what the truth is about Russiagate. The evidence presented so far does not strongly indicate, never mind prove, that Putin made a serious try to shoehorn Trump into the presidency. If he had…

Mike Pinder of the Moody Blues: a musical appreciation

Political 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 one’s representatives, opponents and teammates to do the right thing —…

The lab-leak hypothesis: an agonizing media dilemma about managing the narrative vs. empowering the mob

Assange arrest bad in so many ways

The Assange arrest is bad in so many ways that are not even being mentioned

There is no stopping at +2 degrees

The Paris climate accord has a fatal flaw: it assumes that halting…

Electability: how has “preventing another McGovern” worked out for the DNC? Not so well

How these genius judges of presidential electability have managed to lose 6 out of 10 since 1980 — and have a plan…

You Don’t Suppose

Nuclear war and climate change — is someone planning for two wrongs to make a right?