Blackthorn

Mike Pinder of the Moody Blues: a musical appreciation

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

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…

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

There is no stopping at +2 degrees

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

Assange arrest bad in so many ways

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

You Don’t Suppose

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

Jethro Tull’s Stormwatch at 40

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

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 —…