This…Former President

During last night’s debate VP Harris had a moment where she had to remind herself she was national TV. Stephen Colbert’s response is the appropriate one Now, you could argue she shouldn’t resort to cursing and name calling. That it’s beneath the dignity of the office for a president, vice Read more…

Rule of Law

While reading through gaming rulebooks, I started musing on the rules of life. That leads off into many different tangents, as musings tend to do. But what I wanted to focus on was the core concept of the Rule of Law. On the surface, rules exist in order to allow Read more…

What is time?

Phew, it’s been a spell hasn’t it? Over a year since my last post of any kind, and almost two since I did anything other than a republish from d20 Radio. So what happened? Well, d20 Radio ran into some back end tech trouble that resulted in many visitors being Read more…

A Great Weight Was Lifted

“In each of these moments, enough of us, enough of us have come together to carry all of us forward. “- Joseph Biden Watching the inauguration today I quite literally felt a great weight lift from my soul. It feels hollow and trite to say that but its true. I Read more…

Results Are In

That was a tense week. Let’s take a look at what I hoped would happen Trump is defeated No violence at the polls No shenanigans in determining a winner Democrats take enough seats in state legislatures to ensure fair redistricting McGrath defeats McConnell Democrats retain the House Democrats take the Read more…

Decision Time

It’s finally here. Election day in the US. I’ve been quiet here for the last few months. I got a bit overwhelmed with everything happening. I got myself caught in a trap of feeling like if I posted anything I would have to address everything happening and if I posted Read more…

Death from a Thousand Cuts

Trump has ordered collection of payroll taxes “suspended” from September through the end of the year. The claim is that this to help those in need because Congress couldn’t come to an agreement about another stimulus. But really, this is how they kill Social Security. First off, this is a Read more…

Society is a Contract

Wow. A lot has happened in the past week. The US has surpassed 100,000 COVID-19 deaths. It’s now June. And the police brutally murdered a black man. But that’s not unusual. What is unusual is that it has precipitated protests, which have spread out nationwide and don’t show signs of Read more…

If you…

If you aren’t outraged by the murder of Ahmed Aubrey… If you think the lockdown needs to be lifted so you can get a haircut… If you support armed white men storming a government people but opposed black men kneeling at a football game… If you think carrying a gun Read more…