Harsh Your Mellow Monday: No Good Answers Edition
A shooting in Atlanta shows a reckoning is a hard to acquire, lessons in governing from Seattle summer camp, and the primary heats up…for 2024
Category: Government
Wednesday Writs: Mailing It In Edition
Qualified Immunity, a blockbuster summer for the Supreme Court, lawyers going to lawyer, and a $67 million dollar lawsuit over missing paints in Wednesday Writs.
Harsh Your Mellow Monday: Mission Creep and Opposite the Editors Edition
The dangers of mission creep in push for police reform, who watches the opinion section watchers of the New York Times, and stats that aren’t helpful.
Derek Chauvin’s Charges, Explained
The news that Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison elevated the charge against Derek Chauvin to second degree murder for the death of George Floyd brought mixed reactions. For some it was satisfactory; for others...
Integralists: America’s Would-be Theocrats
If Integralism sounds like fascism, well, that’s because it sounds like fascism. Integralists should be treated as such, as well as its advocates
An Appalling Lack of Rights: From Inalienable, to meritorious, to “Yeah, but…”
The ideal of “inalienable rights” has too often been changed to “meritorious rights” by flawed people adding “they have rights, but…”
Harsh Your Mellow Monday: Fire, Fury, and Frustration Edition
Every time we do this, folks will insist “This is the moment…” that everything is going to be different. God I hope it is. I pray it is. I doubt it is.
3rd Degree Murder, Manslaughter Charges Brought in Death of George Floyd
The first arrest of the former Minneapolis Police Officers involved in the George Floyd killing has come.
Howard County Maryland and the Devil in the Religious Service Details
As local municipalities work towards implementing their respective governor’s re-opening guidelines, Howard County, Maryland, raised some eyebrows with theirs
Linky Friday: Unassailable Facts, and Other Fabrications
Linky Friday, Ordinary Times’ end of the week tradition brings you items to read, share, and discuss from around the web, from culture, to politics, to that Joe Biden interview everyone will be talking about.
The Last Confession of Jane Roe
The most passionate of all our political debates is about to get a whole new, ugly chapter in it’s long history opened up.
Latest Round of Stimulus Debated in Congress
Speaker Nancy Pelosi has unveiled the plan for another $3 trillion in spending to offset the effects of the Coronavirus economic shutdown.
New Mexico Governor Reads Gallup the Riot Act
The old saying to misbehaving folks that you are going to “read them the riot act” if they don’t get in line became a reality when NM Gov Grisham invoked the little-used Riot Control Act to lock down the town of Gallup.
The Ballad of Gregory Rigano
Gregory Rigano is no different from any other clown-show grifters. But at the end of the day, he may end up with the biggest body count
Las Vegas Follies: Goodman, Cooper, and Content Upon Content
Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman and CNN’s Anderson Cooper spent nearly twenty minutes of quality TV time together. Let us take it in together
President Trump Executive Order: “Temporarily Suspend Immigration Into the United States”
Late Monday night the president took to Twitter to announce what would be a major development, and an executive order sure to be controversial.
Stimulus Legislation “Loophole” Allows Garnishment of Relief Checks
This is one of them things that can make a bad situation involving people already under pressure exponentially worse
I Predict 2021
The Coronavirus Pandemic will change the world in many ways. We just don’t know how it will change.
Protecting Workers Is How We Protect the Economy
Why do we keep talking about “the economy” as though it’s not made out of human lives?
The Director of the CDC Might Have Lied To Us
The likely reason the United States will not get drive-through testing is because we lack the testing capability, not because we want to preserve the provider-patient relationship.
