Revisiting Purnell’s Iron Law of Politics — [ This is part two of a four-part series on modern-day America’s political divide. Part 1 introduced the topic by addressing the question, “Should America Adopt a Multiparty System?” This second article picks up on that theme by addressing the disconnect between people’s political views versus their policy positions. Part…

Arguments favoring a multiparty system are spurious — [ This is part 1 of a four-part series on modern-day America’s political divide. This article introduces the topic by addressing the question on whether a two-party system is better than a multiparty system, which dovetails into Part 2, “America’s Divide Isn’t ‘Liberals vs. Conservatives.‘”’ It’s the Ghost in the…

Most Americans don’t know what a lot of things are, but have an opinion about them anyway A story in AL.com, a news site dedicated to Alabama politics, ran a story with the headline, “Alabama lawmaker wants to ban critical race theory, so I asked him what it is.” The…

Policy makers thought the “Information Superhighway” would open up and democratize speech. You see where this is going. — [This is part 3 of a multipart series exploring America’s political divide. Part 1 addresses whether America’s divisions are caused by our two-party system (they’re not), while part 2 explores the difference between how Americans themselves feel about actual issues versus that of their parties (very different). In both articles…

Exclusive Pre-production video leaked! [ I got an exclusive!!! A friend of a friend knows a guy who drinks with a guy who’s a cameraman for a TV station, and that guy funneled a transcript from a video session all the way back to me. It was a joint PSA…

Read PurpleAir ratings and checking your air filters — often — Between August and September of 2020, those of us in the San Francisco Bay Area were trying to findN95 masks, as if our very lives depended on them. …

Bad Journalism Makes for Great Clickbait The headlines making the rounds throughout all of media — social and otherwise — is the one from Salon.com, “DeSantis signs bill requiring Florida students, professors to register political views with state.” Truth or Satire? Neither! It’s not true, nor is it intended to…

Test your IQ (Idiocy Quotient) with this handy quiz! In our zany world of politics, can you actually tell what’s a real headline, and what’s just political satire? …