Will The United States (Literally) Dodge a Bullet?




With President Donald Trump’s term soon coming to an end, the Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday finalized a rule that critics are calling a last-minute attempt to “sabotage” future efforts by President-elect Joe Biden’s incoming administration to tackle the intertwined climate and pollution crises. (more…)
A reader asks: What act by President Trump do you consider to be the most damaging to the country and its people? (Not COVID handling please.)Here’s a list of things off the top of my head. Trying to name the most damaging really isn’t possible, if only because in most cases their consequences are very long-term, and it’s impossible to know how all of this will ultimately play out.
One way of breaking this down is to divide the list into two parts: a) criminal and b) despicable, but probably not prosecutable. (more…)

To be honest, I’m more interested in the meaning and value of the law than the time in which it was written.


The fringe right-wing lawyer who filed the court challenge to Donald Trump’s election loss in Georgia has called on the president’s supporters to stock up on “Second Amendment supplies” — presumably firearms and ammunition — to prepare for what he apparently envisions as an apocalyptic future. (more…)
Reader Tom sent me this:
Some say that Lincoln should have simply let the Confederate States of America leave the union, allowing them to wither and die, as the CSA would have been so repulsive to the north and the rest of the world that it would have been completely isolated, not to mention devoid of technological innovation. After a few years the CSA would have been so debilitated that the Civil War, were there to be one, would have been over in a month with very few casualties, cities burned, etc. (more…)

Yet my gardens didn’t resemble this one….in the slightest.