December 18, 2018

Does the 13th Amendment nullify the Senate and the Electoral College?

There is an argument that basically says the Constitution protected slavery up until 1865. Two ways in which the Constitution protected slavery were the Senate and the Electoral College.

The Senate is the product of a compromise that, while it made sense at the time, rested on assumptions that haven’t been true for more than a century. It was an early bulwark for southern slaveholders and a firewall protecting Jim Crow. https://thinkprogress.org/antidemocratic-history-of-senate-d05688f441b8/

The Electoral College allowed states to count slaves, albeit at a discount (the three-fifths clause), and that's what gave the South the inside track in presidential elections. In a direct election system, the South would have lost every time. https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/11/12/13598316/donald-trump-electoral-college-slavery-akhil-reed-amar

The Senate and the Electoral College were created to protect slavery. With one exception, the 13th Amendment abolished slavery. I know it's a stretch, but, couldn't a legal case be made to nullify the Senate and the Electoral College based on the 13th Amendment?

December 2, 2018

Star Trek Discovery Season 2. January 19.

I've been a diehard fan of Star Trek since the very beginning in 1965. However, I am disappointed with Star Trek Discovery. Season 2 will be make or break with me. If they can fix this show, I'll keep watching it.

November 11, 2018

Trump can't tear down

what we have built up:



This is from the Dia de los Muertos parade in Albuquerque on Sunday, November 4, 2018.

October 22, 2018

Our democracy is at stake - GET OUT AND VOTE!!!

GOP is attempting to lock up our government forever with fascist hyper-capitalism.

Get out and vote!!!

September 27, 2018

Tears of a bully

"...don’t be fooled: they were the tears of a bully. Brett Kavanaugh was as mad as a privileged white man can be at the prospect of losing a coveted seat on the US Supreme Court to a girl who wasn’t part of his Georgetown Prep social circle back in their high school days. How dare someone like that mess up the careful career plan he built upon fealty to Republican smear tactics?"

https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2018/09/27/brett-kavanaugh-and-tears-bully/J8PkbzqwcqSz8Fbk02UEYI/story.html

September 8, 2018

Bugsplat?

Is it harmless or harmful?

I saw it briefly appear on my Mac's dock, then it disappeared.

May 23, 2018

Awesome bumper sticker collection

May 7, 2018

CNN and MSNBC 24/7 Trump channels

Sorry if this has been talked about previously.

I am getting fed up with watching CNN and MSNBC. Their shows, content, discussions, almost exclusively cover Trump.

True, they do sometimes (maybe rarely, depending on your level of cynicism) call out Trump and his minions on their lies. Even if they call out the lies, the coverage speaks for itself.

In the end, they are 24/7 Trump channels. Almost never do they allow anyone with an opposing ideology (Social Democracy, the Green Party, the Zeitgeist Movement, etc.) on their channels to discuss alternatives to Trumpism.

I guess the corporations that run these channels and their advertisers won't allow alternative ideologies any airtime.

Corporatism = Trumpism. CNN and MSNBC are corporations.

Maybe they occasionally call out the lies in order to fool the viewers into thinking they are responsible journalists.

Sorry for the rant.

March 13, 2018

Trump is a D.I.C.K.

Divider-In-Chief Kafkaesque

kafkaesque definition: characterized by surreal distortion and a sense of impending danger

March 12, 2018

Package bombs in Austin appear connected

3 deadly package explosions in Austin appear connected, police say:

https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/12/us/texas-austin-blasts/index.html