Conventional Wisdom, or What Passes for It

The conventional wisdom, once the dust from the 2020 elections settled, was that a 50-50 Senate, with just the vice president’s vote to break ties in the Democrat’s favor, wouldn’t be able to dump the filibuster, nor pass progressive legislation.

Fuzzy Logic (Updated 5/10/21)

This is a post from 2009. In it, I complained about the blurring of license plates and brand names in commercial videos and television programs, presumably done at the behest of corporate lawyers anxious to avoid lawsuits. Since then it’s grown worse, to the point where non-commercial photographers and video producers — people like you […]

If This, Then That

Ah, but you see, if there is Trumpism, there must be Bidenism. For balance! If Trumpites commit crimes and try to overturn elections, there must be Bidenites doing the same thing on the other side! Because both sides!

Bitter Fruit

We’re all assholes in real life. Thank goodness some of us are capable of producing great art in spite of it.