And the Case for a Second Reconstruction Before we jump too quickly to bandaging over the gaping, infected wound that afflicts the US body politic in the name of “healing,” we need to think long and hard about what this kind of cheap grace has brought us in the past. …

We Are Still Not out of the Woods As of today, November 11, 2020, the vote count proceeds calmly and in an orderly fashion. On other fronts, things are not going well and may escalate quickly. I hope I’m wrong. Just to check my gut instincts against expert predictions and emerging facts, I re-read and analyzed the findings…

Can we just get over all the ridiculous pontificating about how judges have “judicial philosophies” like “originalism” or “the Constitution as a living document,” that they rely on these supposedly consistent and coherent standards to deliver verdicts and opinions determined by “established law and precedent,” and that this process results…

To fully understand why policing is so persistently violent and resists every attempt to reform it, we have to understand what the real mission of policing is. It is NOT to solve crime or keep anyone but the ruling class safe. If that were their job, crime rates would have…

It’s not what you’ve been told. If you are uncomfortable with the demand to defund or abolish the police, if it makes you want to rewrite, reframe, rethink, reimagine or otherwise white-splain it for yourself or others, it may be because you have a mistaken notion about why the police exist. So I’m just gonna just…

So you don’t think you can sell “Defund the Police” to your right wing friends. Really? Come on, get creative. We’ve got all their favorite villains, a huge, expensive, ineffective, TAX FUNDED, out of control GUMMINT AGENCY that can’t be reined in because a powerful PUBLIC EMPLOYEES UNION has a…

Here’s a thought experiment that attempts to explain why throwing more money at “reforms” won’t work and the only answer is to stop wasting money on a system that is designed to be impervious to reform. Recruit the best, pay them well and set high standards. Imagine that we replaced…

Been hearing calls to Disarm, Defund and Disband the police but wonder what it means and what would replace it? …

No-Sew Facemask from a T-Shirt! I have removed this story because single-layer t-shirt masks are not as safe as the commercial masks now available, or even double-layer cotton masks. Thanks to everyone who visited my blog to read this and view the videos, and especially to all the volunteer maskmakers…