Today is one of those days where good news gets mitigated by bad news and vice versa. There's a lot of noise in the polls ... the good news seems to be that Biden is doing so well in the Great Lake/Upper Midwest states that Ohio and Iowa are looking increasingly positive for him. The … Continue reading How Desperate?

Today is going to be a first for me, I'm going to cover the same overarching topic on this blog and on my "I'm Think About..." movie analysis site. The matter of comfort zones is closely related to habits. Very often, the habits we adapt lay down the boundaries of the life we are comfortable … Continue reading Comfort Zones

One of my daily habits of late has been to write about the election in this space. It's a way of rationalizing the irrational and putting voice to my greatest fears about what's around the corner, in part to be a warning to people, but mostly to self soothe. I feel a little bit better … Continue reading Habits, Good and Bad

I'll start with the good news -- the Presidential race remains stable and highly Biden favorable at this point. Nate Cohn at the New York Times notes that one of the most substantial national polls showing movement towards Trump recently turned out to be a sampling anomaly (you can read the story for the details, … Continue reading Nightmares

Oh boy, it's getting harder to write about this election. As I mentioned last night, I have a pretty good sense of how this Supreme Court fiasco is going to play out. I guess I'm being a bit too confident that, once the Republicans have a clear Supreme Court majority in place, they won't use … Continue reading No Country for Moderation

There's no need to keep up any suspense about what Trump and the U.S. Senate will do in the weeks ahead. Trump will send up the nominee he thinks will help him most in the election, probably Barbara Lagoa, who they think can help him carry Florida. McConnell will ignore all the threats and will … Continue reading What Will Happen

Most of my attention this week has been focused on trying to send messages of calm instead of feeding what has become an increasingly disturbed and anxious America. My belief is that while we need to be aware of the ways we are being manipulated, we play into the hands of the manipulators if we … Continue reading Some Good News

People forget this now, but back in 2012, there was a major cottage industry on the right that believed that all the polls showing President Obama leading Mitt Romney were skewed. Fox News devoted many hours to "analysis" on how to unskew the polls to find the "real" outcome of the race in the weeks … Continue reading Skewing the Polls

The most remarkable effect of Donald Trump's election in 2016 is how it has distorted our sense of reality and made us question everything that we see and to disbelieve it on a certain level. I think this is partly a very sane reaction to what we have experienced in the past decade in this … Continue reading Hypernormalisation, Internalized

There's a video making the rounds on Twitter today, I won't link to it, that makes a circumstantial case that Donald Trump has sexually abused girls. This comes on the heels of Trump yesterday retweeting a completely outrageous, unsubstantiated claim that Joe Biden is a pedophile. The case against Trump has some merit. He was … Continue reading Playing With Fire