Blog Credo

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Monday, September 10, 2018

Worth Noting

North Carolina is about to flood.

The Rio Grande is disappearing.

When we catalog the crimes of this era, perhaps Trump's rampant self-dealing and corruption will be but a footnote to the crime of inaction in the face of climate change.  More accurately, that crime will be laid at the feet not simply of Trump, but the whole rotting corpse of the GOP.

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