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

Friday, December 20, 2019

In A Normal World...

There have been two "deep dive" stories that have come out recently.  The first was a brutal expose in the Washington Post about Afghanistan, and how administration and Defense Department officials lied about the war.  The second just came out in the Times, about how vulnerable our private data is to private companies. And let's add climate change to the docket, too.

All of these stories - and many more - are buried under the avalanche of outrage and bullshit that is a day in Trumpistan. His constant ability to violate basic norms means that important stories go reported, but unnoticed. 

Trump has cost us four years of human progress.

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