Black Lives Matter

3 Oct 2016

Merchants of doubt

Or, a spoonful of flag helps the mendacity go down Out of all proportion to their share of the general population, four of the eight unarmed people killed by police in September were black. That’s of 127 unarmed people killed so far this year, and 814 “police involved” deaths overall. Gotta love the jargon, too, don’t you think? […]

4 Apr 2016

The dark side

A former Carson supporter told me this morning that she’s with Trump now. Reluctantly, but there it is. “He scares me to death,” she said, “but he’s the only person who has the cajones, you know, the business sense to fix this country.” I asked her whether she’s concerned about the violence at the rallies, and she paused. To […]