The Daily Bucket: Saving the Redwoods #3; We Knocked off a Gas Station.

An Oregon developer of a proposed gas station next to a creek and wetlands has withdrawn his application. In short:  Victory! Withdrawn App, how sweet the sound, Saving trees … … Read More

Save the Redwoods, Part II: When Billy Heron helped unite a community

It’s especially hard to organize folks these days. You can’t call a meeting.   It’s tough to talk and listen with masks on. Yet suburban folks west of Portland Oregon are … Read More

Steve Schmidt's most effective takedown of Donald Trump to date

Steve Schmidt is a regular critic of the president. But today he strung an all-encompassing narrative that highlights his incompetence and danger. Steve Schmidt did not hold back Watch the entire … Read More

Things really important to me

First an apology. My post yesterday on my decision to vote for Warren (which I did at about 9:45 AM) and to contribute to her campaign ($100 online) was my … Read More

Brand That Nickname of “Grim Reaper” To Moscow Mitch Too.

<I know I took a break from blogging, but there is a critical life threatening intersection between gun violence, racism, and Republican politics that compelled me to get off the … Read More

American woman's viral Twitter thread exposes the 'nightmare' of European-style socialized medicine

Oh, did I say nightmare? I meant the opposite of that. People who oppose adopting universal health care in the U.S. generally say that we have the greatest health care … Read More

Why I have not been blogging

in case anyone cares. There are a variety of reasons. Let’s start with the more mundane, or rather, those involved with my personal life. This has been a very difficult … Read More

SCOTUS Blog's Tom Goldstein's Motion to Install Rosenstein as AG. “This is a constitutional crisis.”

(Thomas C. Goldstein, known as simply Tom Goldstein, is an American attorney known for his advocacy before and blogging about the Supreme Court. Over the past fifteen years, Goldstein has served as … Read More

A true social justice warrior has passed. Godspeed, Tony Trupiano.

Yesterday morning I got a text from my friend Stephanie White that said, simply, “Sad news about Tony.” I hadn’t heard any news but I knew which “Tony” she meant. … Read More