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Cake day: July 23rd, 2023

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  • Do yourself a favor and read the novels of Ross Thomas. He was a Washington reporter turned crime novelist. All his books have a strong political basis. Two of his best; “The Fools In Town Are On Our Side,” an ex-CIA hot shot is hired to clean up a small Southern city by making it so corrupt even the pimps will vote for reform; “The Porkchoppers,” a nuts and bolts look at a Union election with characters ranging from White House aides and Washington power mongers to factory line workers.


  • Which begs the question, why fly the Hammer and Sickle at all?

    Politics is a game and if you want to win elections you should learn to play it.

    Nixon hid his anti-Black agenda behind phrases like ‘safe streets’ and ‘the War on Drugs.’

    Do you want to win elections or do you want to lose but be able to boast about how pure your intentions were?











  • No.

    Look at how the system actually works. There are two choices. Both candidates have to compete for all the people who vote. If you sit out the election that doesn’t mean either candidate will try to get your vote; they’ll ignore you and go after the people who do vote.

    Someone else came up with this analogy. It’s like the trolley problem except the there’s a third option. The third choice is to throw the switch to “Neither,” but “Neither” isn’t connected and the trolley kills someone anyway.