Politics

by liberal japonicus I am trying, unsuccessfully, to avoid overdosing on all the election post-mortems. The most recent was this New Yorker interview with Pete Buttigeig, which is where the title is from and made me laugh out loud in the gym. Here’s the exchange: Pete Buttigeig: And the fact that he deep down knows … Read more

by liberal japonicus Thought we needed an (h)open thread about the midterms. I did like the Guardian graphics, which are here. Comments, observations, and praises to whatever deity manages karmic retribution.

by liberal japonicus The other open thread is burbling along, but it’s been a bit, so I’d put this one up. Some random thoughts. The reportage is that the Alaska Doppleganger was recruited by the Democrats. Bad Democrats, bad democrats! (Said in the tone one says to a dog that has chewed up a rug) … Read more

by liberal japonicus This interview of Michael Lewis, from the Rest is Politics duo, was truely jawdropping to me. From the transcript, starting here Where Russell Vought walks into my story is that when I was casting the role of like the human embodiment of the American science project, I cast a man named Francis … Read more

by liberal japonicus I’m not planning on travelling anytime soon, but when I went to grad school, I chose to study Thai rather than Vietnamese because I thought that travelling to Thailand would not be as awkward as travelling to Vietnam. This was a big mistake in a number of ways. One was because I … Read more

by liberal japonicus Folks have been talking about this, so I thought I would toss in the NYT Daily on the DSA.

by liberal japonicus I guess the big news is from the Michiganders and Abdul El-Sayed. I like Jamelle Bouie’s encapsulation of this, which is Vote Blue No Matter Who. If anyone has a more granular view of the race, please drop it in the thread and feel free to write about anything else.