The Hungry Pie Lover: An Allegory
A fictional account of a restaurant owner who thinks much of his menu and disparages his competition. The tale is related through the person of a potential customer.
Washington Waging War on West Virginia?
Criticism of Governor Jim Justice blaming the Biden Administration for delays in highway construction in West Virginia.
The Older Generation Regards The Younger Generation
A thought exercise about where the differences between older and younger generations lie, with a focus on the situation in red state West Virginia.
MAGA: An Honest Analysis of the Acronym
An analysis (from a leftist perspective) of what the letters in the MAGA acronym stand for.
My Morals Are Stronger Than Your Morals
The difference between conservatives and progressives or liberal and their electoral success or not is complicated. Lakoff attributes this to messaging and Haidt to moral differences.
Tangled Trees, Tangled Truths
Thinking about how our divided politics, which is so mixed up and tangled, that it looks similar to the kind of tangling that physicists and biologists deal with.