2026 is a particularly ugly election year. While negative campaigning has become far too common in US elections, it has reached a fever pitch with disinformation far outweighing factual data in the flood of noise blanketing the internet where most people get their news and information these days. That makes it ever more challenging to honestly evaluate our ballots for each election. Fortunately, at least in California, there are a number of fact-based sites where voters can research the propositions and the candidates honestly. Continue reading
Congress
6 January 2021: An American Story
On 6 January 2021, the story unfolding in real time was more confounding and disturbing than any work of fiction I have ever read, and I couldn’t look away. Sadly, it also wasn’t unexpected based on the sitting president’s behavior throughout his term of office and before that as a private citizen. This administration was the runaway train that would inevitably crash where it did on this day.

