Nairobi The Secret Service, FBI, and most Americans that still resist various strains of conspiracy theories remain mystified about the motivations of the young, twenty-year-old shooter in Pennsylvania who attempted to assassinate former President Trump at a rally in the state. He killed and was killed, so the odds are that we will never …
Category: Politics
Project 2025 is Scary Bad
Pearl River My first introduction to Project 2025 was an email thrown over the 21st century techno-transom. I didn’t recognize the sender at first, but he is a long-time singer in the American country tradition for the last 50 years, specializing in what he calls a “arklassippi” music in a mash-up for the three mid-south …
Old People Power
Pearl River Old people are suddenly news. Not just because so many old people are holding onto power in one country after another like the US, China, and India, even as younger men and women take charge elsewhere, but because in places like France, the United Kingdom, and the United States, the oldies have huge …