January 18, 2021 Pearl River The post-mortem on the Capitol mob scene has been bizarrely interesting from an organizing perspective. A lot of it has been more about name-calling than analysis. This motley crowd is now seen as rioters, (maybe?), insurrectionists (really?), seditionists (huh?), and more. …
Boebert’s Colorado 3rd District isn’t that Safe
January 17, 2021 Pearl River Newly-minted Congresswoman sees herself as the right’s answer to Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez and the so-called Squad of progressive women in Congress. She unseated five-term Republican representative Scott Tipton who came into office on the Tea Party wave, and she was surfing in with the Trump team, despite Trump’s endorsement of …
Smells
January 16, 2021 Pearl River How can anyone resist reading a book about the sense of smell? Ok, maybe it’s easier for some than others, but these days somehow it hit a nerve when I read about it, so away to Kindle I went. As it happens, the publisher reached out about whether I would …