December 29, 2020 Pearl River Good news! The still President, or as some call him the President-Unelect Donald Trump, went to sign his golf card in Florida and toady South Carolina Senator Lindsay Graham slipped the latest $900 billion coronavirus relief bill to him instead, and, wham-bam, relief finally came. Well, maybe not exactly like …
Black Lives Matter, the Tides Foundation, and the Future
December 28, 2020 Pearl River The Black Lives Matter movement erupted after the killing of George Floyd, as demonstrations, perhaps as many as 8500, occurred throughout the country and the world. BLM, prior to the Minneapolis uprising, was a loosely-knit, unstructured, network of local chapters with a somewhat leaderless structure nationally. In many ways that …
The New Media “Left”
December 27, 2020 Pearl River Maybe I’m wrong, but over the Trump years, as the media has groped around trying to figure out a way to characterize him and his supporters, the old poles of liberal, moderate, and conservative seemed to have disappeared in the polarity of right and left. My hunch is that among …