Month: December 2020

New Year’s resolutions and other stuff

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by liberal japonicus Man, I thought that year was never going to leave! Locking the door so it doesn’t come back in. ‘oh, I forgot my phone’. Yeah, right… In Japan, the dream you have on the first night of the new year, if it has Mt. Fuji, a hawk and an eggplant, means you … Read more

attention must be paid

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by russell A couple of things I've stumbled across recently online. Kevin Drum on the (D)'s problems with working class voters. Betty Rivard, social worker in WV, on the (D)'s problems with working class voters. [ed.link corrected (I think), thx Charles WT lj] IMO the critical challenge for (D)'s over the next four years is going … Read more

Brexit

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by wj I see that the U.K. and the E.U. have finally reached a deal on Brexit.* From this side of the pond, it looks like Brexit ends up being all about image and minimally about substance. Consider. U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson says: “We’ve taken back control of our laws and our destiny. We’ve … Read more

Holiday Open Thread

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by wj Merry Christmas to those of you celebrating it. A belated Happy Hanukkah to those celebrating that. And a Happy New Year to all. (I’d say 2020 would be an easy act to follow, but I’m afraid that might be tempting fate.)

Over-Generalizing

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by wj There have been a number of analyses of the 2020 election which comment on the fact that pre-election analyses tended to treat Latino voters as a group. When, in fact, there are a large number of groups there, with quite different world-views, experiences, etc. You’ve got descendants of Cubans who fled Fidel Castro. … Read more