CPAC Day 1
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By John Griswold
The Night Before CPAC
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The Common Reader at CPAC in Dallas
CPAC in Dallas, 2022, unites Donald Trump and a cast of MAGA characters for a big show in the year of both January 6 and the midterm elections.
Ol’ Blue Rides Again
Photo by John Griswold I suppose I should have known how appealing an old truck would be to some other people by my own reaction when I saw it at the curb. Ol’ Blue, an F-150 from the mid-1990s, was sitting with a For Sale sign in its…
The Great Gift of Time (and Its Proxies)
Photo courtesy National Park Service, via Wikimedia Commons Some of my earliest memories, I realize now, are actually of time. The invisible wind making a wave that approached in the prairie grass; dappled light under the tree that changed with the incidence of the sun. The fatigue of…
Of Being Slighted
controlling others by ruining their possessions
Let’s Play Two
Two young men watch a Cardinals game at Busch Stadium in St. Louis, summer 2022
Can Wildlife Live Among the Strip Malls in a Booming Metro Area?
Given the loss of the Foucek farm, which would have helped serve all these goals, a funny but familiar feeling rises—that as priorities change something worse can always happen to the landscape. Are these towns a good model for conservation in American suburbs in the age of sprawl? Or are they creating a situation that fosters more conflict and justifies more development?
Political-Party Consumerism
marketing to political affiliation
Roe Falls, and Missouri Bans Most Abortions
Missouri became the first U.S. state to ban abortion after Friday’s Supreme Court ruling overthrew Roe v. Wade.
Copi: “If You Can’t Beat ‘Em, Eat ‘Em”
Asian Carp have become a serious problem in midwestern rivers and lakes. They overpopulate; drive out native species; decimate food supplies such as plankton, algae, and endangered mollusks; and, as you have probably seen in videos, often swarm the surface and fly through the air, hitting boaters.
Second Day of January 6th Hearings More Propulsive
Former White House Political Director Bill Stepien, from the January 6th hearings, courtesy US House The second day of hearings by the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol was held yesterday. The focus of its argument was tighter than on…