Assistant Village Idiot: David Stockman
Maggie's linked this today. Trumped! Why It Happened And What Comes Next. Stockman is viewing Trump from a strictly economic POV, but that includes what his foreign policy might be and how that will affect.
He views Trump much as I do, and he's better-informed about it than I am. Donald's positives are things that might turn out okay but probably won't. His negatives are overstated, but still not good.
I think it was James who suggested that we should always have a None Of The Above option and make it binding! It puts me in mind of the tradition in black churches for the preacher to look over the offering and say "It's not enough! Send it back!"
Posted by Assistant Village Idiot at 5:36 PM
Hmm. I think Stockman maybe more of an outlier than Trump.
I always vote, but I stopped voting for the lesser of the two evils, so I send in a lot of blank ballots. I like to think of them as two "no" votes.
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Assistant Village Idiot: David Stockman
Maggie's linked this today. Trumped! Why It Happened And What Comes Next. Stockman is viewing Trump from a strictly economic POV, but that includes what his foreign policy might be and how that will affect.
He views Trump much as I do, and he's better-informed about it than I am. Donald's positives are things that might turn out okay but probably won't. His negatives are overstated, but still not good.
I think it was James who suggested that we should always have a None Of The Above option and make it binding! It puts me in mind of the tradition in black churches for the preacher to look over the offering and say "It's not enough! Send it back!"
Posted by Assistant Village Idiot at 5:36 PM
Hmm. I think Stockman maybe more of an outlier than Trump.
I always vote, but I stopped voting for the lesser of the two evils, so I send in a lot of blank ballots. I like to think of them as two "no" votes.
Best summary to date of the Trump persecution - From Andy McCarthy. Is There an Obstruction Case against President Trump? Where is the possible crime?
This Law is Unjust - The 
law that the Special Counsel has been using to obtain guilty pleas needs to be changed. It is inhumane in the most literal sense: it is not a law that ...
California Stop - When I went to UCLA some years back, the taxi took us from the airport to UCLA by taking back roads and not spending much time at stop signs. I gather the ...
What I’m Reading: February 2018 - No, there haven’t been 18 school shootings so far this year. Parkland is a tragedy, but no matter what your position, spreading stats like these doesn’t he...
Peripheral Strategies - Pseudoerasmus had an interesting thought about the Cold War: that all the West’s efforts in the Third World were pointless, had little effect on the ultima...
Getting Along In Baseball
No Best-of-AVI
Both Pans of the Balance Scale
Lemurs, Marmots, Wombats
Belloc, Orwell, Fernandez
Different Iceberg
Meat- Eaters
Political Violence Review
Bad Novelist
Another Comment Tell
Genetics and Beyond
The French and Autism
Getting Hitler Right
Text Vs. Graphics
Social Signalling, Virtue Signalling
Unrant
More Wayfinding
Let Us Praise Ordinary Men
Ty Cobb, An Unfairly-Maligned Man