Among the numerous advantages promised by a well-constructed Union, none deserves to be more accurately developed than its tendency to break and control the violence of faction. James Madison, Federalist Paper #10. Madison described factions (translated by me into modern conversational English) as a group of citizens united and motivated…

I still think it’s fair to say that most Americans don’t have the stomach to round up Jewish people like it’s 1930s Germany. However, there are a lot of white Christians that want to eliminate the Jewish people. …

A Medium writer said Evangelical Christians were only about 4% racist. Really? He demanded statistics from me. An aside: I used to be polite. My liberal friends at the Dems told me that I had to be because Evangelical Christians had deeply religious beliefs. I was skeptical at the time…

Singer/songwriter Jim Post died last week at 82 years old. Nationally, he’s known as the writer, and original performer of the 1968 song Reach Out of the Darkness, often known as Groovy. National reporters are calling Post a one-hit-wonder. They don’t live in Illinois. Post went on to have a…

UPDATE: Skye also likes Italian Beef, dipped, sweet peppers. Likes: Eating. Vomiting. Eating again. Vomiting again. Eating other cats’ food. Vomiting yet again. Vomiting on the small percentage of the floor covered by a rug. Vomiting in the human’s bed. Vomiting in her own bed. Rubbing nose against hand while…

Some headlines struck me: Democrats say they expect a pro-Republican ‘MAGA surge’ in fall elections Trump uses FBI search of his Mar-a-Lago home to solicit campaign donations Trump Support Remains Unmoved by Investigations, Poll Finds The more Trump’s legal woes mount up, the more his fans love him. Why do…

The Florida Racism Tax While entirely unwilling to pay for health care or education, many Americans are very willing to pay the racism tax. Their favorite racist political leaders charge them for the privilege of yucking it up on social media about owning the libs and hurting immigrants or Black…

I am taking a break from the haters today to talk about coffee…er… really, not coffee. I don’t drink coffee anymore and rarely drank coffee in the past because the acids in coffee upset my stomach. I can drink coffee every day for a week or so at a time…

Convince me I’m wrong — I’ve been working on my own idea of government and how to solve the problem of factionalism, and in doing so, I came across the problem of bad faith actors and what to do about them without stifling dialogue and innovation. I came up with some pillars of conduct because…