Wash Park Prophet

* Fraternity gang rape was a widely acknowledge problem thirty-five years ago when I was in college. Apparently, nothing has changed. * Peop...

We need something like a war crimes tribunal when Trump is gone.  To try the ICE agents (almost all of them) who broke the law, the military...

The automatic feeds of posts from my blogs seem to have stopped working sometime around September 8, 2026 (about 17 days ago), not just betw...

 

This post was originally an answer at Law Stack Exchange that I wrote . The fact that it is quoted from that source is not indicated for eas...

  From Bernstein's Mass.

A recent headline noted that the Fed is considering raising interest rates to fight inflation. Spoiler alert: It won't work. Usually, in...

  This narrative is common and it's mostly wrong. First, it vastly overestimates the electoral strength of progressive Democrats in part...

If you lie once, you have to keep lying to protect that first lie. Eventually, the lies will pile up. - Please Excuse My Younger Brothers (E...

The MAGA Republican Party is horrifically bad. Weimer Republic Nazi party bad. Cambodian Communist party bad. Iranian government of 1979 bad...

Executive Summary Fossil fuels account for 40% of ocean freight, 51% of train freight, and 56% of barge freight.  New technologies in renewa...

Trump has claimed that he can rename Lake Ontario unilaterally with an Executive Order. Google Maps is obeying it. But, of course, like so m...

The U.S. law of standing basically states that even if the government or a government official is blatantly violating a law that benefits ev...

One of the most distinctive features of Trump 2.0 has been the breakdown of the rule of law. The administration has routinely ignored the la...

Christmas Easter Christianity Baseball Dogs Sitcoms Peanut butter Olives Olive oil Grass lawns Whiskey Gin Muscle cars Audience participatio...

If this kingdom is led by the corrupt, it will be doomed to fall. - The Frontier Lord Begins With Zero Subjects (2026) (Episode 7).

Jared Henderson has a thoughtful Substack post about literacy statistics and the "literacy crisis." Many statistics thrown around...

There will be up to 15  state ballot issues in November in Colorado. Citizen initiatives that have qualified for the ballot propose changes ...

About 55% of the people in the world worship the god of the Jews, Christians, and Muslims (a little less than 30% are Christian, a little le...

  FWIW, the United Kingdom's homicide rates ( 1.17 per 100,000 ) are much lower than the U.S., with gun death rates that are some of th...