Can't we just eliminate all statues and monuments? Can anyone provide a valid reason to celebrate an individual person or event on property owned by the people? George Washington owned slaves. The Iwo Jima Memorial celebrates those that used nuclear weapons on innocent civilians and wrongfully imprisoned American citizens of Asian descent. Martin ( Read more... )

Destabilize; dismantle; de-fund; disestablish ( Read more... )

Riot Control Bees?

A Wisconsin man brought a dozen crates of bees to a protest and threatened to release them if the local protest descended into riots.

Greg Hoeft of Janesville brought 12 crates of bees towed on a trailer to a parking lot nearby the protest, which had about 100 people on Saturday.

“The riot control bees are in their holding yard ( Read more... )

I had a long talk with one of my progressive friends. I've concluded that my conservative-leaning Libertarianism is outdated, as is our status quo government. We need real political change. We need real institutional change. And the kind of change we need does not come quietly ( Read more... )

There were a couple small and unruly demonstrations about the Floyd murder -- and make no mistake: this was murder -- this weekend, but they seemed to have less to do with social justice than with an opportunity to loot and break stuff. I was unimpressed with the "protestors" actions and was, as usual, unimpressed with the local gendarme's joyful ( Read more... )

Got a revolution ( Read more... )

Two of the neighborhood carnicerias are forever closed ( Read more... )

At 5:15 this morning there was a young black man in the bushes next to my work truck. My first thought was that it was my next door neighbor's son retrieving Brutus, his mother's little dog that races into our yard as often as Cerberus dashes into theirs*. When I opened the door to say hello and catch up on pleasantries, the man startled like a ( Read more... )

Today is day 35 of the town’s work from home order. I’ve been able to stay home more than Amazon Engineer or Assistant Town Engineer, but less than the people working from the wastewater plant. I’ve stayed home all day on four work days. The The Streets and Wastewater crews are business as usual, and I go in only as required to deal with traffic ( Read more... )

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