Because it is winter break and I have some free time before the holiday onslaught of family and food begins, I was tooling around Datawrapper and saw they have county maps for North Dakota (and all 50 states actually). This is pretty cool so I made two maps of the 2012 and 2018 ND Senate races. […]
When I was a kid I distinctly remember my dad having a conversation with his best friend about the “buffalo commons.” I don’t remember the particulars of that conversation but I do remember the general tone of the conversation and I would say that it wasn’t supportive of the idea. The idea of a buffalo […]
One of my hesitations about moving to Texas (in addition to the weather) was that I wasn’t crazy about living in a state of the old Confederacy. Although the Civil War was a long time ago the stench of treason in defense of slavery still lingers in places like Texas. Also living in Texas has […]
Today the IPCC came out with “A Special Report on the Impacts of Global Warming a 1.5C” Essentially, it outlines how bad things will get as the Earth’s climate increases to 1.5 degrees celsius above pre-industrial levels but also how much worse things will get if the Earth warms to 2 degrees celsius above […]
The ascension of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court is a terrible thing for the country but it is clarifying. America is in the midst of a legitimacy crisis. The Republican Party has gone all in on white nationalism (in addition to ensuring the rich pay nothing in taxes and American is continually engaged in […]
International order is in flux. With the U.S. governed by the racist grifter Donald Trump and a complicit in his crimes Republican party American leadership of the liberal international order is in serious question. So what comes next? It’s an interesting time in that there is a space for a more virtuous and left wing […]
Texas, as everyone knows and everyone here likes to state over and over again, is a big state. This is both in terms of population and geography. Because of these two factors Texas also resettles a lot of refugees. I think people from outside the state are still surprised at the ethnic diversity of places […]
