Sep 4, 2022 | The Mesa Paper
Texas is already messed up enough on its own, thank you very much. Hardly a month goes by that we don’t read another story of the Texas mess. It would be a laughingstock among states, but these are not laughing matters. One of their two republican senators rebounded...
Jul 22, 2022 | The Mesa Paper
Six Degrees of Separation originated in a 1929 Hungarian short story according to Wikipedia. In almost a century, it has been incorporated into films, games, other literature, music, television, formal mathematics, and psychology. The concept suggests each person is...
Jun 20, 2022 | The Mesa Paper
Hashtag ABG. Anything But Guns. That is the repuglican perspective on the epidemic gun violence continuing to sweep the nation. They blame anything. They offer to investigate anything. They throw money at anything. But they do not address guns as the proximate cause...
May 20, 2022 | The Mesa Paper
Last month originalist Supreme Court Justice Alito wrote (in a draft decision for a presumed Court majority overruling the 49-year-old Roe v. Wade decision), “The Constitution makes no reference to abortion, and no such right is implicitly protected by any...
May 3, 2022 | The Mesa Paper
America has a long history of nonintervention in Eurocentric wars. We are fortunate that bilateral oceans buffer us from immediate threats of conventional warfare. That oceanic moat is less protective in a 21st century airborne or missile attack, but may offer some...
Apr 4, 2022 | The Mesa Paper
Readers understand it can be difficult to write about current events when they change quickly. This month’s topic is particularly fast-moving. The words you read today were written two weeks ago. A decade ago, the Republican nominee for president, Mitt Romney, uttered...
Mar 4, 2022 | The Mesa Paper
Some of the most progressive Democrats have buyer’s remorse, being not entirely happy with their election choice. Even strong Democrats seem happier to have trump OUT of office than to have Biden IN office. We were spoiled by expectations of “Obama, The Sequel.” That...
Jan 17, 2022 | The Mesa Paper
Things are looking glum for progressives in the near and medium future. As I’ve written before, the long-term trends are on our side, e.g., voter diversity, younger voter age, populations shift to cities. But there is plenty of well-placed concern about a return to...
Dec 20, 2021 | The Mesa Paper
Sometimes we see news stories about the activities of Congress written in Dragnet’s Sergeant Joe Friday style, “Just the facts, Ma’am.” Readers (and maybe journalists) might be excused for not connecting dots on complex stories about two main functions of Congress:...
Dec 1, 2021 | The Mesa Paper, Uncategorized
There are serious questions being raised recently by the anti-abortion law in Texas, about which the US Supreme Court heard arguments on a technicality last month. Specifically, whether the federal government may contest a state law that infringes on Constitutional...