by Steve Baker | Oct 17, 2020 | 2020 Elections, Communism, Joe Biden, Marxism, Politics, Rock-n-Roll, Trump
Remember when it was cool to be “anti-establishment?” In the 1960s, antiestablishmentarianism found its footing in the United States as a reaction to the Vietnam War, manifesting itself demonstrably with “Make Love, Not War” hippies, “Turn on, tune in, drop out” LSD...
by Steve Baker | Oct 15, 2020 | 2020 Elections, Cancel Culture, COVID-19, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Politics, Trump
Today is one of those. Yesterday was one. Tomorrow, likely the same. There’s no shortage of news items upon which I want to blather about. In fact, too many. That’s a problem for me. If only there was a giant, planet-killing asteroid hurtling in collision course...
by Steve Baker | Jun 22, 2020 | Cancel Culture, Constitutional Rights, Politics
So What You’re Saying Is . . . The most ridiculously absurd “so-what-you’re-saying-is” comment on my post from Saturday morning? “What I’m most fearful of is the gentleman in question who started this post by saying “no cops better mess with me,...
by Steve Baker | Jun 20, 2020 | COVID-19, Democracy, Mob Rule, Politics, Protests
Feelin’ kinda cute . . . think I’ll go offend some Karens and New Castrati during a long, maskless, open-carry walk. I’m most interested to find a cop who will tell me who ordered the stand down at the State Capital last night, so that protestors could destroy more...
by Steve Baker | Jun 17, 2020 | Defund Police, Politics, Protests
I concluded ‘Part 1’ of this discussion with a 2008 quote from then Senator and presidential candidate Barack Obama: “We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national...
by Steve Baker | Jun 10, 2020 | Defund Police, Politics, Protests
When the first calls for “defunding police” began to emerge from the riots and rubble caused by George Floyd’s death, I perked up with somewhat muted interest. Any good civil libertarian would hope to see more than just feigned reform of our nation’s...
