I am happy to see my adopted home state continue on a mostly sensible, mostly rational path after yesterday's Primary results. We had one surprise win by a DSA candidate in the race for the Dem. nomination for Marco Rubio's senate seat where Angie Nixon beat the utterly loathsome Alexander Vindman, in one of those races where you forlornly hope that both will somehow lose. The good news is, Ashley Moody will very likely wax Nixon in November. In a surprise to no one, Byron Donalds won the Rep

Hi! I’m Debbie. This is serendipitous because I literally just finished East of Eden and have been dying to talk about it. I’m so excited for this book club. Cathy Ames is one of the most appalling characters I’ve ever read, so I’m especially looking forward to that discussion. Can’t wait to hear what everyone else thinks.

Someone at the FP ought to do an investigatory piece on the Good Law Project. They are attempting to use the tragic death of Jason Arday as an excuse to limit press freedom. Their latest target was the respected Guardian journalist Lanre Bakare (who happens to be black). Bakare at the initial request of Arday spent a year investigating various claims and eventually published his piece debunking many of Arday's claims. The GLP is unsatisfied and published this hit piece (they were forced to upda