Mike WeisserSo Now We Will Have theTrump-Biden Debate.So, now we finally have the news which everybody’s been waiting for, which is that Orange Shithead and Joe will come together for two…·4 min read·18 hours ago--1--1
Mike WeisserHow Come This Campus Demonstration Was Shut Down?Last weekend, the cops came onto the University of Massachusetts campus in Amherst, arrested 133 demonstrators and ended the encampment…·4 min read·20 hours ago----
Mike WeisserWill Donald Trump Exploit White Rural Rage?Want the latest riff on how and why Orange Shithead (a.k.a., Donald Trump) is such a great ‘threat’ to democracy? Try a new book by an…·5 min read·1 day ago----
Mike WeisserIs Social Media Anything New?It’s now more than fifty years since Marshall McLuhan published his study, The Medium is the Message, about television as a new way to…·5 min read·1 day ago--1--1
Mike WeisserCan ‘Teflon Don’ Trump Beat the Rap?Remember a New York gangster named John Gotti? He was the head of the Gambino crime family who beat both New York State and the Feds in…·4 min read·2 days ago----
Mike WeisserThink That Racism Has Disappeared? Think Again.All this talk about how white men used to be in charge and are now losing out to non-whites may be the basic campaign narrative of Donald…·3 min read·2 days ago--1--1
Mike WeisserDo The Current Political Polls Mean All That Much?One of the digital media outlets just ran a story about recent polls which show Joe slightly behind Trump but seemingly not in the…·4 min read·3 days ago--5--5
Mike WeisserCan Trump Drain the ‘Swamp?’I was born in Washington, D.C. in 1944 and we lived in the Northwest part of the city from 1950 until Dad took a job in New York, and we…·4 min read·3 days ago--4--4
Mike WeisserTrump Isn’t Just a Former President. He’s Also a Dumb Schmuck.I’ve been listening to ‘Is Trump a Fascist?’ argument for the past couple of years and contributing my own comments to the debate as well.·4 min read·4 days ago--10--10
Mike WeisserAre ‘Violent’ Campus Demonstrations So Violent?There’s a virtual research organization out there called Armed Conflict Location and Events Data (ACLED) which I have consulted multiple…·3 min read·5 days ago--1--1