I have been blogging online since before there were blogs. I began on a listserve at Marist University called QC-L back in the late 1990s. That evolved into a Blogger account I had at RadicalRuss.net during the George W. Bush Administration. From there, I joined the acclaimed LGBT blog Pam's House Blend as a guest blogger, leading to my accreditation to cover the 2008 Democratic National Convention nominating Barack Obama in Denver. During my career in marijuana legalization, I wrote numerous articles online and in print on the subject. I continue blogging from time to time on various subjects here and as much of my past blogging as I've been able to recover is found here as well.
Republicans run on the concept that government is the problem, government is dysfunctional, government can’t work, and then they get elected and prove it.
With it’s abortion bans, abortion trafficking ban, abortion bounties, faith-healing child abuse exemption and more, Idaho is the state voted Most Likely to Become Gilead in my latest poll of me.
Some weeks the Reaper takes us on a trip into the obscure. This week is definitely not one of those. The Reaper was busy Labor Day Weekend and took from us an All Star, a Dream Weaver, and the King of the Parrotheads, each of whom could be our headliner.
Now that Republicans have succeeded in overturning Roe v. Wade and establishing abortion bans in most of the red states, they’re concerned that being “pro-life” is going to abort their chances of re-election, so they want to re-brand as “pro-baby.”
I often hear folks say Republicans and Democrats are “two wings of the same bird” or “two sides of the same coin.” I demonstrate the statistics and policies to show how only one side of the coin makes us more coin and only one bird is shitting all over minorities.
A Wall Street Journal poll on the personal qualities of Joe Biden vs. Donald Trump has me wondering if anybody paid any attention to 2017–2020?
It’s Labor Day Weekend and the Grim Reaper is ushering in Back to School season by taking the game show host you watched staying home from school. We’ve got backing musicians, producers, and songwriters from some of the biggest acts in the US and UK, as well as international acts from Trinidad, Sweden, Nigeria, and Brazil.
I take a look at the 80- and 90-year-olds in the U.S. House and Senate and whether term limits would be an appropriate amendment to the Constitution.
Alabama and Idaho want to prosecute women who obtain abortions in other states. I explain how that sounds a bit like the case of Dred Scott, the Black man who escaped his enslavement and moved to a free state, only to be returned by a Supreme Court that declared him property.
We hear a lot from Republicans about Making America Great Again, but never in comparison to what? I take a look at a few key statistics of greatness—life expectancy, infant mortality, suicide, income inequality, and poverty—as measured by the Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD) for 37 first-world capitalist democracies.
It’s long past time we liberals attack the Second Amendment the same way conservatives attacked Roe v Wade.
We all have the right to keep and bear arms, but not necessarily to sell them. With the right gun sellers, we could end all racist mass shootings.
I used to be a Twitter power user (22K followers), but since Elon Musk turned it into a Nazi pub, I then migrated to Threads, until Mark Zuckerberg began throttling political speech and forced me off that, Facebook, and Instagram. Then TikTok went and kissed the Felon’s ring, so bye bye, there, too. You can find me primarily now on BlueSky, where I’m verified as @RadicalRuss.com. I’m also on Mastodon, kinda, and YouTube with our live stream and video archive.
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