Politics - SB Hopper

I need glasses to find my glasses

On most days my desk looks like a bowl of cable spaghetti. The cables are all black. USB this, lightning bolt that. My reading glasses are black. Black chameleons. I set them down and they become one with the cables. Shopping list - white or Ferrari red glasses. I'm taking

Biden Sanders Super Tuesday

Was your Tuesday super?

Warning – a random post on some political musings. I don’t know much about politics, but it looks like it’s coming down to Biden or Sanders vs. Trump. Three childhood friends of mine and I discuss the news in a text thread. Lately I’ve been getting a little

Books

On the Streets: Clinton on (the other) Capitol Hill

Hillary Clinton received an enthusiastic, warm welcome (and good weather) on 12 December 2017 at Seattle’s Elliott Bay Book Company [http://www.elliottbaybook.com]. Clinton was in town to promote her book What Happened, a look back at the 2016 election. I walked over to Elliott Bay Book Company

Consuming Journalism

Consuming Journalism: References to possible wrongdoing require proper explanations and attention

On 27 May 2017, Politico [http://www.politico.com] ran an article focusing on Jared Kushner’s alleged attempts to establish back-channel communications with Russia [http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/27/jared-kushner-russia-backchannel-protocol-238888] . The opening sentence of the article states that the attempts “would have been viewed as not

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Ilan Pappé at Town Hall Seattle: Prospects for Peace in Israel-Palestine

On Monday 22 May 2017, historian Ilan Pappé [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilan_Pappé] spoke at Town Hall Seattle in a forum titled “Prospects for Peace in Israel-Palestine [https://townhallseattle.org/event/ilan-pappe/].” Mr. Pappé, an outspoken critic of Israeli policies towards Palestine and the Palestinians, spoke about the

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Tear Sheet: KUOW radio program

On 16 March 2017, John O’Brien at Seattle’s KUOW ran an audio piece about Town Hall Seattle’s [https://townhallseattle.org] “Finding Common Ground in America”, which featured authors Matt Taibbi and Joel Berg. Mr. O’Brien asked if he could use two of my photos from the

Activism

The Scientific Method

On Saturday 22 April 2017, people gathered in Capitol Hill’s Cal Anderson Park to participate in Seattle’s March for Science. According to the Seattle Times, the crowd numbered in the thousands [http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/science/seattle-march-for-science-draws-thousands-on-earth-day-including-a-nobel-prize-winner/] . As could be expected, the signs were clever and represented

Books

Finding Common Ground in America

On 2 March 2017, authors Joel Berg and Matt Taibbi, both experts on American politics, took the stage at Town Hall Seattle [https://townhallseattle.org] to discuss their most recent books. They then sat down for a joint Q&A session. The event, Finding Common Ground in America [https://townhallseattle.

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Resist

I spent a good portion of the last twenty years overseas. Even when I was back in the States, it felt transient and temporary. I did not follow domestic issues closely. I was in the Middle East when 9/11 happened, spending the night on Mount Sinai and freezing because