Today, August 3rd teachers in Knoxville, Tennessee report to work. Despite climbing COVID rates and fears and anxieties of teachers, parents and students, the superintendent of Knox County schools has not backtracked from his plan to reopen schools. Knoxville, a liberal bastion in a red state, has not broken rank from the likes of Governor […]
Killing Time
You can hear a sulking refrain from some corners of the internet lately, usually from armchair revolutionaries, celebrity leftists, or just the “extremely online”: the militant phase of the 2020 uprising against police terror is over—liberal reformers have successfully coopted it. The refrain comes tinged with defeat and a sense that things are already done. […]
Evictions = Death
Yesterday morning, two masked protestors dropped a banner from the roof of the New Orleans First City Court. It read: “Evictions = Death” Locking arms and banging on pots and pans, protestors blocked people, some of them landlords, from entering City Hall which also houses the 1st City and Orleans Parish Civil District courts. Since […]
But what’s the moral of the story?
On Friday, July 10th, it rained hard all day in Brooklyn. Come mid-afternoon, we decided we needed some stuff from the nearby supermarket. Because it was pouring, I took our car. As I left the house, I was preoccupied with keeping my facemask dry. I parked the car, put the mask in my jacket pocket […]
What are we supposed to do in Brooklyn?
“Do Nothing Until You Hear From Me, And You Never Will” – Duke Ellington It is patently obvious that America is screwing up royally on the COVID-19 plague. Essentially the leadership, whether it be de Blasio, Cuomo, or especially Trump himself have profits and business foremost on their minds. Our NY leaders might sound better […]
Politics from a Baby Boomer
In March of this year, a Hard Crackers correspondent took a trip to New Hampshire to visit a friend. It was her first time being in a place that was majority white and she was interested to see the political perspectives of the people there. This following piece was written by an older white woman […]