I'm a long-time socialist and activist, but new to the blogging world. I hope to bring a different perspective on politics, sports, culture, and Marxism. Besides blogging, I also leave plenty of time for swimming, hiking, ESPN, music, reading, drinking good beer, and, not least, my family and friends. I wish I could play basketball, but my knees ruled out that possibility long ago.
While I currently reside in New York, my politically formative years were spent in Portland, Me. and Detroit during the 1970s and 1980s. I graduated from St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia (where I played basketball) and received a MA in economics from the University of Connecticut.
I was the national chairperson of the Communist Party, USA from 2000 until 2014 when I stepped down at the convention. In 2016 I resigned from the Communist Party two years later. We were no longer on the same page.
“We do have to defeat Trump, but we don’t have to do it in the way the Democratic establishment wants us to,” Becky Bond, senior Sanders advisor, told People’s Summit conference-goers, according to Newsweek. I have a problem with this…
Watching ESPN coverage of Pat Summitt, who died last night at 64. Summitt, if you don’t know, was the legendary and beloved women’s basketball coach at the University of Tennessee. It is hard to overstate her impact on women’s basketball…
UK voters decided to leave the European Union yesterday. From this side of the pond, things don’t look good. The right wing drove what turned into a very ugly process and initiative is in its hands in the vote’s wake.…
The visit to Orlando by President Obama and Vice President Biden surely gave some comfort to the people of that city, first and foremost, to the grieving families and the gay community. But only the passage of time and sustained…
