Views from Crestmont Drive

• My daily routine;
• How Trump would be king and end the rule of law in America, and how this is understandable given base human nature;
• Paul Krugman on the existential threat of climate change, that conservatives deny or simply do not understand;
• How the Supreme Court is driving a return to patriarchy, and the conservative drive to preserve the best traditions of the past, which turn out to be tribalistic, pre-Enlightenment, ideas.

Most of my days are split into three segments. In the mornings after breakfast I spend up to an hour checking some two dozen websites that I check virtually every day, from Slate and Salon and The Atlantic, to Joe.My.God and Jerry Coyne and Big Think, to OnlySky and Right Wing Watch and File 770, plus Facebook and Gmail. From them I collect notable items as links in a running Word document (used to be in Wordpad).

Then I go about my day, working sfadb.com or reading books or writing bits of my own book, or going on walks or hikes and making trips to the supermarket. The parts about books concern issues more abstruse and intellectual and fundamental than the scary vagaries of politics.

And near the end of the day I return to the links I collected in the morning, review them and decide what to write up in the day’s blog post. Most of the time, lately, it’s about the current American political scene. Not every day. But again today.

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