Why Spin Rules?

Spin Rules is kind of a provocative way to continue a conversation about the news, rhetoric, politics, information and disinformation. When words are out there, they behave a certain way, often inspiring fear, hate, or outrage. Algorithms in social media reward controversial and emotional content. I can't stop that. After all, that's a Spin Rule.

Clowns on an epic scale

Clown car - it’s a great metaphor for the parade of incompetent people and ill-conceived policy ideas that emerged in the first 100 days.

Questions, Lots of Questions

I started writing the other day about the fool's errand of deciphering Donald Trump’s supposed plans or strategies behind the tariff policy. Then I stopped. It's not a strategy, I concluded. We're just seeing a behavioral or operational mode for the president: to

Chaos by design

It's clear that the Trump administration, with accelerated support from Elon Musk and his DOGE bros, are closing parts of the federal government and threatening to debilitate vital agencies and intimidate the judiciary. His actions in these first 100 days seem calculated to overthrow all government processes from

I Stand With Ukraine

Now is the time to make clear that Trump, Vance, and Musk don't speak for all Americans. We stand with Ukraine. We condemn Russian aggression. We cannot trust Putin, and we can't trust Trump to do what's right in Europe. I ordered my house-sized

Treason, Overanalyzed

I’m old enough to remember the early albums of Simon and Garfunkel, and one of their funny masterpieces, “A Simple Desultory Phillipic, or How I Was Robert McNamara’d Into Submission,” from their album, “Bookends,” in April 1968. It struck a comic tone while still getting the point across

Bingo - Trump and Musk Make This Too Easy!

This truly has been the week of Elon Musk, who has proven to be a highly leveraged way for Trump to Flood the Zone, picking a new agency or bundle of federal grants to cancel each week.