Author: craigcrawford

Trail Mix Host. Lapsed journalist, author & retired pundit happily promoting nothing but the truth for Social Security checks.

Our New Look

We’re trying out a new comment system that’s more up to date and less creaky than what we were using. Our favorite tools, such as image uploading and editing are still available, but different.

For uploading see the icon on the bottom right of the comment box…

This system allows editing of your comments without a time limit. It pops up when you hover your cursor over the bottom right corner of the posted comment.

Deleting your comment is different. At the beginning of comments at the top of the page to the right of the number of comments there’s an icon for “My comment and settings”. Click that and you’ll your see recent comments listed in case you want to delete any.

The floating green button on the left is where you can click to add your comment wherever you are on the page (it also displays the number of comments).

The features aren’t as intuitive as I’d like but this seems to be a more smoothly operating comment platform than the collection of outdated tools I had cobbled together.

Please add your thoughts, questions, suggestions in comments. Happy Trails!

Fascist Media Capture Is Happening

This is real. We are witnessing anticipatory obedience by corporations to a fascist regime similar to what happened in Hungary and elsewhere.

The Washington Post’s editorial cartoonist quits after editors spike cartoon mocking tech billionaires (including Post owner Jeff Bezos) for sucking up to Trump

Ann Telnaes: “As an editorial cartoonist, my job is to hold powerful people and institutions accountable. For the first time, my editor prevented me from doing that critical job. So I have decided to leave the Post. I doubt my decision will cause much of a stir and that it will be dismissed because I’m just a cartoonist. But I will not stop holding truth to power through my cartooning, because as they say, “Democracy dies in darkness”. Read More

Ann Telnaes


How Carter Reelection Was Sabotaged

This needs to be remembered:

NYT’s Peter Baker got as close as anyone I’ve seen to what happened to Jimmy Carter’s 1980 reelection campaign.

In article last year Baker reported on the Reagan team’s message to Iran:

“Don’t release the hostages before the election. Mr. Reagan will win and give you a better deal”

— New York Times free link