Marc MerlinA low-cost wireless solution to help get you through those pesky internet outagesIf you’re like me, what once were tolerable home internet outages now seem to last forever. My basic online needs aren’t great — reading…Nov 1, 2020Nov 1, 2020
Marc MerlinLindsay Ellis’s Axiom’s End, a smart and thought-provoking first-contact thrill rideI am a big fan of Lindsay Ellis and her video essays analyzing film and literature. I can’t click “play” quickly enough when one of them…Sep 3, 2020Sep 3, 2020
Marc MerlinTickling the tail of the COVID-19 dragonIn trying to come up with a metaphor that captures the ill-considered approach used by many Republican governors to address the COVID-19…Jun 28, 2020Jun 28, 2020
Marc MerlinIt’s time for us to have “the talk” about COVID-19 and the need to stay the social distancing…I think it’s time we sat down and had “the talk,” the facts of life talk, that is. In this case, it’s going to be the facts of life under…Apr 15, 2020Apr 15, 2020
Marc MerlinIt’s time to submit your Official Georgia Absentee Ballot ApplicationIf you’re a registered voter in Georgia, you should receive an Application for Official Absentee Ballot in the mail by Friday, April 10…Apr 6, 2020Apr 6, 2020
Marc MerlinSome hygiene tips for Facebook posting in the era of COVID-19If your Facebook newsfeed is anything like mine these days, it is filled with COVID-19-related posts, some of them good, some of them bad…Mar 21, 2020Mar 21, 2020
Marc MerlinEmbracing impeachment rope-a-dope: the critical importance of pursuing Congressional subpoenas in…Holding the American electorate in low regard is hardly something new. Quoting journalist and social commentator H.L. Mencken from a 1926…Nov 23, 2019Nov 23, 2019
Marc Merlin“A Warning” — just say no to more Trump pornAlthough “A Warning” by an unnamed a senior Trump administration official won’t be released until November 19, advance copies are out and…Nov 8, 2019Nov 8, 2019
Marc MerlinIt’s all in the timing: a tale of two detonationsYou might think that this double-barrelled cannon sitting next to City Hall in Athens, Georgia could be prop in some sort of misguided…May 19, 2019May 19, 2019
Marc MerlinOn Trump’s running out the clock on Congressional subpoenas: why the Supreme Court is of little…As I have discussed elsewhere, one constructive side-effect of the Donald Trump administration and its abundance of deliberately…May 14, 2019May 14, 2019