Sitemap - 2024 - Kibitzing with Lincoln

Rickey Henderson's Death Is a Huge Loss for Oakland and for Baseball

San Francisco Recall Elections Could Become a Bigger Problem

Trump's Attacks on the Media Continue

Americans Should Be Inspired by Georgia

Dave Parker and the Hall of Fame

Trump May Just Do What He Said He Would

More Possible Recalls in San Francisco

The Golden At-Bat Is a Dreadful Idea

Two Debate Moments that Defined Trump and the Republican Party

The Truths That Facilitate Trump's Lies

Trump, Ukraine and Europe

The New National Narrative About San Francisco

Enough with the Pointless Election Post-Mortems Already

A Closer Look at Some Election Numbers

Trump's New Cabinet

The 2024 Election in San Francisco

America Chooses Fascism

Election Night Live Kibitzing

Truth, Plausbility and the Rise of MAGA Fascism

The Post's Non-Endorsement and the Crisis of Elite Institutions

Old and New Money in San Francisco Politics

The Georgian Elections

The Election and the Possibility of Democracy

There's Nothing Like the Yankees and Dodgers in the World Series

Antisemitic Images and the New York Times

Trump's Post-Election Plans

Mark Farrell's Ethical Problems Aren't Going Away

Those Yankees-Royals Series

Nobody Cares About Your Opinion of Zionism

Goodbye to Charlie Hustle

The Eric Adams Indictment

The Collective Shoulder Shrug Following the Assassination Attempts

History and Forgetting in San Francisco

Shohei Ohtani Makes Baseball Look Easy

The Punditry and the Policy Detail Fetish

The Mayoral Election and the Purpose of San Francisco

Cheering Our Team and Watching the Debate

Looking Back on Madison Bumgarner

Misunderstanding the Chinese Vote in San Francisco

Hamas Does Not Want a Ceasefire Either

Judge and Soto in Some Historical Perspective

The Speech We Did Not Hear at the Democratic Convention

The Harris Housing Plan

Kamala Harris and Generational Change

Cornel West Off the Ballot in Michigan

Sometimes a Billboard Is Not Just a Billboard

For Both DeSantis and Newsom, Their Moment Has Come and Gone

Shapiro, Walz and Absurd Charges of Antisemitism

Walz Will Help the Ticket

Beyond Homelessness, Housing and Crime in San Francisco

Ruby the Pizza Guy

Trade Deadline Blues

A Party and a Cult

The Emerging Coalitions in the Mayor's Race

The Democrats’ Bernie Carbo Moment

Republican Overconfidence

San Francisco's Mayoral Candidates Differ on More than Style

Notes on the Assassination Attempt

American Brezhnev

Farhan Zaidi Faces Another Trade Deadline

The Mayor's Race at Midsummer

July 1, 2024 Is Worse than January 6, 2021

Let's At Least Think This Through First

The Greatest Living Ballplayers

The Destructive Discourse Around the War in Gaza

Mark Farrell's Creative Campaign Financing

Willie Mays and Baseball History

Another Tool/Toy for Comparing Ballplayers

The First Mayoral Debate

Reminding Voters Democracy Is on the Ballot Is Not Enough

Josh Gibson, Ty Cobb and Rethinking Baseball Statistics

Contradictions and Policy in San Francisco

The Conviction the Election and Democracy

The Platonic Ideal of Baseball

Nikki Haley's Extremely Predictable Endorsement of Trump

The First Mayoral Forum

Blaming Netanyahu Is Too Easy

Debate Debacle in San Francisco

After the Georgian Dream

The Free Palestine Protests and the Election

Tbilisi and the 2024 Elections

Outside Agitators on Campus

Blame and Mayoral Politics in San Francisco

Free Palestine Protests Continue at Columbia

Regardless of the Outcome, This Trial Is a Defeat for Trump

Encampments, Police and Antisemitism at Columbia

Escalation Between Iran and Israel

Rank Choice Voting in the San Francisco Mayor's Race.

OJ Simpson, Joe DiMaggio and the 30 Stockton

Israel's Crises-Israel's Future

Peskin Announces for Mayor

Mets to Retire Dwight Gooden's Number

Israel and the Evolving Definition of Genocide

Breed's Veto Overturned

MAGA Won't Just Fade Away Even if Trump Loses

Shohei's Scandal and Pete Rose's Banishment

Speculators and Affordability, not NIMBY and YIMBY

Aaron Judge's Unusual Career Path

Chuck Schumer's Speech on Israel

Progressive San Francisco through the Conservative Fun-House Mirror

Brandon Belt Can't Find a Team

The War in Gaza and Biden's Reelection Hopes

Reality and Right-Wing Fantasy in San Francisco Elections

MLB’s Soft Collusion

The Greatest Threat to Israel is Still Israel

Defining the Right in San Francisco

Steve Garvey, Union Street, 1983

Threats to Democracy Won't Go Away if Trump is Defeated Again

An Early Look at the San Francisco Mayor's Race

Maybe I Won't Watch Baseball This Year

Biden, Gaza and the Arab American Vote

Garry Tan's Threats Should Not Be Forgotten

The Greatest Infield Ever, Part II

Why the War in Gaza Will Go On

Garry Tan's Dangerous Tantrum

The Greatest Infield Ever-Part One

Let's Finally Stop Pretending the Primary is Competitive

San Francisco's Ceasefire Resolution

America’s New Proxy Wars

The Greatest Yankees Infield Ever

Memory, History and Punk Rock in San Francisco

We Cannot Assume Americans Want Democracy

Conservatives Will Seek to Consolidate Gains in San Francisco in 2024

Three for the Hall

Biden Must Do Something About the Civilian Casualties in Gaza