Sitemap - 2021 - Up Close with Peter Sage

The wisdom of crowds.

A computer scientist considers democracy

Rand Paul: Voting legally is cheating.

Update and correction: "Let's go, Brandon."

Normalizing "Let's go, Brandon."

Potential good news on COVID

'Tis the season to be jolly.

Biden pivots on COVID. Trump, too.

Body language and tone: "Faith cometh by hearing."

Manchin: The country's highest WAR score.

"Spitting is dangerous, indecent, and against the law!"

Home tests for COVID: negative

The unvaccinated are dying. Blame Biden

Profiles of the Capitol rioters

Medford is Number One for Un-affordability

Vaccinations: Mandate or incentivize

Kentucky tornado 74. Kentucky COVID 11,713

Walking on woke eggshells

California strikes back. Oregon could as well.

America's war of religions

Can Tina Kotek be elected Oregon Governor??

Hey Joe, Wake up!

GOP undervote tanked Trump

Abortion: A matter of principle

Who gets abortions?

Your gun? Your fault

Nick Kristof: Request for Proposals

Abortion rights: "The heart of liberty is the right to define one’s concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe."

Abortion and Gun Control

Republican Disaster. Roe v. Wade may be reversed.

Asymmetric intensity. Biden Sucks!!!

Trolling the libs.

We Boomers are aging out.

Kick-Ass Jesus

War in Ukraine

Blame Biden.

Thanks.

Democrats and Religious Language

Prepare yourselves for a "not-guilty" verdict in the Ahmaud Arbery case.

Tightrope: City Boy, Country Boy

Nick Kristof is screwing up.

Survey results: Mostly Democrats and Frustrated Conservatives

Unfinished work

Election Reform Overdue in Oregon

A doctor's advice on holiday gatherings

Old men cling to power. Then someone takes it.

Second Banana

Heroic bureaucrats

2nd Request: I would like to hear from my readers

Request of my readers

How sweet and fitting it is to die for one's country.

Veterans Day.

Enabling a Coup d'état

Crowds

Men are men. Women are women. Or maybe not so much.

The unvaccinated: victims of prejudice

The flags of Eastern Oregon

The infrastructure bill and the Democratic bench

Taxing carbon to save the planet. Maybe.

We have met the enemy

The troubling history of the USA in Ghana

Why Immigration Reform Eludes Us, Part Two

Why Immigration reform eludes us

The trouble with experience.

WSJ on Trump: He's "bananas," but people like bananas.

Republicans beware: There are left populists, too.

Rube Goldberg tax plan Hail Mary

Public health is a victim of its own success.

Working 9 to 5, what a way to make a living

Getting paid for the data we share

Manchin bid "One No Trump"

Cannabis harvest

Democrats don't have the votes to "think big."

Damned lies and statistics

Fiduciary. Some jobs include a duty of care.

Billionaires and their billions

Oregon, don't be a sucker

Ashli Babbitt, martyr

Whatever happened to "Love Your Neighbor?"

Has Trump finally gone too far?

The COVID Workplace

Yesterday. . . Oh I believe in yesterday.

Monoclonal Antibodies

Let me apologize for the crude language

Finally! A reason to be vaccinated.

County Commissioners from Trump Country: Trust God, not doctors

Message judo.

Good bye, Facebook

Whitewashing an attempted coup d'état.

Night Watch, in cannabis.

Simple: Elect more liberals

Up close: An abortion story

When is a "coup" not a "coup?"

Trump voters are getting sick and dying.

Forget Red-State, Blue-State

Oregon Congressional Districts: Republicans took the deal

Avoid the unvaccinated.

Defending against domestic civil unrest.

Celebrating Diversity in Medford

As Vice President, Kamala Harris can discard the electoral votes cast for a Republican.

As Vice President Kamala Harris can discard the votes cast for the Republican.

Women are primates, too

Hypocrite!

Fertility, Part Two: What about men?

Fertility: Women are choosing to have fewer babies

Second-Hand smoke. Stop Fascism!

Is Gavin Newsom TOO good looking?

COVID Breakthrough: An UpClose Report

COVID: Too tough to care.

Elections don't matter.

Civilizing the male mammal

Gavin Newsom got very lucky

There is no middle ground on overthrowing the election.

You probably won't die of COVID

Canada debates vaccine mandates

Texas, Taliban, and Apes

Medford in the news again

Mask? Hell, no!

Twisted path to unfair taxes

Redistricting Oregon

Texas is a state of mind.

Texas abortion ban: disaster for Republicans.

Counter Revolution in Afghanistan and Texas.

Amid the gloom, you got to admit it's getting better.

Summer: the new normal of fire and smoke.

Vaccination Porn: COVID Death of an Anti-Vaxxer

Wealth and Poverty

Afghanistan: A long history of blunder

COVID Hotspot update

Afghanistan Chess, Part Two: Pivot to China

Oregon's 2020 Election: No evidence of Trump accusations of widespread fraud.

Afghanistan Chess: Pivot to China

Afghan Airlift

Waste, fraud, and abuse.

Afghanistan: Maybe blaming them is wrong.

Good on principle.

Kabul Airlift: Biden has an opportunity.

Nation building: We invaded Islam

Escape from Afghanistan

Afghan House of Cards

Homeless in Portland: A resident speaks out.

Homeless in Portland

"This is the worst conditions our hospitals have seen--ever."

Scenes of Portland, Oregon

Summer Rioters Sentenced to Long Prison Terms

After Biden, what?

Anti-Vaccination sentiment.

Republicans became the counterculture hippies

"VOTE DONT WORK. NEXT TIME BULLETS."

Election was fair and accurate

How our democracy ends

Wonder Women

"Peter, I respectfully disagree."

"Peter, you watch too much Fox News."

The Shrinking Mail Tribune newspaper

Time to re-think COVID

Election Fraud in Oregon. Did it happen here?

COVID is complicated.

GOP moderate: Silent consent to overthrowing the election

Masks and Shutdowns. We aren't going back.

Anti-vaxxers. If they die, they die.

We the People

The disability of memory and experience

My Morning Reading

Jeff Bezos, Space Cowboy

"I finally capitulated and got my first (Pfizer) vaccination last week."

Sorry for the sedition.

Olivia Rodrigo and Anthony Fauci

COVID risk. COVID vaccine risk.

A Quiet Coup d'état

Wage Inflation

The Messenger is the Message

Who? Olivia Rodrigo? Who?

Wildfire. Evacuate NOW.

He leads me beside still waters

Turnabout is Fair Play

Legal Cannabis in Oregon

After some hesitation, Toyota chooses democracy

Conspiracy! Nancy Pelosi is brilliant!

The New York Election Disaster

America: Exceptional and Imperfect

Stark raving crazy. He has a following.

July Fourth Flag Waving

Smoking "weed" in Oregon

Deferred Maintenance

Trump Organization Indicted

Endless American wars

Climate Change. Don't jump to conclusions.

We are the enemuy

Democrats are worried about the wrong thing.

Melons are fun

Farming luck, good and bad

Help Wanted: Cannabis

Farming during a drought

Democrats win by flukes

Joe Manchin is a sentimental fool

Downstate Oregon blues.

Juneteenth. What? Juneteenth???

Supreme Court saves Republicans again

In praise of eighth-grade English teachers.

Peace Now

Humans profile. We categorize.

Crazies running the asylum

Confessions of a RINO

Save the planet.

COVID: Real people get the disease.

Jessica Gomez enters the Oregon Governor race

What if climate change is real, but it isn't mostly human-caused?

Maybe COVID was a lab leak, after all

Who gets COVID? The unvaccinated. Trump voters.

Shifting blame: "one tragic day"

Format Changes, Part Two

Political Blogging is Easy

Politics. Messaging. The meaning behind the meaning.