You want to know why gun regulations with 80% approval don't become law? Because pro-gun voters vote every single time based on guns. Anti-gun voters vote for different things, diluting their strength. Want gun safety? Be a single issue voter.

There is no one in cable TV who is as good at having the wrong conversation as Andrea Mitchell. She misses the point all the time. #WorstInterviewerEver

When I research articles I start to feel like I know a lot about the subject. Then I interview someone who REALLY knows the subject and feel like I don't know anything. That was my morning.

I have interviewed maybe a billion people in the whiskey business have never encountered anyone I felt was just reading to me out of their MBA playbook. It really is like no other business I've dealt with.

My 1st big article about environmental restoration is finished. It took 2 months and goes in depth on a subject that has received a lot of superficial coverage. This will hopefully open the door for many others. That’s the plan, anyway. #FishStory

Lunch date for tomorrow shows up today. I have texts to prove it was supposed to be tomorrow, but could use a nice lunch so I'm going with the flow.

I just got an invitation to pitch a story idea to a literary non-fiction journal. The invitation included this: "Our typical response time is six months, though we may take longer on occasion." So they're not in the market for anyone's A-list ideas.

Whiskey writer office supply closet.

Writers block. Being in my office is driving me nuts. So I'm at a coffee shop hoping for the best. Not there yet, but I feel like after about a half-hour of dicking around it'll come back into focus. It better, 2500 words due Monday and I've got...let me count. I've got zero.

The vogue for referring to people who have no place to live as "houseless" discriminates against people who don't have apartments.

Writers Block Day 7. Deadlines loom. Currently concentrating on plausible excuses to give editors. Not getting much traction on those, either.

Hey JoeNBC ! Ephemeral & Malodorous:. Worst law firm ever. Just hired to represent Trump in Georgia.

A nice piece of reporting by Aallyah Wright. You think Wal Mart was bad? Dollar stores are killing the economies of rural and Arican American communities. capitalbnews.org/dollar-stores-…

Today one of my favorites, Steve Schmidt, made a teeny tiny mistake in a tweet and I pounced on it. I think trolling may be my future.

My first job in the magazine business was as a fact checker. Because of that, I try hard not to resent them. But I do.

The premise they're asking us to accept is that a former President can do whatever he wants to with classified information.

My fish story. undark.org/2023/06/12/ins…

So if Trump didn't find a lawyer, would he not be assigned a public defender to handle his arraignment? Isn't that standard? Imagining Trump huddling outside the courtroom with an overworked PD.

Sometimes journalism is easy. miaminewtimes.com/restaurants/do…

Friday afternoon, Keb Mo, Taj Mahal, and I am a diving duck. youtu.be/-iqTRNUOsFI