Skip to content

Occasional Planet

Progressive Voices Speaking Out

  • Home
  • About
  • Contributors
  • Contact
  • FAQ
  • Click Quotes
  • Who am I?
  • Infographics

Author: Steve Sorkin

A lifelong organizer and activist, Steve Sorkin now qualifies for the senior menu at IHOP and spends his time pontificating on the intertubes. He credits reading Doonesbury faithfully for 40 years for everything he knows.

The Incoming Biden Team: A Review

January 17, 2021 Steve Sorkin Biden Leave a comment

Biden’s Cabinet and Cabinet-level nominations and appointments are complete. He didn’t ask me, but I think overall he gets a ‘B+.’ An ‘A’ for

Continue reading

Proposed St. Louis City – County merger: Better together?

January 28, 2019 Steve Sorkin Cities, Ideas, Missouri region, St. Louis Leave a comment

The “Better Together” plan for the re-consolidation of St. Louis City and St. Louis County is being released, and the initiative drive is about

Continue reading
racism

On-line comments: Where racism reigns

April 7, 2018 Steve Sorkin Language/Words, Media Leave a comment

Against the advice of my cardiologist, I occasionally look at the on-line comments at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch website.  No surprise the comments are

Continue reading
Flynn

Why aren’t Republicans outraged by Flynn’s pro-Russia activities?

December 4, 2017 Steve Sorkin Corruption, Republicans One comment

I have been following several different threads on Facebook and other online places about the Mueller investigation. I am not surprised that there are

Continue reading
toast

Obamacare is probably toast: Trump voters will get hurt

November 30, 2016 Steve Sorkin 2016 Election, ACA/Obamacare Leave a comment

I know people who have blasted Obamacare from the beginning, and refused to even acknowledge that there is anything good about it. When I

Continue reading
Taibbi

Taibbi: Obama’s legacy

November 21, 2016 Steve Sorkin 2016 Election, Obama Leave a comment

One of many great ironies of Trump is that after the Republicans spent eight years blasting Obama for disgracing the presidency and criticizing him

Continue reading
peaceful protest

The hypocrisy of protesting about peaceful protests

November 12, 2016 Steve Sorkin 2016 Election, Activism Leave a comment

It is amazing to see Trump voters complaining about peaceful protests. How many of them were silent when Trump spewed his hatred, and encouraged

Continue reading

Missouri primary ads: All guns, Islamophobia, no issues

August 2, 2016 Steve Sorkin 2016 Election, Missouri region Leave a comment

The Republican primary commercials in Missouri are incredible. https://www.facebook.com/SchaeferForMissouri/videos/10153951886448355/     Apparently one candidate supports bringing Islamic terrorists to Missouri, because he supported a

Continue reading

Sanders, Clinton, Nevada and squabbling liberals

May 19, 2016 Steve Sorkin 2016 Election, Bernie Sanders, Democrats, Hillary Clinton One comment

What happened at the Nevada Democratic Convention is awful and inexcusable, and Sanders needs to apologize; demand that his supporters stop such terrible, hateful,

Continue reading

Jimmy Carter: Driving conservative Christians crazy

August 24, 2015 Steve Sorkin Democrats, Ideas, Religion in Politics Leave a comment

I rarely comment on matters of faith, especially Christianity. I don’t consider myself in any way qualified to comment on the theology of other

Continue reading

Posts navigation

1 2 3 Next Posts»

In case you missed it

  • What if Guns and Bullets Had Not Been Invented Before the Constitution Was Written?
  • Would President Hillary Clinton have saved Roe? Probably Not
  • War, huh (good God y’all) What is it good for? Absolutely nothing
  • Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Confirmation Should’ve Been a Celebration
  • How Loose Lips from Obama Hurt America and the World
  • Back in the USSR

A new book by Arthur Lieber. Political Introverts: How Empathetic Voters Can Help Save American Politics.  Buy it here.

Gloria Shur Bilchik’s new book, Election Insiders: Behind the scenes with the people who make your vote count. Kindle edition now available at Amazon.

Follow Occasional Planet on social media

Newsletter
Twitter
RSS
Facebook