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An important message for those who knew me as DownstateDemocrat on Daily Kos and Daily Kos Elections

This is Aaron Camp here. As the final day of the 2010’s comes to a close and a new decade begins, it is important to note that, for me, the 2010’s were, for me, defined by my heavy use of Daily Kos, going under the handle DownstateDemocrat on that site, for expressing my political views. However, due to a post that I wrote on Daily Kos that was completely accurate, but drew the ire of many other…

J.K. Rowling defends transphobe and proves that she is a transphobe herself

AUTHOR’S NOTE: This blog operates on U.S. Central Time. However, references to time of day in regards to a J.K. Rowling tweet that is embedded in this blog post are in British Standard Time.

For those of you who are not familiar with the purpose of the #IStandWithMaya hashtag, it’s a hashtag that people who are defending virulent transphobe Maya Forstater, who recently lost her job over…

What if the six states admitted to the Union under Benjamin Harrison were admitted as a single state?

AUTHOR’S NOTE: This blog post is a preview of a future self-published political eBook, to be written by the author of this blog post under the pen name Aaron Apollo Camp and tentatively titled Gerrymandering the Senate: How Benjamin Harrison’s 19th Century Political Power Grab Affects American Politics Today.

Last month, a Reddit user operating under the screen name u/BroIBelieveAtYou,…

About Pete Buttigieg operative Lis Smith paling around with white supremacists

Lis Smith is a key figure in Pete Buttigieg’s campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination. This was an article that Politico Magazine ran on their website earlier this year about Smith’s instrumental role in Pete’s political rise as a presidential candidate, and, long story short, without Smith, Pete would have virtually zero chance of winning our party’s presidential nomination.

It’s…

BEST OF THE DECADE: The best sports moment of the 2010s was the Kick Six

As part of the special series of blog posts here on Apollo Corner about the best of the 2010s, let’s take a look back at the best sports moment of the decade. There was a lot of competition for this title, but I chose the Kick Six play from the 2013 American college football game between the University of Alabama and Auburn University as the best sports moment of the decade.

Normally, with an…

BEST OF THE DECADE: The best blog post of the decade was about enthusiastic consent

AUTHOR’S NOTE: This is the first blog post in a multi-part special series entitled “Best of the Decade”, about the best things of the 2010’s.

Over the next month or so, I will be writing a series of blog posts about the best things of the 2010’s. My first blog post in the series will be about what I consider to be the best blog post of the decade, although one rule that I’ve self-imposed…

Why my first eBook failed to sell well #WritingCommunity #AdmittingMistakes

Introduction

Meg LaTorre, the literary agent-turned-author who hosts the iWriterly series of YouTube videos about book writing and publishing, described the pros and cons of self-publishing a book in this video, which was posted to YouTube last month:

Skip to the 23:44 mark of the above video for the point that is relevant to…

South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem: “…I’m on meth.”

To be clear, Gov. Kristi Noem (R-SD) is, to the best of my knowledge, not actually a meth addict. However, the South Dakota state government recently unveiled one of the most poorly-designed ad campaigns in U.S. history. To give you a general idea of what the ad campaign is, here’s the actual logo of the ad campaign:

https://twitter.com/ByMikeBaker/status/1196531425152880642

There’s even…

Unnamed Lafayette County, Wisconsin Supervisor proposes resolution calling for journalists to be prosecuted

An unnamed member of the Lafayette County, Wisconsin Board of Supervisors proposed a controversial resolution that, if enacted, would allow for journalists to be prosecuted if information in press release regarding a water study covering a three-county area in southwestern Wisconsin is published, but not in its entirety:

https://twitter.com/jessieopie/status/1192879119450755073 htt…

Why I use “‘s” for the possessive form of all singular nouns, even those ending in “s”

While it is universal in the English language for the possessive form of plural nouns to be written with just a following apostrophe, there is a debate on whether just a following apostrophe, or a following apostrophe followed by the letter “s”, should be used to denote the possessive form of singular nouns whose final letter of the nominative form is “s”.

In 2007, the Arkansas State…

Alexander Vindman to testify that Trump and Sondland tried to pressure Ukraine into investigating the Bidens

AUTHOR’S NOTE: The author of this blog post is supporting Elizabeth Warren’s candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination, but does not have any formal ties to the Warren campaign.

Lt. Col. Alexander S. Vindman, a U.S. Army officer who listened in on the Trump-Zelenskyy call that is now the subject of an impeachment inquiry, will testify to Congress tomorrow that Donald Trump and…

Bill Taylor testifies that Trump wanted aid to Ukraine withheld in exchange for investigations against Biden

AUTHOR’S NOTE #1: A charge(e) d’affaires is a person who heads a diplomatic embassy in the absence of an ambassador, or in vacancy of an ambassadorship. The masculine singular form is charge d’affaires, the feminine singular form is chargee d’affaires, and the plural form is charges d’affaires.

AUTHOR’S NOTE #2: The author of this blog post is supporting Elizabeth Warren’s bid for the…

Congratulations to Abby Finkenauer and Daniel Wasta on their engagement!

Earlier today, Daniel Wasta proposed to U.S. Representative Abby Finkenauer (D-IA-1). The Congresswoman said yes!

https://twitter.com/Abby4Iowa/status/1185987378135097345

I wish Abby and Dan the best in their engagement and future marriage, and I am very happy for both of them!

AUTHOR’S NOTE: This blog post is part of a recurring series of blog posts titled Product Review, in which I review goods and services that I’ve used.

Earlier this month, I used a service called PublishDrive to publish my eBook. PublishDrive claims to be able to allow publishers to self-publish eBooks to major eBook sellers like Amazon Kindle, Apple Books, Barnes & Noble Nook, and Google…

A tribute to Elijah Cummings

It is my sad duty to report that U.S. Representative Elijah Cummings of Maryland, who was the chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, has died from what his family is describing as ” complications concerning longstanding health challenges.” Elijah was 68 years old at the time of his death.

Elijah was a great clarion voice for American democracy. He was especially…