At left are the words of Gene Roddenberry, the creator of the original television series “Star Trek.” The concept that differences in ideas and cultures are something to be regarded as a “delight” is the very soul of “woke.” Encouraging …
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Elon Musk’s Kid???
You don’t have to be a great communicator like Winston Churchill or Ronald Reagan to know that deliberately distracting your audience when you’re trying to make serious points is a bad idea. That’s what made the decision to have a …
Blaming Your Opponents for Your Own Sins and Errors
“White House says judges balking at Trump’s actions are provoking a ‘constitutional crisis.’” That’s rich, but it really is the single most common tactic that Team Trump uses as it attempts to undermine our democracy and put an end to …
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Ignoring Reality
What Aldous Huxley said here is absolutely true, and it applies so broadly across human society. Most obviously, we have environmental collapse in general and climate change in particular. The longer we delay our efforts to decarbonize our energy and …
The Controversy Over DEI
I can’t swear the story at left actually happened, but it certainly rings true–especially the end. People who don’t want a more inclusive and fair society truly are “unpleasant.”
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Associated Press Under Pressure
As shown below, it seems that the Associated Press, which has been serving to inform the world’s people since 1846, is having a bit of trouble doing its job. In particular, it was banned from a U.S. White House press …
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Now More than Ever, Federal Judges Are Hard at Work
As we step even deeper into the constitutional crisis which is being structured at the hands of President Musk, those federal judges sure are busy little beavers.
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“A Day in the Life of Sue Republican”
I’ve always liked this: Sue gets up at 6 a.m. and fills her coffeepot with water to prepare her morning coffee. The water is clean and good because some tree-hugging liberal fought for minimum water-quality standards. With her first swallow …
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Tesla Boycott
It looks like there has been a transition from: Tesla owners affixing bumper stickers that read: “I bought this car before I realized that Elon Musk is a terrible person.” to: An international boycott against Tesla.
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Mark Hamill Speaks for a Great Number of Us
Many of us agree with Hamill and see it as our duty to oppose the criminal sociopath in the White House.
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