Jack Daniels’ home county in Tennessee voted overwhelming for Trump (obviously), but how happy are these people today? The whiskey-maker’s largest customer, Canada’s province of Ontario, just cleared its shelves of their product and returned it without payment. The result …
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Trump’s lack of interest in learning about the workings of the world around him does, in fact, render him incompetent. He has essentially zero knowledge of the geopolitics that are required for his job, and that’s just fine with him. …
We didn’t have something specifically called “Civics” when I was in elementary school, but by the time we were in 5th or 6th grade, every single kid in our class understood that the United States government consisted of three co-equal …
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Let’s be honest. Very few Americans dispute the assertion that “Trump is a monster.” Almost half of U.S. voters approve of Trump’s aggression in cutting spending on Ukraine, NATO, education, environmental protection, disease control, etc. I can hear his support …
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At left are opposing views on the subject of human empathy, including one from German-American historian and philosopher Hannah Arendt, one of the most influential political theorists of the twentieth century. What Elon Musk says on the subject is reminiscent …
In an earlier post, Destroying America, I speculated that it is the decline in U.S. educational standards that is responsible for our electing “a conman with the IQ of a jar of mayonnaise.” At left is a slightly different take …
Recently, we learned about Trump’s practice of charging businesspeople $5 million for an audience with him. Now, we have the news at left. Morally, America is in freefall. Is there no stopping this?
At left is a subject of intense debate, i.e., how did the United States come to find itself governed by “a conman with the IQ of a jar of mayonnaise?” The common wisdom, and I can’t offer any real improvement …
Yes, Trump “blew up” our friendship with our neighbor to the north, but it seems that the Canadians are taking all this philosophically, which is typical of their demeanor. Intelligent and decent people are aware that s*** happens. In this …
Here’s something we see commonly on social media. Do you agree sir or madam, completely ignorant of basic biology though you may be, that there are only two genders? This is actually a very interesting topic among scientifically literate people, …
