I just came back from the gym where, unfortunately, they have one of their televisions locked on Fox News. I noticed a segment called Voters Eagerly Await Trump’s Return to White House. This is a good example of a key …
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Revolutionaries Must Be Educated
For better or worse, there will never be another revolution here in the U.S., given our nation’s annual military budget that’s just shy of $1 trillion. That said, what Che Guevara said here about revolutionaries and education is quite interesting. …
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Layers of Nonsense
Here’s something from 20th Century playright Thornton Wilder. The problem is that “nonsense” comes in a variety of different flavors, and some of them are more harmful than others. Just turn on the news, and you’ll see what I mean. …
Our “Indecent Society”
It’s hard to know exactly what Kurt Vonnegut was referring to when he used the word “indecent” here. Maybe it’s just an amorphous combination of war, poverty, denial of healthcare, lack of clean water, and injustice. He was also a …
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Silence
When my kids were in elementary school, I loved to volunteer as a chaperone on their field trips, and I remember with great fondness one of my daughter’s favorite teachers, Englishman Martin Cook, whom she had for 5th Grade. Mr. …
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Quick Post on Grammar
A reader asks: When you say “He’s not as happy as ______” do you say “me” or “I?” Because the verb “to be” never takes an object, the correct answer is “I”; this is called a “predicate nominative.” The problem …
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What We Can Learn from the Ethics Report on Matt Gaetz
If you think this guy should have been tapped to be attorney general, our nation’s highest law enforcement official, you have the moral sensibilities required to be a member of the MAGA crowd.
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Quick Post on the Second Law of Thermodynamics
I had a physics professor in college who told our class, “When most people go to Germany they tend to take river cruises and drink white wine. Physicists visit Boltzmann’s grave.” I hadn’t thought about this statement in a very …
Is What Our Kids Are Learning a Secret?
Is someone trying to tell me that parents are prevented from knowing what their children are being taught in school? Ridiculous. Both my kids went through the local public high school, and I became thoroughly familiar with the curriculum by …
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Why the Condemnation of Musk Isn’t More Intense
What this gentleman needs to understand is that: 1) The MAGA crowd / Trump base is overtly racist; they openly applaud garbage like this. and 2) The rest of us are overwhelmed by the torrent of outrageous behavior from Trump …
