At left we see what really is happening here, but it’s not going down quite the way Khrushchev imagined 70 years ago. Without a wanna-be dictator in the mix, The United States’ relation with Russia would have continued to bump …
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College Anyone?
It’s hard to disagree with the words at left, given that it’s the kid’s decision. College isn’t for everyone in the United States, and that applies, to our shame, to families that can’t afford tuition and the other considerable expenses. …
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The United States Now Backs Dictatorship over Democracy
As Bernie Sanders puts it, “We cannot allow that to stand.” Yet it’s unclear what we can do about it, when the majority of congress and about half of U.S. voters support everything Trump says and does, regardless of how …
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With Trump, You’re Not Seeing What You’re Seeing
The nonsense shown at left serves as a reminder of an extremely important fact about life here in America, albeit a sad and disgusting one. There is absolutely nothing that Trump can do or say that his supporters are unable …
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Many Americans Are as Stressed as the Author of the Meme Below
While I care deeply about my country I understand that a) a plurality of voters elected Trump, a man they knew to be a pathological liar, and b) my vote doesn’t count any more than that of some hateful moron. …
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Home Schooling
My recent post about a father who’s considering home schooling as an option for their kid due to the “terrible” quality of education reminds me: how qualified are these folks to home school their kids? I tutor in the local …
Exciting though Nauseating Times
Virtually every day we have shocking news concerning America’s self-destruction in terms of domestic policies and externally, on the world stage. It would seem that all this is unsustainable, i.e., that we’ll reach a point at which there is no …
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What the Earth Is and Is Not Doing
In conversations with senior energy analysist Glenn Doty, he’s warned me of the dangers of promoting ideas like “Mother Nature,” or other suggestions to the effect that the planet is animated by a kind of spirit that protects it from …
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Ukraine
Re: the last sentence in David Axerlrod’s comments here, Zelensky most definitely does know that the majority of American’s stand behind his efforts to repel the Russian invasion. We reject the alignment of our country with Russia, and we stand …
When Parents Say that Public Education Is Terrible, What Do They Mean?
The other day I ran into a young couple with an infant, who live in a rural part of the U.S. I happened to overhear the father saying that the quality of public education where they live is “terrible,” and …
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