At left we have a handful of irrelevant facts. Knowing all this, Trump appointed Gaetz to be the U.S. attorney general, to the sheer delight of the MAGA right. The only relevant fact here is that Gaetz comes from an …
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Good News from Montana in Climate Change Mitigation …. Or Is It?
From the Daily Montanan: The Montana Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a district court ruling in the nation’s first constitutional climate change trial, affirming that the youth plaintiffs have a “fundamental constitutional right to a clean and healthful environment” while …
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Music that Transports Us Can Be “About” Something
In my own less-than-sophisticated words I would say that program music is music that is about something. From Wikipedia: Program music or programmatic music is a type of instrumental art music that attempts to musically render an extramusical narrative. The narrative itself might be offered to …
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Yes, PBS Is Progressive, But How Bad Is That?
Well, this really is what progressives are all about: more inclusion and better education. But are smarter and kinder people really destroying our country?
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Fox News Is Dishonest
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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