Trump is not an idiot. His IQ may not be too high, but he’s smart enough to know how to conduct himself in his lifelong quest to amass more wealth and power at the expense of everyone else on Earth. …
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At left we see the moral bankruptcy that guides our civilization. I recall many years ago, when Musk was becoming a “thing,” writing a post to the effect that, “What a terrible shame. We really didn’t need just one more …
It’s easy to understand how Trump has great appeal to the hateful idiots and the amoral rich. It’s much harder to see how it’s possible that a huge number of eligible voters are uninvolved in guiding the future of the …
We often hear the MAGA folks claim that voting in the U.S. disproportionate favors the people in big cities, mostly along the coasts. The obvious response: People vote, not acres of land. And yes, it’s true that Trump has little …
Fuller’s words here have been echoed through the ages, e.g., Mahatma Gandhi’s note: “The world has enough for everyone’s need, but not enough for everyone’s greed.” The problem: Most people living in our capitalist civilization care very little about what …
Six months ago, our local CVS drugstore had a manager, a handful of employees answering customers’ questions, checking them out at the cash register, stocking shelves, etc. Last month, I noticed that most of these employees were gone, and the …
· Barack Obama read the actual GOP agenda to a roaring Atlanta crowd Wednesday: a $1 trillion tax cut for millionaires and billionaires, paid for with higher health care costs and Medicaid cuts. Plus a war in Iran that everyone …
The meme here makes sense–until you realize that the most productive, happiest people on Earth live in Scandinavia and the other social democracies scattered around the globe. Providing everyone with the opportunity to succeed seems to work quite well in …
I have bad news for Liz Cheney: Your Republican colleagues couldn’t care less about honor, decency, or basic moral principles. These are no more use to them than a bathing suit is to an Eskimo. They’re raking in cash by …
With all the greed, corruption, hate, and stupidity we live with every day, it’s easy to forget that there are still people like Queen’s Brian May.
