Twain’s thoughts here apply nicely to U.S. politics in the era of the Big Lie, QAnon, and all other related points of stupidity in American life. And, for a while, it appeared that this is what was keeping Trump afloat …
Trump’s on His Way Out, and That’s a Function of Money Read More »
It’s true: the last 40 years have made us much safer in many ways that are quite important. Sadly, this is counteracted by growing levels of ignorance. Had COVID come along in the 1980s, we wouldn’t have had millions of …
I was recently asked to join the board of Human Trafficking Solutions, a group committed to eliminating modern-day slavery. Though this scourge on human civilization often goes unnoticed, it’s estimated that there are somewhere in the neighborhood of 30 million …
Conservatives like this metaphor, because they don’t have a problem ignoring U.S. history and the unprecedentedly high standard of living that Americans had after World War II, when the tax rates for corporations and wealthy individuals were 90%. Until Reagan …
Conservative forces in the United States have always sought to separate Americans as a people from those living in the rest of the world. As we entered the nuclear age, many of our brightest minds pointed out that this was …
My mom, a life-long Republican, asked me what I thought of the midterm election results, to which I replied, “My take is that the GOP is in an awkward transition period as it expels Trump and tries to re-establish itself …
Trump and the Republican Party–Going Separate Ways, But When? Read More »
The meme here expresses exactly what more and more Republicans are realizing to their horror. It was never about “America first”; it was about the well-being of one man, who’s now walking through a land of disgrace, on his way …
Lots of gratifying and actually amusing things in the news, none the least of which is the utter mess Elon Musk is making of Twitter. I have to say that essentially everything I’ve predicted about Musk has been wrong. Make …
I’ve been wondering why discussion about politics have gotten so toxic, so unapproachable. Doesn’t it seem that, even while Trump was president, civil people could have some sort of peaceful conversation about him? Why is everyone so tense about this …
These people claim to have a workable solution in small wind, on the basis that its unique design gets around the problems that the industry has traditionally encountered. The main challenge in small wind, and the reason that the entire …
