It depends on what you believe. Fox News will tell you that our southern border is no longer being overrun, that we’ve discovered that vaccinations are unsafe, that we’re standing up against Sharia Law, we’re preventing Iran from building a …
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Has Anything Improved in the Last Two Years?
Tagged with: Fox News, our southern border is no longer being overrun, prices are coming down (or soon will be), that discovered that vaccinations are unsafe, the U.S. is once again respected on the world stage, Trump is an honest and effective servant of the American people, we're preventing Iran from building a nuclear weapon, we're standing up against Sharia Law
A Relief to be around Like-Minded People
I met a guy today from a rural part of Central England–“nothing but farms and pubs,” as he put it. His father was an epidemiologist working for the United Nations, and so, as a boy, he lived all over the …
What Shapes Our Politics?
I may have mentioned that I’m lucky enough to be a part of a group of boyhood friends from our prep school in Philadelphia that meets monthly on Zoom. Yesterday the question came up as to how our political beliefs …
Tagged with: politics
Is There a Pattern in Republicans’ Behavior?
I’m not sure it’s as simple as this, insofar as Bush 41 and 43 weren’t criminal sociopaths. I happened to be driving through Manhattan on the very day that Colin Powell was addressing the United Nations just a few miles …
Illegal Immigrants Are Voting Huge?
The Brennan Center at NYU’s seminal report on this issue, The Truth About Voter Fraud, found that most reported incidents of voter fraud are actually traceable to other sources, such as clerical errors or bad data matching practices. The report …
There Were Prior Threats to the Nation Stemming from the White House
For most of our lives, many of us boomers have believed that the biggest threat to the United States was our president, starting with Tricky Dick Nixon, the inventor of the “trickle-down economics,” liar Ronald Reagan, and GW (the moron) …
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Will the U.S. Top Military Intervene Before Trump Inflicts Irreparable Damage
It’s still possible that our most senior military leaders will insert themselves in time to prevent some truly catastrophic event here in the United States/abroad. I keep thinking I’ll read about an exchange like this: Trump: We’re invading Greenland. Some …
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Yes, Human Activity, in its Current State, Is Unsustainable
The fact that human activity is unsustainable has been revealed to us gradually over the last century. Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring” was published 63 years ago. That said, the ideas of climate change, ocean acidification, and loss of biodiversity have …
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Tagged with: Climate Change, corporate-owned media misinforms our citizenry., Decarbonizing our grid and transportation sector, human activity is unsustainable, loss of biodiversity, ocean acidification, Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, The only thing standing in the way of rapid environmental progress is greed
The Worst Period in U.S. History
Part of what is enabling Trump to get away with all the lies and criminality is that they never stop. Not a single day passes without a revelation of some new outrage. The American people are overwhelmed and unable to …
Setbacks
We need to keep a couple of things in perspective: 1) Humankind has experienced setbacks a great number of times, including the Dark Ages, the Spanish Inquisition, the Salem witch trials, totalitarianism, and the Nazis. 2) Where the cause of …
Tagged with: climate change is a hoax, falling into communism, filled unintelligent and meanspirited people with the BS they require to believe that the nation is coming for your guns, Humankind has experienced setbacks a great number of times, Nazis, the Dark Ages, the MAGA movement was created by corruption, the Salem witch trials, the Spanish Inquisition, the U.S. is respected abroad, totalitarianism, Trump is an honest and effective leader, Vaccines are lethal, where a handful of billionaires and the media outlets they own
