Have you ever wondered how many Americans have actually spent time in New York City on business? Do you find it interesting that the people in the Western Hemisphere’s most sophisticated city voted overwhelmingly for the new mayor? These people …
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Predictably, the right-wing “news” media is having a seizure over the inauguration of the new mayor of New York City. A guy on Newsmax said, “He took his oath swearing on the Quran! He doesn’t even believe in the true …
The ancient (pre-Socratic) Greek philosopher Heraclitus is most remembered for having written, “Change is the only constant,” or alternatively translated, “Nothing endures but change.” He wrote, “Into the same rivers we both do and do not step,” meaning that the …
An international hero. I met a guy earlier today, and we were discussing why human civilization is losing the battle against environmental collapse. The answer, obviously, is that there are too few David Attenboroughs and too much greed, ignorance, indifference, …
This from journalist and Presbyterian minister Chris Hedges. Corporations are not inherently evil. It is this business structure that built the aqueducts of ancient Rome. Yet the last couple of decades have opened Pandora’s box, including the infamous “Citizens United” …
To the reader who sent me this: America, the land of the free, doesn’t tell other people what they can and cannot wear. It’s covered in the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, under feedom of expression. It’s a shame …
Find the news “disturbing?” From this segment on National Public Radio: Less than five years after urging rioters to “kill” police at the Capitol, a former Jan. 6 defendant is working as a senior adviser for the Department of Justice, …
In this short interview, neuroscientist and public intellectual Sam Harris explains how dangerous RFK, Jr. is to our nation and its people. Pathological liars, especially talented ones, are very hard to catch–but it can be done.
Electing a criminal nut-job to the White House comes at a cost. OK, but how big a cost? Let’s hope we never find out.
… as Hamlet told his mother. Apparently, this boob thinks he can stop the wheels of justice with this type of blathering. Wrong.
