I have to say that I’m a sucker for a good analogy, and I love what Tony Rush has done at left.
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Catholic Cardinal vs. Woke Ideologies
Apparently, what Cardinal Mueller said at left is factual, and, for some perverse reason, it makes me laugh. This guy is so far out of step with the Catholic church and the changes it’s made over the last decade or …
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Trump’s Boat Strikes Are “A Danger to Us All”
The danger posed by Trump’s bombing of the boats off the coast of Venezuela is that it’s blatantly lawless. It’s a clear violation of an entire array of domestic and international legislation, and just another indication that Trump believes he’s …
Education in America
It’s both surprising and disappointing to see our country’s greatest minds, like Mark Twain and Robert Frost, make comments like this about education. Would our children be better off illiterate? Unable to find Russia on a globe? Believing that the …
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The Coming Collapse of Ford Due to its Abandonment of its EV Business
Ford just took a $19.5 billion write-down, given what they spent, all for nought, into its foray into electric transportation. That’s about twice its annual earnings. Worse, it means that Ford will become essentially irrelevant in about 10 years, according …
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The Demise of the Kennedy Center
The tragic story of what has happened to the United States in general and the Kennedy Center in particular reminds me of a conversation I had with a lady on a plane years ago, headed for Las Vegas. She said …
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Aldous Huxley on Mind Manipulation
Trump supporters come in two types: those who are well educated and financially strong but morally feeble, and the uneducated MAGA folks. What Aldous Huxley said at left doesn’t apply whatsoever to the former group. They’re well aware that Trump …
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Atheism
Regarding the claim at left, I doubt it. It’s true that most reasonable people reject the ideas of Christian fundamentalists, whether we’re talking about creationism, or worse, the concept all non-believers–Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, etc.– are doomed to spend eternity …
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National Center for Atmospheric Research
What are the effects of Trump’s dismantling the National Center for Atmospheric Research? Well, according to this article in Forbes, there are (or “were”) eight benefits that each and every one of us derives.
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Moronocracy
Quite possibly the single most offensive part of the Trump presidency is that the White House has gone to a great deal of effort to find the very most incompetent people to fill the government’s most important positions. We have …
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