I just met a woman who’s been a flight attendant for Delta Airlines since the early 1990s, who laments that her company has been ruined by corporate greed, which has trashed so many other things in our lives.
As it turns out, the CEO makes more than $20 million per year, largely based on bonuses associated with cutting costs. “Now we have tray tables that don’t work and seatbacks that don’t recline, and nobody even thinks about fixing them.”
She went on, “This shift has been particularly obvious in the case of Delta, which, when I started with them, was known for its southern charm and the feeling of welcoming its passengers. Now, that gone. It’s like it never existed.”
Why? If you’re Trump, Hegseth is the perfect leader of the Pentagon. He’s loyal, lawless, stupid, cruel, misogynistic, and racist. No one could possibly match Trump’s values with any greater precision.
If any of us had been asked before Trump’s arrival on the political scene how we would feel if the United States government descended into abject corruption, became the disgrace of the civilized world, and wanted our opinion on the incarceration of an American president, we would have dismissed it with a laugh.
Now that it has actually happened, we say that removing Trump from office and sending him to prison is the very best outcome possible.
That’s why 70% of Americans and close to 100% of others in the developed world will rejoice the moment that Trump is no longer a figure in world events.
We all know that the basic unit of life is the cell, but have you ever wondered how these tiny cells arrange themselves so as to form our bodies into a particular shape? Why do we have any shape at all? Why don’t we look like a bag of jelly?
I just met the man who, working in a research lab in Finland, discovered the “extracellular matrix,” a collection of proteins and carbohydrates to which all healthy cells must bind in order to stay alive, and it is this that provides the body’s structure.
This has relevance to cancer research, because those cells do not have to adhere to the matrix in order to survive, which is why they move around inside the body, and ultimately metastasize, land somewhere and start dividing rapidly.
I asked him if he is religious, i.e., if he thought God created the extracellular matrix. He immediately replied: no.
Now, part of his response may be rooted in the fact that he’s Scandinavian, a region where virtually no one has a religious affiliation. More likely for this scientist, however, is that the idea that life on Earth, that has evolved over the last four billion years, probably didn’t do so at the direction of the divine.
Isn’t it astonishing we have people eligible to vote who do not even register?
There was a time in U.S. history when the two parties were fairly close to one another politically, and so perhaps in those days, voter apathy could have been excused.
But now we have one entire party idolizing a criminal sociopath, while spreading torrents of disinformation.
His blend of wit and intelligence is a reminder of who and what this country was–up until quite recently.
Try to imagine how Donald Trump would have been regarded in era of this type of quality education and sophistication. Think of how the American people would respond to the idea that liberals are leading our country into communism.
Sometimes my eyes well up with tears when I think about our nation’s devolution into hatred and ignorance.