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 you didn’t learn this in school.
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, which has been dramatically remade under the second Trump administration.
NPR has obtained police bodycam footage from multiple angles of the former defendant and current administration official, Jared Wise, berating officers and calling them “Nazi” and “Gestapo.” NPR located the footage, which has not previously been published, in a review of thousands of court exhibits from Jan. 6 criminal cases, obtained through legal action by a coalition of media organizations. The Department of Justice had introduced the footage as an exhibit in Wise’s trial. NPR also obtained the transcript of Wise’s testimony, in which he acknowledged that he repeatedly yelled “kill ’em” as officers were being attacked and tried to explain his actions. Wise was not convicted of any crimes related to Jan. 6, due to President Trump’s order to end all Capitol riot prosecutions.
It doesn’t take a genius to see where all this is headed.
Our nation’s president operates completely above the law, and, at this point, it appears that there is no power on Earth that can stop him.
Trump is surrounded by people whose only qualification for their jobs is their loyalty to the king of the United States.
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.
Readers outside the U.S. are unlikely to know the name of Arby’s, the fast-food restaurant founded in the 1970s known for its roast beef sandwiches.
Looks like they’re finally failing after a good run.
I interviewed their top marketing executive a few weeks ago, who told me that cost pressures had finally caught up with them. He continued to explain that they were experiencing decreasing demand for the flesh of murdered cows.
Just kidding. He didn’t express it quite that way.
His point was that the trend toward veganism, plant-based meat, etc., was a huge contributing factor.
For those too young to remember, there was a time in U.S. history when many people believed that there was essentially no difference between the two main U.S. political parties.
Very few see it that way today.
At left are the words of 20th Century philosopher of science Karl Popper. He looks a bit tired, doesn’t he? No wonder.
This is the reason that I generally make no appeals to Trump supporters that to the effect that:
Their man is a criminal sociopath.
The United States requires that all its people, rich and poor alike, obey the law.
We all have an obligation to make sure we leave an inhabitable planet to our descendants.
We educate our children.
We make science the basis of public policy.
Needless to say, when it comes to the acceptance or rejection of God, people around the world vary wildly.
Even those who believe that God created the universe may have a tough time accepting that God has a plan for them, and that everything, including a tragedy like losing a child in a school shooting, is part of that plan.
What lies behind this incredible variance in terms of neurology? It’s probably some combination of genetics and the way our parents raised us.
And let’s not minimize the latter. Being born in the Americas, Europe, Oceana, or the Middle East normally means having a significant indoctrination into theism. Those born in the rest of the world have close to zero chance of that.
I’ve always had a tough time believing that virtually all Japanese people (somewhere between 98 and 99%) are going to burn in hell. If that idea works for you, fine, but it makes me angry.
To the reader who sent me this: It’s not possible to eliminate hate groups, as much as I wish otherwise.
