Extraterrestrials, Anybody?
An old friend is a big believer that the Earth has been visited by alien civilizations, and I’m flattered that he occasionally reaches out to me to get my perspective on articles like the one linked above. I have two observations:
1) I have no way to authenticate the content of this or the hundreds of other papers that have been published on the subject over the past 75 years or so. Especially in today’s world of disinformation, QAnon, etc., I’m suspicious.
2) Over the past 40 years, and especially the periods when I was an extremely frequent flier, I have asked, say, 50 gray-haired airplane pilots if they’d ever seen a UFO. So far, I’ve gotten 49 “definitely nots” and 1 “I saw something I couldn’t explain, but I wouldn’t call it proof of an extraterrestrial aircraft.”
It’s interesting, and extremely sad, that humankind is just now arriving at the point where it’s starting to identify exoplanets that may support intelligent life–just when we’re baking our own planet, and destroying our civilization with hate and ignorance.
The “Tea Party Patriots” say Justice Thomas needs our support now more than ever.
A critical part of American politics is the renaming of anything one side hates as “radical” and “extreme.”
Here’s a “patriot” who wants to sell you “Hold the Line” coins that can be given as gifts to soldiers, first responders, and others who “uphold our constitutional values” (whatever that means).
As you watch this 
Lots of jokes have been made about the passing of Pat Robertson, and the possibility that he’s burning in hell as God’s retribution for the televangelist’s having taken advantage of our nation’s poorest and most ignorant people on his rise to obscene levels of self-enrichment.
Senator Tom Cotton is a Trump supporter and an overt racist from Arkansas. Here’s his message to his constituents in his effort to amass funds to support his reelection campaign.
At left: Düsseldorf in 1990 and 2019.
As suggested by this clever meme, American society is awash completely with untenable beliefs.
Re: the meme here, how stupid do you have to be to buy into this?
