What’s My Country Known For?
Becoming the world’s latest autocratic regime.
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Trump Campaigning in Iowa
I’d like to know why people aren’t laughing in his face, given that the national debt went up $2.23 trillion last year.
Late-Term Abortions
The reader who sent me the meme at left notes: “Abortion is child sacrifice. Children are blessings, and we must never believe the age‑old lie that their death will somehow secure a better future.”
In the United States, a 9-month pregnant woman cannot simply “decide” to have an elective abortion. While some states have no specific gestational limits on abortion, abortions in the third trimester (which begins around 24–28 weeks) are almost exclusively performed due to severe medical complications, such as a risk to the life of the mother or a fatal fetal anomaly. A little under 1% of abortions fit into this category.
The Arkansas State Supreme Court has made all abortions illegal, regardless of the circumstances.
So here’s a scenario:
A woman a few days from her due date already has a name for the baby and his room is fully furnished. But then she receives catastrophic news. Her doctor informs her that either she or her baby (or both) will not survive delivery.
As a society, we need to decide who gets to make this decision: the woman and her doctor, or the Arkansas State Supreme Court.
People who prefer the latter have something profoundly defective going on.
The President of Law and Order
The irony, of course, is that he’s a sociopathic criminal.
His supporters are truly pathetic human beings.
Ignorance and Vice
Here’s a thought from founding father and political philosopher Samuel Adams.
Anyone who can’t see where this country is being led is blind as a bat.
Kindness to Animals
I like to eat no higher on the food chain than seafood.
Even fish suffer when they’re killed by deprivation of the dissolved oxygen content in water. That’s why my boyhood bass fisherman friend and I used to shoot the fish in the head when we caught them in our neighboring lakes and brought them ashore.
Be kind.
Mel Gibson as Governor of California?
As every literate person on Earth understands, California is largely (though not exclusively) composed of well-educated and fairly affluent progressives. We value raw sewage more highly that we do the handful of celebrity Trump supporters of whom Mel Gibson is an example.
How Healthy Are Greenland’s Glaciers?
At a dinner party a few years ago, I had the good fortune to be seated next to a guy from JPL, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, who was leading a team of scientists who were studying the interior of glaciers.
Since they disintegrate from the inside, it’s necessary for us to know more than their area, which we’ve been able to determine from satellite imagery for half a century, and establish their health in three dimensions.
He wasn’t a “happy camper.”
How Is U.S. Insanity Affecting Tourism?
It’s probably a bit too soon to have useable statistics on this subject, but it’s certainly not too early to apply some common sense.
There are two factors at play here:
1) America is broadly regarded as a rogue country. Do you want to visit North Korea? Do Canadians want to spend money in a country that wants to annex them?
2) America is now understood to be unsafe. Do you want to visit Palestine? Ukraine? Iran?
The Real World Actually DOES Need Changing
What black conservative/libertarian Thomas Sowell offers here is one theory.
Another is even simpler. In this country, people of color face the results of centuries of oppression. Our educational system, funded as it is by property taxes, greatly favors the rich, where kids grow up in expensive houses. On average, the net worth of a white family is 11 times that of a black family.
Efforts to rectify this, I would argue, are morally good.
