Republicans: “Trump Dangerously Unfit”

Expect increasingly unhinged behavior as desperation sets in. What to make of his despotic orders to indict his present and past political opponents on baseless charges? What’s next?

Expect increasingly unhinged behavior as desperation sets in. What to make of his despotic orders to indict his present and past political opponents on baseless charges? What’s next?


A pandemic largely behind us, jobs not going overseas, and job growth post-COVID, environmental stewardship, the U.S. honored and respected internationally, race-related hatred and violence assuaged, a career criminal indicted, convicted, and imprisoned.
First things first. Vote.

We can only hope that this will be over soon.
As my friend David Leebron, president of Rice University and former Dean of the Columbia Law School, said on a Zoom meeting yesterday, “A large part of the power of this country, in addition to its economic might, is its values. Historically, we’ve stood for honor and decency, and even countries that generally resent us respect us for that.”


Uganda, Kenya and Total are building a pipeline to carry Ugandan oil to the Kenya coast.
South Africa’s offshore Luiperd Block might be larger than 500 million barrels. (more…)

Let’s face facts: these are some pretty bad times for the world as a whole, and especially the United States–and keeping a good attitude through this is vital. The powers that are lined up to harm the world’s people so that they themselves may profit are counting on driving us into a kind of resignation and apathy.
Let’s not let it happen.

A caller wanted to share his opinion of me, after I presented a bit of climate science to the audience, resulting in this insect metaphor, on the basis that I was scaring Americans into believing a hoax.
I chuckled, and responded, “Look, my job is to interview scientists and to boil down and present their findings to large audiences of people who, generally, don’t have a great deal of scientific training. This is what I do for a living. If that makes me a cockroach, I really don’t know what to tell you.”