Do you ever have the experience of coming across a piece of news and finding it impossible to believe? It’s so easy to make stuff up nowadays and put it on social media for gullible dupes to forward unwittingly. Does …
Category: Renewables – Politics
Texas (To Take Just One Example) Doesn’t Care About Children
There’s no doubt that the anti-abortion movement has total indifference for the welfare of the children involved. Comedian George Carlin nailed this many decades ago:
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Assessing Trump, and Getting It Right
Fiona Hill is a former official at the U.S. National Security Council specializing in Russian and European affairs, best known for her testimony in the first impeachment of Donald Trump. The point she makes here is one of the most …
Is Trump the Antichrist?
As a non-religious person, I don’t take this literally, though I certainly agree that Trump, as a person, is composed exclusively of the most disgusting characteristics known to humankind.
Can Banning Abortion Violate Rights To Religious Freedom?
A reader asks: So this is interesting: could Jewish women in Red states claim that restrictions on pregnancy termination violate their 1st Amendment right to religious freedom? I doubt it. I’m 100% pro-choice, but I think this will fail. Similar …
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Will Corporate America Ostracize Fox News?
I doubt it, and here’s why. In the 1970s, I went to Trinity College, one of the many liberal arts schools in New England. A few years ago, when Trump was in office, I had a conversation with one of …
How Scary Is Pennsylvania Politics?
An old friend from my home state of Pennsylvania writes: PA is in danger. And therefore, the rest of the country. Find a way to participate in OUR democracy before you vote in November. This is by a friend of …
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Confronting the Truth on U.S. Racism
At age six, Ruby Bridges (see photo below) became the first African-American child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana in 1960. The meme here is, of course, a reference to whites’ objections to our schools’ teaching …
Russian Film Director Has Had Enough
Who among us hasn’t thought about what we would do if we lived in Russia and had a) access to the truth about the invasion of Ukraine, and b) the means to escape? Not to take anything away from this …
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Tell ‘Em What They Want to Hear
These people know they’re playing to a huge audience of hateful morons, and, I have to admit, they’re damn good at it. I’m reminded of the scene in the 1974 film “Blazing Saddles” where African-American actor Cleavon Little is assigned …
