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• Trump War on DEI Promotes Not Merit But Racism

  

  In 1972, as a young Public Service Commission lawyer, cross-examining a utility company executive in a rate hearing, I asked how many employees they had.He... Read more

  Posted on 13 March 2025 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• David Hume on Religion

  

  David Hume (1711-76) was a seminal Scottish philosopher. I recently read a book of essays about his writings. (The Cambridge Companion to Hume.)He was not of... Read more

  Posted on 09 March 2025 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Crazed U.S. Goes to War — Against Our Best Friends

  

  Canada and Mexico. Our next-door besties. But Trump literally doesn’t know the meaning of the word “friend.” Others exist only to manipulate and exploit. Read more

  Posted on 05 March 2025 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• What the Trump-Vance-Zelensky Meeting Means

  

  Friday’s televised White House meeting with Trump and Vance berating and humiliating Ukrainian President Zelensky set a new standard for vileness. Read more

  Posted on 02 March 2025 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Important New Facts You Should Know

  

  The “Steele Dossier” became notorious in connection with the 2016-17 Trump/Russia investigation. Produced by British counter-intelligence operative Christopher... Read more

  Posted on 27 February 2025 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• James and the Giant N-Word

  

  The n-word has a status wholly unique in our language. There are many offensive words whose shock value has been worn to almost nothing. Read more

  Posted on 24 February 2025 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The End of America

  

  For years I’ve written that America as a humane, enlightened democracy could not endure without a citizenry understanding and internalizing its foundational... Read more

  Posted on 21 February 2025 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Trump & Crypto: What Could Go Wrong?

  

  Trump once denounced the whole cryptocurrency thing as a big scam. (He knows from scams.) But he got the religion, after its libertarian government-hating... Read more

  Posted on 19 February 2025 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Trump Administration Debauches U.S. Justice

  

  For years Trump called the U.S. justice system “politicized” and “weaponized” against him, all constituting “election interference.”In fact he’d committed... Read more

  Posted on 16 February 2025 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Trump Puts America in the Axis of Evil

  

  America has switched sides. No longer allied with Europe and opposing Russian aggression. Now we’re Russian flunkies.Hyperbolic hot air? Tragically, no. Read more

  Posted on 14 February 2025 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• New Robinson Auction, Ancient & Early Coins, 592 Lots, No Buyer Fee

  

  Auction 127 is now posted at:http://www.fsrcoin.com/nn.html ORhttp://www.biddr.com/auctions/fsrcoin/browse?a=5529591 lots of ancient & early coins with low... Read more

  Posted on 13 February 2025 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Remembering a Beautiful Person

  It was a stab to my heart seeing her name, in cold black letters, on the obituary page.We’d dated in 1974. RoseAnne Fogarty was such a beautiful person, inside... Read more

  Posted on 11 February 2025 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• We Are All Gazans Now

  

  First Greenland, then the Panama Canal, even maybe Canada. And now Gaza. Though crazier yet, seemingly a more serious notion (at least in Trump’s broken brain). Read more

  Posted on 07 February 2025 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Trump’s Golden Opportunity

  

  My readers know I love The Economist news magazine — a voice of reason in a world gone mad.But after their pre-election endorsement of Harris, I sent a... Read more

  Posted on 03 February 2025 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Vengeance Most Fowl

  

  No, this is not about Trump retribution vileness.It’s a 2024 film (on Netflix) in Britain’s “Wallace & Gromit” series. Wallace is a middle-aged small-time... Read more

  Posted on 31 January 2025 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Golden Door (Until Now)

  

  Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day. On May 14, 1938, Lotte Dreyfuss, 17, standing on a ship’s deck, saw the Statue of Liberty welcoming her to America. Read more

  Posted on 28 January 2025 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Shithole Country

  

  Trump’s inaugural speech bloviated that he’ll restore America’s greatness. Then he did something throwing it in the toilet.Pardoning 1500 criminals imprisoned i... Read more

  Posted on 25 January 2025 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Floridazation of America

  

  “Florida Man” heading a news story has become a byword for some really crazy stuff going down. Now Bloomberg columnist Mary Ellen Klas writes of this as... Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2025 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• A Review of a (Sensational) Review

  

  Even if you don’t think you’re into poetry, here’s a must read for you.It’s by poet Therese L. Broderick in Vox Populi, an online magazine — reviewing “Unlockin... Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2025 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Ephemeral Quandary of Existence: A Philosophical Exploration

  

  (See “Important Notice” Below)Existence, as a construct, perpetually oscillates within the ontological spectrum of being and non-being. Read more

  Posted on 18 January 2025 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY