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The Rational Optimist
http://www.rationaloptimist.wordpress.com/
Commentary of Life, Society, Politics, and Philosophy
LATEST ARTICLES ( 1396 )
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UFO Abductions and America’s Reality Crisis
People on America’s right are in thorough reality denial. Headlined of course by the 2020 “stolen election” lie. False beliefs about Covid and vaccines cost man... Read more
Posted on 23 January 2023 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
China’s Covid Catastrophe
When Covid began three years ago in Wuhan, China’s regime acted ruthlessly to contain it, with draconian lockdown, testing, and quarantining rules. Read more
Posted on 19 January 2023 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Political Double Standards, Whataboutism, and Classified Documents
Promoting my “Trump Shitstorm” book has been an interesting experience. When I show it to someone, the cover usually provokes a strong reaction. Read more
Posted on 16 January 2023 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Judge LaSalle and the Left’s Performative Politics
Governor Hochul has nominated Brooklyn Judge Hector LaSalle for New York’s Chief Justice, headlining this as the first Latino in that post.Such ethnicization... Read more
Posted on 13 January 2023 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Biden at the Border: Democrats and Immigration
President Biden has now made a show of visiting the southern border. The one promise he made to me personally in 2020 was to end Trump’s cruel war on refugees... Read more
Posted on 09 January 2023 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
My Book Talk, “The Trump Shitstorm,” SAT. JAN. 14, 3 PM
Hi,You’re invited to a talk and open discussion on my new book, THE AMERICAN CRISIS: Chronicling and Confronting the TRUMP SHITSTORM — 3 PM, next SATURDAY,... Read more
Posted on 08 January 2023 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
The United States House of Reprehensibles
I kept warning that voters giving Congressional power to these Republicans would be insane.Kevin McCarthy is a reprehensible character, totally self-serving... Read more
Posted on 06 January 2023 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Blacks Go Back to Africa
“Go Back to Africa!” the marchers chanted, shaking their torches. “Go Back to Africa!” their signs declared.One small detail they overlooked. Black Americans’... Read more
Posted on 03 January 2023 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
An Artificial Intelligence Rebuts Me!
I’ve been rebutted by an Artificial Intelligence bot.My nephew, Ben Broderick Phillips, works for Microsoft, with Artificial Intelligence (AI) within his... Read more
Posted on 30 December 2022 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Trumpery Recap
His tax returns have finally been made public, after a years-long legal battle. What was he hiding? The New York Times already reported in 2020 that he’d been... Read more
Posted on 26 December 2022 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Reunifications and Republicans
Germany had long been divided, by a physical wall. It was opened, on November 9, 1989, and I’ll never forget seeing East Germans literally whooping with joy to... Read more
Posted on 22 December 2022 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
The Supreme Court and Affirmative Action
The way to stop racial discrimination, Chief Justice Roberts has said, “is to stop discriminating by race.”The Supreme Court will yet again revisit affirmative... Read more
Posted on 18 December 2022 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Ai Weiwei and Bono on Art and Capitalism
No word triggers more nonsense thinking than “capitalism.” For centuries, when Christianity reigned, the ubiquitous bogeyman was Satan. As that superstition... Read more
Posted on 14 December 2022 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Myanmar’s Agony: “The Road Not Taken”
“The Road Not Taken” is a film (created on an iPhone) by Ko Pauk, of Myanmar (Burma), illustrating the country’s situation. My wife and I were invited to a... Read more
Posted on 11 December 2022 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
What Does Ancestry Mean?
My wife was intrigued by a statistician’s writing that if you go back 3400 years, we’re all related. Not actually surprising if you think about it. Read more
Posted on 07 December 2022 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Epicurianism for Today: Freedom and Happiness
At a humanist meeting there was some pamphlet including a list of worthy thinkers. My friend Peter Delivorias remarked upon the omission of Epicurus. Read more
Posted on 01 December 2022 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
My New Book — The American Crisis: Chronicling and Confronting the Trump...
The American Crisis: Chronicling and Confronting the Trump Shitstorm, by Frank S. Robinson; Verity Press International; 247 pages; $12.95 (+ $4 shipping in USA)... Read more
Posted on 27 November 2022 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
How to Play With Your Food
Who could resist that book title found at a yard sale? More, the authors were Penn & Teller — renowned magicians and outspoken advocates for reason against... Read more
Posted on 25 November 2022 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Witch Hunts Past and Present
I’ve written about the Western world’s witch burning craze during the 15th-18th centuries.* Recently I’ve read more on the subject in a book by Martin Harris,... Read more
Posted on 19 November 2022 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
The Curse of the Undead: Trump Declares Candidacy Again
What a shocker. And with a meandering stream-of-consciousness speech predictably full of lies and howlers.After January 6, it almost looked like Republicans... Read more
Posted on 16 November 2022 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY