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• Climate: We’re Cooked

  

  Like the proverbial frog in the pot whose temperature slowly rises.Yes (sigh) this is about climate change. But please read it anyway, it may provide some... Read more

  Posted on 13 November 2022 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Election — Not the End of Civilization — Yet

  

  Well, the worst was averted. Hailed as a victory by Democrats and President Biden, now suddenly politically rejuvenated. Sanity prevailed — in a lot of places a... Read more

  Posted on 10 November 2022 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Political Attack Ads: Bad for You, Bad for America

  

  When America’s descent into idiocracy is chronicled, there will be a chapter on political advertising.We keep seeing laments about campaigns growing costlier. Read more

  Posted on 08 November 2022 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• America’s Appointment in Samarra

  

  An old Arab parable: In Baghdad’s marketplace, a man’s servant finds himself eyed ominously by a figure he recognizes as Death. To escape his fate, he’ll ride... Read more

  Posted on 06 November 2022 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Iran: Theocracy Hypocrisy

  

  Decrying Iran’s tyranny, and rooting for the women protesters, is facile. But two points:One, Iran is seemingly a special case among the world’s dictatorships... Read more

  Posted on 04 November 2022 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Herschel Walker and the Character Issue

  

  The 2006 film Idiocracy’s premise was dimbulbs procreating like rabbits, producing a dumb population. Imagine the kind of people they elect. Read more

  Posted on 02 November 2022 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Pelosi Attack

  

  Okay, one swallow does not a summer make, nor one nutjob’s violence a holocaust. But it’s one more signpost on our downward road.David DePape was a Trumpian... Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2022 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Right Track, Wrong Track: I Lied

  

  I lied, to a pollster. Asked the iconic “right track/wrong track” question, I said America is on the right track. Because my truthful answer would redound... Read more

  Posted on 29 October 2022 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Ukraine: Russia’s Dirty Bomb Warning

  

  Russia’s Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has warned that Ukraine will use a “dirty bomb.” That’s a conventional explosive that spews radioactive contamination. Read more

  Posted on 26 October 2022 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Chinese Exceptionalism: the Mandate of Heaven, and Political Legitimacy

  

  Xi Jinping has started a third term as China’s ruler.Not “elected.” While democracy has achieved such moral cachet that even the worst dictators (like Putin)... Read more

  Posted on 23 October 2022 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Max Boot on Trump Derangement Syndrome

  

  “Trump derangement syndrome” is invoked by his fans gleeful at his driving opponents nuts. Of course, those opponents are entirely rational; it’s Trumpers... Read more

  Posted on 19 October 2022 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Seeing “Hamilton” in London

  

  Calling London an international city is inadequate. It’s like a city with no nationality at all; no native tongue, everyone speaking their own.“Does anyone spea... Read more

  Posted on 17 October 2022 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Bad Parents and Politics

  

  Bad parent memoirs are a big literary genre. Recently I read a very different kind of book, about guided psychedelic experiences. Many who undergo them have... Read more

  Posted on 14 October 2022 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question

  

  What does it really mean to be morally good? Michael Schur actually created a TV show exploring this question — a comedy in fact! His personal quest for... Read more

  Posted on 06 October 2022 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Crime and Policing

  

  Crime is rising! People always think this. But in fact crime rates hit a peak in the early ’90s (though nowhere near earlier epochs), and then fell inexorably... Read more

  Posted on 03 October 2022 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Ukraine: How Does This End?

  

  The wanton, callous destruction, death, and suffering sear the soul.Having denied that Russia’s Ukraine aggression is a “war,” Putin now denies that it’s going... Read more

  Posted on 29 September 2022 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• “If the Guy Had Done Anything Wrong, It Would Have Come out by Now”

  

  He now says he declassified the documents in his mind, just by thinking it, no sort of “process” being necessary. Also that the FBI, in its judicially authorize... Read more

  Posted on 26 September 2022 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Worst Candidate I’ll Have Ever Voted For

  

  Last winter, New York State’s government bought 52 million Covid test kits for $637 million, or $12.25 each. Right after, California (with a bigger population)... Read more

  Posted on 24 September 2022 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor . . .

  

  So Governor Abbott grabs human beings — mothers and children, who have already suffered horrific ordeals fleeing nightmares in places like Venezuela — and puts... Read more

  Posted on 21 September 2022 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• My Birthday Gift – A Marriage Culture

  

  For my recent 75th birthday — in a addition to a cake, a new cushion for my outdoor recliner, a mermaid sculpture, a piece of furniture, and a mess of... Read more

  Posted on 19 September 2022 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY