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• The United States House of Reprehensibles — II

  

  Kevin McCarthy was unprincipled, dishonest, contemptible. It’s a rich irony that he lost the House Speakership because for once he actually did the right... Read more

  Posted on 06 October 2023 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Richard Russo: Novelist of the Working Class

  

  Went to the New York State Writers Institute’s shebang with Richard Russo on his new novel. Proud of finding my way directly through the labyrinthine State... Read more

  Posted on 03 October 2023 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Lunar New Year Lunacy

  

  New York has made Lunar New Year a state school holiday. In case you’re from Mars — or, in fact, from most of America or Planet Earth — it’s something celebrate... Read more

  Posted on 30 September 2023 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Poverty By America

  

  Matthew Desmond previously wrote about our housing crisis in Evicted. His 2023 book, Poverty By America, is a broader examination of socio-economic... Read more

  Posted on 26 September 2023 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• My Running Music

  

  Most days I run to the post office for my mail; about a mile; ten minutes. Music helps. Not long ago I happened to run a similar distance but found it puzzlingl... Read more

  Posted on 23 September 2023 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Deep Roots of Religion

  

  My humanist group hosted J. Anderson Thomson, a psychiatrist, speaking about his book, Why We Believe in God(s): A Concise Guide to the Science of Faith. Read more

  Posted on 20 September 2023 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Impeachment II: Ken Paxton: How Morally Depraved Can a Party Be?

  

  Ken Paxton is the Republican Texas Attorney General. Flaunting his blizzard of litigation against the Biden administration. He’d also spearheaded the legally... Read more

  Posted on 17 September 2023 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Impeachment and the True Crime

  

  House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has announced a presidential impeachment process, as the “next logical step,” based on “serious and credible allegations” of Biden’... Read more

  Posted on 14 September 2023 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Dirty Pictures

  

  Child porn cases are often in the news. It creeps me out that anyone could get their jollies from that. But human sexuality is very varied. Read more

  Posted on 11 September 2023 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The BLOAT — Biggest Loser of All Time

  

  Heard a radio report about California’s Shasta County switching from automated to hand counting of election ballots. Ditching their Dominion equipment. The... Read more

  Posted on 08 September 2023 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Of Human Bondage: Harvey Havel’s Wild Whore of Albany

  

  At the last Albany Book Festival, I stopped at a local writers organization table, being manned by poet Mary Panza, a powerful personality. She ordered me to... Read more

  Posted on 04 September 2023 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• “Democrats Will Destroy America”

  

  Democrats will “destroy” America. They want to. This is now a staple of Republican rhetoric.Democrats supposedly want to destroy America because they hate it.... Read more

  Posted on 02 September 2023 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Kiss That __________ (Insert Your Own Over-the-top Metaphor)

  

  Okay, now the internet will blow up demanding my banishment from humanity, civilized or otherwise.For readers on Mars, Spanish Soccer Federation President Luis... Read more

  Posted on 29 August 2023 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Does Religion Increase Happiness?

  

  My local humanist group hosted a presentation by Ryan Cragun, a sociologist with a flair for statistics, talking about studies purporting to find correlations... Read more

  Posted on 26 August 2023 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• About Online “Influencers” — Hey, People, Get a Life

  

  “Social media influencer” Kai Cenat, 21, recently caused a big riot in New York City. Ever heard of him? Me neither. But he’s got 6-1/2 million followers on... Read more

  Posted on 23 August 2023 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• John Bolton Eviscerates Trump

  

  John Bolton’s book, The Room Where it Happened, chronicles his time as Trump’s national security advisor. Not pretty.Bolton had wide-ranging foreign policy... Read more

  Posted on 19 August 2023 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Life is Good

  

  Flew to Pittsburgh for the American Numismatic Association convention — big annual coin show. Would have preferred to do just one full day, but the flights... Read more

  Posted on 15 August 2023 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Profiles in Ignorance

  

  An Xmas gift from a family member was Andy Borowitz’s 2022 book, Profiles in Ignorance: How America’s Politicians Got Dumb and Dumber. Easy to see why they... Read more

  Posted on 11 August 2023 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Kazuo Ishiguru’s Klara and the Sun: What is a Person?

  

  We first meet the narrator of Ishiguru’s 2021 novel, Klara and the Sun, on display in a store window. She’s an “AF” — Artificial Friend. A robot. Read more

  Posted on 08 August 2023 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Trump and Trumpism — the Final Word

  

  Trump calls his latest indictment, for January 6, a political hit-job, with a “deranged” prosecutor trying to interfere with the 2024 election. The reality is... Read more

  Posted on 04 August 2023 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY