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• Leadership Lessons: How (not) to Get Girls

  

  Governor Andrew Cuomo hungered for feminine companionship. I can relate to that. All his power and glory may not cut it for him without a woman in the picture.... Read more

  Posted on 10 April 2021 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Minneapolis Trial — What Kind of Nation Are We?

  

  “All men are created equal.” The Supreme Court pediment proclaims “Equal Justice Under Law.” The Constitution begins, “We the people.”We’ve had four years of... Read more

  Posted on 08 April 2021 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• GOP Online Fundraising Reveals a Dishonest, Depraved and Dangerous Party

  

  In 2016 I gave Marco Rubio a small donation. Last year, far more to Democrats. Yet it’s Republican fundraising emails that continue to flood my inbox. On one... Read more

  Posted on 05 April 2021 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Belief in God is Morally Wrong

  

  In May 2019, Attorney General William Barr, in a speech at Notre Dame, thundered that America is undergoing a moral apocalypse. Which he blamed on irreligion an... Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2021 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Freedom of Speech and Lies

  

  “Are Jews hidden in your attic?” You answer with a lie.Kant had a categorical take on morality, with lying considered always wrong. Read more

  Posted on 28 March 2021 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Richard Dawkins’s 80th Birthday Party

  

  Richard Dawkins is one of my intellectual heroes. I was thrilled to be invited to his 80th birthday party, on zoom, with about twenty others; hosted by Robyn... Read more

  Posted on 25 March 2021 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Europe’s Covidiocy

  

  During 2020, Europe put America to shame regarding Covid, as our president willfully refused to treat it seriously, even encouraging flouting precautions, surel... Read more

  Posted on 23 March 2021 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Cancel Culture and “The Human Stain”

  

  Coleman Silk was a dynamo college dean who put his school on the map. Now he’s teaching a classics seminar; two students enrolled therein have never attended.... Read more

  Posted on 20 March 2021 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• How to Write a Blog

  

  I think about things. About what’s happening in the world, my life, things I read, etc. Being exposed to much thought-provoking content, it literally provokes... Read more

  Posted on 17 March 2021 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The British Royals: Netflix’s “The Crown”

  

  “The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred ready to ride them.”Jefferson wrote that in his last... Read more

  Posted on 11 March 2021 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Republican War on Voting Rights

  

  Republicans are a minority party. Winning the presidential popular vote only once (and then barely) since 1988. Their weakness masked by the electoral college... Read more

  Posted on 08 March 2021 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• “The Statue”— My Short Story Video

  

  My tale, “The Statue,” was a winner in the Hudson Valley Writers Guild’s recent short story contest. Originally written around fifty years ago, it might have... Read more

  Posted on 07 March 2021 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Status Cuomo

  

  Saying “Sorry if someone was offended” is not an apology. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s first accuser, Lindsey Boylan, might have been shrugged off. I’d... Read more

  Posted on 04 March 2021 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Insane Republican Religious Cult

  

  I’d love to forget Trump ever existed. But Republicans won’t; despite January 6, Trumpier than ever. Kind of circling the wagons around him.Seventeen GOP... Read more

  Posted on 01 March 2021 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Understanding History’s Meaning

  

  (My Black History Month essay)America is a divided country — two sides seeing things very differently. Naturally enough that includes history. Interpreting the... Read more

  Posted on 26 February 2021 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Get Your Shot — Please

  

  Millions around the country struggle with non-user-friendly systems, desperately trying to schedule their covid vaccinations. While millions of others refuse th... Read more

  Posted on 22 February 2021 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• End the Filibuster

  

  I previously wrote that Democrats, in power, should refrain from exercising it in ways that might look illegitimate — that is, like Republicans have. Read more

  Posted on 20 February 2021 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• My Zoom Short Story Reading Saturday 1 PM

  Hi,At 1 PM tomorrow, Saturday, Feb. 20, on zoom, The Hudson Valley Writers Guild will have public readings of three prize winning short stories from its recent... Read more

  Posted on 19 February 2021 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Plague

  

  It starts with rats, coming out, bloodily dying, all over. Of course it’s the plague. Literally; the Bubonic Plague, the Black Death that devastated Europe in... Read more

  Posted on 17 February 2021 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Biden’s “Buy American” Mistake

  

  Trumpers persist in caricaturing President Biden as some kind of mentally defective fool. One Facebook graphic even denying that such a man could have gotten... Read more

  Posted on 15 February 2021 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY