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• Covid Relief: Can We Get Our Heads Straight?

  

  Besides killing a third of a million Americans, sickening many millions, and disrupting our lives and metal health, the pandemic has been economically... Read more

  Posted on 30 December 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• George Will: What is Conservatism?

  

  American “conservatism” has become a perverted travesty of its former self. Writer George Will, in his book, The Conservative Sensibility, offers a bracing... Read more

  Posted on 27 December 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Trump’s Latest Criminal Pardons

  

  In 2007, four Blackwater organization operatives, working on contract for the U.S. military in Iraq, committed what by all accounts was an unprovoked and... Read more

  Posted on 24 December 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Airplane! Don’t Call Me Shirley

  

  Remember when you got a full meal on domestic flights? When you’d board a plane with no security line? When female flight attendants were called “stewardesses”... Read more

  Posted on 23 December 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• For Trump Disease, There’s No Vaccine

  

  WAMC, the local NPR station, has a morning “roundtable” of journalists and others discussing the news. In 2015 it became the Trump roundtable; even while his... Read more

  Posted on 20 December 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Can You Love Multiple Partners?

  

  Having multiple sex partners is common enough. But what about love?This was a question discussed at a social gathering; an intellectual group. Earlier we’d... Read more

  Posted on 17 December 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• A Christian Asks Christian Trumpers: “What in God’s Name Are You Doing?”

  

  Kathryn Shihadah wrote this piece (11/15/20) on patheos.com, a religion site. My humanist society’s newsletter reprinted it. I found it quite powerful too, and... Read more

  Posted on 15 December 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Police Reform: a Conservative Issue

  

  A recent local TV discussion included some Black activists and Albany’s police chief and other officials. The big takeaway was insufficient police accountabilit... Read more

  Posted on 13 December 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• America’s Sanity Crisis

  

  Though just 51% voted for Biden, I’d hoped his election might dispel the fog of insanity gripping most of the rest. But so far if anything it’s... Read more

  Posted on 09 December 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Where the Crawdads Sing (Big Spoiler Alert)

  

  My local paper publishes the NY Times bestseller list weekly, which I glance at. Where the Crawdads Sing, a novel by Delia Owens, topped it forever. Owens is a... Read more

  Posted on 08 December 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Understanding Trump Voters #386: the Personal is Political

  

  Like half the country, I’ve spent four years struggling to understand how the other half could vote for Trump. It seems insane.A piece on medium.com by Jeff... Read more

  Posted on 05 December 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Supreme Court’s Religious Crusade

  

  Robyn Blumner is a lawyer, CEO of the Center for Inquiry, and head of the Richard Dawkins Foundation. I recently heard her speak about the assault on... Read more

  Posted on 03 December 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Russell Baker: “There’s a Country in My Cellar”

  

  Russell Baker (1925-2019) was a New York Times reporter and then columnist. His book about growing up — titled, oddly enough, Growing Up— was a wonderful read.... Read more

  Posted on 01 December 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The GOP: The Grievance Obsessed Party

  

  I left the Republican party when it stopped being a party of principles and ideals. Becoming instead a party of grievance.The grievances have been economic,... Read more

  Posted on 29 November 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Memo Re: Inaugural Speech

  

  To: Greg Schultz, senior strategist, Biden campaignFrom: Frank S. RobinsonRe: Inaugural addressNov. 9, 2020Hi Greg,Don’t know if you’ll have any input on the... Read more

  Posted on 27 November 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Thanksgiving During a Plague

  

  Perhaps typically, the Thanksgiving holiday’s meaning has gotten somewhat lost. It’s mainly now just an occasion for family gathering and feasting. Actually a... Read more

  Posted on 26 November 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Nordic Theory of Everything: Lessons for America

  

  America is a great country. Not perfect, but striving to improve — its best characteristic.Anu Partanen was a young Finnish reporter, who moved here and was... Read more

  Posted on 24 November 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Covid-19, Trump, Election Integrity, Masks, Schools, and Everything

  

  Covid is surging in virtually every state, worse than ever, a million U.S. infections a week, a quarter million dead and rising fast, hospitals overwhelmed — an... Read more

  Posted on 21 November 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• My Mother’s 100th Birthday

  

  My mother, Lotte Robinson, turned 100 on November 16, and I went to California for the party.Lotte Dreyfuss was born in Nurnberg, Germany. Her father had taken ... Read more

  Posted on 18 November 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Normal People

  

  Sally Rooney’s novel Normal People is about people. No subject fascinates us more. It’s why storytelling arose. Helping us understand the people we live among. Read more

  Posted on 15 November 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY