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• Why Are Trumpsuckers So Manipulable?

  

  We evolved as an extraordinarily social species, with group cooperation a key adaptation. Of course every animal looks out for itself, to get its genes into... Read more

  Posted on 07 October 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Presidential Covidiocy

  

  In the debate, Trump mocked Biden’s mask-wearing, as he’s done continuously. Trump was probably already infected. He also denigrated Biden’s intelligence. Who... Read more

  Posted on 04 October 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Mortimer Adler: Ten Philosophical “Mistakes”

  

  Mortimer Adler (1902-2001) was an American philosophy impresario. His shtick was promoting philosophy to the masses, at least the intelligent masses. Read more

  Posted on 03 October 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Debate: Trump’s Demons out of Control

  

  Trump is actually exceptionally intelligent. His glibness, ability to spin the blarney, is prodigious. Unfortunately, he is also mentally ill.One commentator... Read more

  Posted on 30 September 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Trump’s Plan: “Get Rid of the Ballots”

  

  Trump is very clear. He says he wants the Supreme Court vacancy filled before Nov. 3, because he sees the election being decided by the court (not voters). He... Read more

  Posted on 27 September 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Mychal Denzel Smith’s Revolution: Radical Left Magical Thinking

  

  I was shouting at the TV while watching with my wife The Daily Show’s Trevor Noah interview Mychal Denzel Smith (right), author of Stakes is High. Read more

  Posted on 25 September 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• John Lewis and the “Beloved Community”

  

  One of my book groups read John Lewis’s 1998 autobiography, Walking With the Wind. He’s long been a hero to me.The subtitle is A Memoir of the Movement,... Read more

  Posted on 23 September 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Ginsburg Seat: into the Abyss

  

  We were already at Armageddon. Pandemic and economic collapse, schools closed, racial turmoil, and our political tribalism climaxing with the most divisive and... Read more

  Posted on 20 September 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Rhapsody in Blue

  

  I’m no music buff. But being human I enjoy music; mainly music inspiring positive emotion. Often supplying my own words to go with it.I visit New York City for ... Read more

  Posted on 17 September 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Trump’s Depravity Explained by His Psychologist Niece

  

  There’s been much psychoanalysis of Trump. Though his depravity seems obvious to any objective observer, supporters dismiss that as baseless partisan slander.... Read more

  Posted on 13 September 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Economics and Sex

  

  (NOTE: the following was actually written before the pandemic (I have a backlog). Question for discussion: how is this analysis altered, if at all, by the new... Read more

  Posted on 10 September 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• My Beautiful Birthday Brunch Buffet

  

  I’ve always loved food buffets — being able to taste many different flavors. (Maybe my welcoming immigration is psychologically related.) One of the reasons I’v... Read more

  Posted on 08 September 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Darwin’s Apostles and Evolutionary Science: Fighting “fake News”

  

  Dr. Abby Hafer has her doctorate in zoology from Oxford University and currently teaches at Curry College. She has authored the book Unintelligent Design,... Read more

  Posted on 07 September 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• “I’m Not Making This Up” — Dave Barry’s Greatest Hits

  

  This book was in my cupboard for years — okay, decades. I noticed it was published during the Reagan administration when I pulled it out and decided to read... Read more

  Posted on 04 September 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Schizophrenic Anti-reality Convention

  

  Schizophrenia is characterized by disconnect between aspects of one’s personality; between reality and what’s in one’s brain.Today’s Republican party, the... Read more

  Posted on 01 September 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Political Violence: Thinking About the Unthinkable

  

  It’s December 13, 2020. Trump’s been crushingly defeated, Democrats have won the Senate — and Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died.Just three weeks of lame duck... Read more

  Posted on 27 August 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• American Dirt

  

  Jeanine Cummins’s novel American Dirt begins with a bang. Literally. A gunshot. Then a lot more.It’s a quinceañera party, in Acapulco. The massacre’s cause: a... Read more

  Posted on 25 August 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Political Insanity Round up

  

  While several commentators on a CNN panel lauded Biden’s superb speech Thursday night, stressing the character chasm between the candidates, the Republican Scot... Read more

  Posted on 23 August 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• One Country, Two Planets

  

  For half a century I would watch Republican conventions and feel reminded of what my Republicanism meant.This week’s Democratic convention reminded me of... Read more

  Posted on 21 August 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Belarus Crisis

  

  Belarus (once known as “White Russia;” capital Minsk) is a European former Soviet republic becoming independent with the USSR’s 1991 collapse. In 1994, Alexande... Read more

  Posted on 20 August 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY