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• Wear a Mask — Please

  

  It’s not something being forced on you. It’s being asked of you. For your own health and safety, and everyone around you. Nobody has “freedom” to do as they... Read more

  Posted on 27 January 2021 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Trump’s Great New Idea: the Patriot Party

  

  QAnoners called it “The Storm.” The long-awaited gotterdammerung when heroic Trump would at last spring his trap and destroy the insidious Satanic deep-state... Read more

  Posted on 24 January 2021 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Alexei Navalny: Courageous Hero

  

  In a world full of cynicism and falsehood, Alexei Navalny stands out as a true hero for the ages.Long Vladimir Putin’s chief nemesis, with space for political... Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2021 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• January 20: America’s Light Rekindled

  

  The only presidential inauguration I ever got an engraved invitation to was Nixon’s in 1969. I didn’t go. Covid sidelining Biden’s was a big disappointment. Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2021 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Cult of the Leader: Khomeini, Hitler, Big Brother, Trump

  

  The news photo was unnerving. Trump’s January 6 rally — with three big screens looming over the crowd, imaging the center of his face, colored deep red, eyes... Read more

  Posted on 19 January 2021 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Free Speech and America’s Escalating Crisis of Trumpist Insanity

  

  Trump’s 2016 election put America, and what it represents, into a crisis that has only escalated. Every time we think we’ve seen the bottom, we’re proven wrong. Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2021 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Caste: America’s Deep Problem

  

  Isabel Wilkerson’s book The Warmth of Other Suns, about Blacks leaving the Jim Crow South, was inspiring. Her new book Caste is dispiriting. Read more

  Posted on 14 January 2021 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Deadliest Sin: Arrogance

  

  One of the traditional “seven deadly sins” is pride. But that’s actually not the right word.Most of those “sins” have unambiguous meanings — sloth, gluttony,... Read more

  Posted on 10 January 2021 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• January 6, 2021 — A Date Which Will Live in Infamy

  

  Today, January 6, 2021 — a date which will live in infamy — the United States was attacked — by an insurrectionary mob storming the capitol — and by over 100... Read more

  Posted on 07 January 2021 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Crime and Punishment in America

  

  Cheryl Roberts is an ex-Judge, currently serving as Executive Director of the Greenburger Center for Social and Criminal Justice, as well as corporation... Read more

  Posted on 05 January 2021 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Rick Burns, Democracy in Action, and My Coming of Age

  

  I saw a January 1 obituary for a Richard “Rick” Burns, and it pricked a distant memory. I wasn’t even sure I had the name correct. Read more

  Posted on 03 January 2021 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Gofundme for Somaliland Rape and Torture Victim

  

  Cawo, a Somaliland medical student, while living with a host family in order to pursue her university studies, was stalked by a relative of that family, who... Read more

  Posted on 02 January 2021 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Farewell 2020

  

  (We had a zoomed family holiday poetry slam. Here’s my poem.)2020 Farewell,A year from Hell;A year of years,Of fears and tears. Read more

  Posted on 01 January 2021 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• 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