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• Biden’s Extraordinary Nominating Speech: Less is More

  

  I’m a lifelong political junkie. Watched every national convention over 56 years. A connoisseur of the speeches. Key, of course, is the presidential nominating... Read more

  Posted on 19 August 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• 100 Years of Women Voting

  

  Today is the 100th anniversary of the constitutional amendment giving women the vote. That came just eleven weeks before the 1920 presidential election. Read more

  Posted on 18 August 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• George Floyd and That $20 Bill

  

  It all started when a store clerk called police, accusing George Floyd of trying to pass a counterfeit $20 bill. In all the vast Floyd coverage, no one seems... Read more

  Posted on 17 August 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• November Voting: the Coming Train Wreck

  

  Remember “hanging chads” and all that Florida turmoil in November 2000? (Into December, actually.) Now imagine such presidential election chaos not just in one... Read more

  Posted on 15 August 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Big Box of Biden Bling

  

  An unexpected big mystery box arrived. From the Biden campaign (I’m a proud donor). Just for fun I’ve made a still-life picture of the contents: caps, buttons,... Read more

  Posted on 14 August 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Biden and Harris: 46 and 47

  

  A year ago I predicted the ticket of Biden and Harris. I’m thrilled that Biden has done the right thing, as I expected.When in March he pledged to pick a... Read more

  Posted on 12 August 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• “10 Books That Screwed Up The World” — Make That 11

  

  It sounded like my kind of read, found at a used book sale — Benjamin Wiker’s 10 Books That Screwed Up The World. I’d say make it 11, though that would give... Read more

  Posted on 09 August 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Alex Jones, Trump, and the War on Sanity

  

  Hillary Clinton is a serial killer. Worst ever. Chops up children. Literally. So declared Alex Jones on his “Infowars” show.Cuckooland? Surely. Read more

  Posted on 06 August 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• One Child Nation: Chinese Brutalism

  

  Through most of the last century, China was very poor. Exacerbated by conflict and upheaval, and, for the Communist regime’s first three decades, its harebraine... Read more

  Posted on 04 August 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Campaign Briefing

  

  Apparently Trump’s campaign has “gone dark” in Michigan (giving up on the state). Recall that unexpectedly eking out Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin gave... Read more

  Posted on 01 August 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• News Objectivity in the Time of Trump — Telling It Like It is

  

  The New York Times published an “op-ed” by Republican Senator Tom Cotton advocating a military crackdown on protests.Arguably a vile view. Read more

  Posted on 30 July 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Demise of the Dinosaurs

  

  I heard a talk by Frank Wind (pronounced as in “gust of” rather than “wind up”), a retired geologist, on the dinosaur extinction.Frank started by saying Darwin... Read more

  Posted on 29 July 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Yoho, AOC, Trump, and the Degradation of Civic Culture

  

  “Fucking bitch!” he ended with. Following some other choice bons mots, including “disgusting” and “out of your freaking mind.”That was Congressman Ted Yahoo... Read more

  Posted on 27 July 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Reopening Schools

  

  Trump wants schools reopened. Because he cares about kids’ education? (Note, that was a laugh line.) No, of course he cares only about himself, seeing open... Read more

  Posted on 24 July 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Trump’s War Against Law and Order

  

  Having earned the loathing of a big majority of voters, Trump’s last ditch hope for re-election is to pose as the defender of law and order, cracking down on... Read more

  Posted on 23 July 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• What is the Republican Party?

  

  As unfoxed Americans see Trump is a glob of pus larger than Uranus, and the Republican party careens toward massive defeat, some members now say, “I told you... Read more

  Posted on 21 July 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• John Lewis at the Bridge

  

  The Edmund Pettus Bridge, 1965.John Lewis and his fellow marchers on that bridge knew what was coming. Courage is not lack of fear. Only a fool would have been... Read more

  Posted on 19 July 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Race Issue: Reconstruction and Now

  

  “The past is not dead. It’s not even past.” — William FaulknerEric Foner is a leading American historian, who spoke at the New York State Writers Institute’s... Read more

  Posted on 17 July 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Why Pro-life Christians Should Dump Trump

  

  To some Christians, abortion is a primal sin blighting America’s soul. It’s a supervening moral issue guiding their politics; they can’t imagine voting for a... Read more

  Posted on 13 July 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• China Crushes Hong Kong

  

  I could not write this blog in China or Hong Kong. It would be erased from the web — and me along with it, thrown in jail.When Britain agreed to hand Hong Kong... Read more

  Posted on 11 July 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY