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• Witch Hunt Politics

  

  Now the backlash. Accusing the accusers. Trump calling them “evil” and “treasonous.” Retribution time. A real witch-hunt. David Brooks says Adam Schiff, John... Read more

  Posted on 28 March 2019 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Bizarro America

  

  Black is white and white is blackCriminals are innocent, accusers guiltyTraitors are patriots, and patriots treasonousLies are telling it like it is, And facts... Read more

  Posted on 27 March 2019 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• What the Mueller Report Does Not Say

  

  Exultant Republican Trump worshippers are dancing in the streets and blowing their Trumpy-trumpets, gleefully rubbing in the faces of their Democrat... Read more

  Posted on 25 March 2019 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• A Modest Proposal: Microchipping Children

  

  During our recent Iceland trip we learned they keep track of sheep using implanted microchips. We were familiar with this idea, since our cats have microchips i... Read more

  Posted on 22 March 2019 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Trump Threatens Political Violence

  

  My wife and I watched “The Dictator’s Playbook,” a PBS TV series, each episode profiling one of history’s worst dictators, and analyzing their methods for... Read more

  Posted on 20 March 2019 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Szukalski: the Glory and Strangeness of the Human Experience

  

  We stumbled upon this fantastical Netflix documentary: Struggle — The Life and Lost Art of Szukalski.Glenn Bray stumbled upon a fantastical volume in a bookstor... Read more

  Posted on 18 March 2019 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Comments Reflecting Racism and Partisan Blindness

  

  Two years ago, my blog post titled “Why so many blacks in ads?” discussed this as a cultural phenomenon. It became my most visited post ever, with over 27,000... Read more

  Posted on 15 March 2019 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Ilhan Omar, Israel, Anti-semitism, Politics, and BDS

  

  Newly elected Minnesota Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar caused a furor when saying some politicians support Israel because of money from the Jewish lobby. Read more

  Posted on 12 March 2019 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• My Surrealist Art

  

  Albany’s Opalka Gallery (part of Sage College) hosts occasional “Pecha Kucha” nights. A wonderful event, with a bunch of presenters each talking about a series... Read more

  Posted on 10 March 2019 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Irrationality in the U.S. Coin Market

  

  This is posted mainly for my numismatic friends. It concerns crazy high prices being paid for coins based on increments of condition perfection that are actuall... Read more

  Posted on 09 March 2019 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• How Democrats in 2020 Can Make America Great Again

  

  Democratic presidential hopefuls are scrambling to get right with the left — the party’s left-wing activist ideologues. Free college, Medicare for all, jobs... Read more

  Posted on 06 March 2019 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Making America Great Again Chapter 896

  

  Otto Warmbier, American student, visiting North Korea. Propaganda poster in his hotel, thought it would make a cool souvenir. For this, tortured to death.Kim... Read more

  Posted on 03 March 2019 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• “A Racist . . . a Con Man . . . a Cheat”

  

  Old news — to anyone paying attention.Yet Republicans continue denial of reality. Evolution, climate change, and Trump’s moral depravity. Despite their... Read more

  Posted on 01 March 2019 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Truth About Vaccines, Autism, Measles, and Other Illnesses

  

  The left derides the right for science denialism, on evolution and climate change. But many on the left have their own science blind spots, on GM foods and... Read more

  Posted on 26 February 2019 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Pachinko by Min Jin Lee — a Novel of Identity

  

  Min Jin LeeI read this 2017 novel for a book group. A nice thing about such groups is exposure to rewarding reads you’d never otherwise pick up.Japan occupied... Read more

  Posted on 23 February 2019 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Green New Deal

  

  Green Nude EelIt’s green. It’s new. And it’s a deal. What’s not to like?Ah, the power of words. These three do make for a potent combo that’s caught the... Read more

  Posted on 18 February 2019 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Sex, Religion, and Perversion

  

  It started with civilization’s Middle Eastern beginnings, with the idea not that sex is dirty, exactly, but that afterwards you had to cleanse yourself, as... Read more

  Posted on 14 February 2019 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Crime and Punishment and Sense and Sensibility

  

  Liberals oppose the death penalty. They’re really not even comfortable with the idea of punishment — “an eye for an eye makes the world blind.” Instead,... Read more

  Posted on 10 February 2019 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• JCOPE — “Public Ethics?”

  

  New York State has a “Joint Commission on Public Ethics.” It was created by the “Public Integrity Reform Act,” to “restore public trust in government. Read more

  Posted on 09 February 2019 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Evolution by Natural Selection is a Fact

  

  My recent “free will” essay prompted some comments about evolution (on the Times-Union blog site.) One invoked (at verbose length) the old “watchmaker” argument. Read more

  Posted on 05 February 2019 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY