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• 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

• Handicapping 2020

  

  Ninety-three candidates seek the Democratic presidential nomination. A slight exaggeration. But it’s a lot of them.Many don’t really expect to win. But as the N... Read more

  Posted on 02 February 2019 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Consciousness, Self, and Free Will

  

  What does it really mean to be conscious? To experience things? To have a self? And does that self really make choices and decisions?I have wrestled with these... Read more

  Posted on 29 January 2019 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Trump Trumped

  

  While posturing as proud to announce a deal, that was typical Trump bullshit. In fact he totally capitulated. Got nothing. Not a thing more than was offered 35... Read more

  Posted on 26 January 2019 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Shutdown, Hostages, and Humanitarian Crises

  

  Let’s see if I have this straight. The government is partly shut down because Congress can’t pass a bill authorizing the employees’ salaries. But they could... Read more

  Posted on 24 January 2019 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Steve King, Trump, and the Republican White Nationalist Party

  

  The sky has fallen on Iowa Republican Congressman Steve “Cantaloupes” King for the latest in his long train of racist rantings. “White nationalist, white... Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2019 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Sholem Aleichem and My Jewish Roots and American Identity

  

  We watched a PBS documentary about Yiddish writer Sholem Aleichem (1859-1916) — making me ponder what I feel as my personal identity. Read more

  Posted on 18 January 2019 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Facebook: the Monster Destroying Civilization

  

  First it was Facebook as an addictive time sink; substituting for life in the actual world; even ruining marriages. But all that was in a more innocent time. No... Read more

  Posted on 13 January 2019 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY