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• QAnon and the Republican War on Reality

  

  “QAnon” is the handle of an online person or group claiming access to all kinds of secret information (“Q” refers to a high security clearance) about “deep... Read more

  Posted on 05 August 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Mitch Landrieu and Confederate Monuments

  

  Mitch Landrieu was mayor of New Orleans, 2010-18. In 2015 he started the process of removing Confederate monuments. Landrieu expected opposition, but its... Read more

  Posted on 02 August 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Pascal’s Wager

  

  Assume 50-50 odds of God existing or not. Which way should you bet? With your afterlife, that is. This is “Pascal’s wager.”Blaise Pascal was a 17th century... Read more

  Posted on 30 July 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Democrats’ Divide

  

  Many Democrats insist they mustn’t be namby-pamby, but instead run as full-throated unapologetic “progressives” — as tax-the-rich class and social justice... Read more

  Posted on 27 July 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• What is Happiness?

  

  There is no bigger question. After all, what is the point of life? I’ve authored a book titled Life, Liberty, and Happiness, arguing that ultimately the only... Read more

  Posted on 24 July 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Joint Statement by ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, and CNN

  

  For Release July 21, 2018We have always taken with utmost seriousness our responsibility to the American people to inform them truthfully, accurately, and... Read more

  Posted on 21 July 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Would and Wouldn’t

  

  Back in my PSC days, a telephone company witness filed prepared testimony containing a huge blunder. On the stand, he said to delete the entire paragraph.... Read more

  Posted on 19 July 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Trump’s Treason

  

  Recently at the G7 meeting in Canada, Trump played skunk at the picnic, refused to sign the agreed communique, and called Canada’s prime minister a... Read more

  Posted on 17 July 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• King Zog

  

  Knowing nothing about the story, except vaguely its strangeness, out of simple curiosity I picked up this biography, King Zog, by Jason Tomes.Albania was an... Read more

  Posted on 15 July 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• China’s Xinjiang: “1984” Meets the Gulag

  

  Xinjiang is China’s northwest province, home of the Muslim ethnic Uighurs (“wee-gurs”). Also home to a vast gulag of “re-education” camps — hundreds or... Read more

  Posted on 12 July 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• How to Become a Nazi

  

  You’re a nurse, and a doctor instructs you, by phone, to give his patient 20 Mg of a certain drug. The bottle clearly says 10 Mg is the maximum allowable daily... Read more

  Posted on 10 July 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Civility Issue

  

  Actor Robert DeNiro shouts “Fuck Trump!” Comedians Samantha Bee and Kathy Griffin, respectively, call Ivanka a “cunt” and pose with a (fake) severed Trump head. Read more

  Posted on 07 July 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• (Part II) Conservative Or Republican?

  

  MillThe political philosophy called “liberal” originated in 19th century Britain, with thinkers like John Stuart Mill; it stood for individual human... Read more

  Posted on 04 July 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Grotesque Odious Party (Part I)

  

  Recently on the NewsHour it was noted that Trump’s approval percentage among Republicans has reached record highs. “Yeah,” I said to myself, “because people lik... Read more

  Posted on 02 July 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Luck and Life

  

  I’m a very lucky man, having (at 70) health, wealth, love, and wisdom.WAMC radio’s Joe Donahue interviewed Janice Kaplan about her book, How Luck Happens:... Read more

  Posted on 29 June 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Are Humans Smarter Than (other) Animals?

  

  Around 1900, “Clever Hans” was a famous German horse with seeming mathematical ability. Asked “what is four times three?” Hans would tap his hoof twelve times. Read more

  Posted on 27 June 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Modern Life: the Big Challenge We Face

  

  Tom Friedman’s latest book made my head spin. It’s Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist’s Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations. He’s a bigger... Read more

  Posted on 23 June 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Fear and Loathing in the Sultan’s Court: The Mapmaker’s Daughter

  

  A twelve year old Venetian girl is grabbed as a slave, from her home island, and carried off to Constantinople, capital of the Ottoman Empire, in the 1500s. Read more

  Posted on 20 June 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Breath Debt — Poems by Therese L. Broderick

  

  (Page Publishing, 91 pages, $12.95 + 2.50 shipping; order from author, Box 8600, Albany, NY 12208 or Paypal to [email protected]; also purchasable from Amazon... Read more

  Posted on 19 June 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Concentration Camps. In 2018. In America. For Children.

  

  “First they came for the Jews . . . “Eighty years ago, on the deck of ship passing the Statue of Liberty, stood my mother, a refugee from the Nazis. Read more

  Posted on 16 June 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY