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• Blog Termination Rescinded

  

  DONALD J. TRUMP@RealDonald Trump Frank Robinson and myself had a very good meeting, really really terrific. We showed him a video how great it could be for him... Read more

  Posted on 15 June 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Reader Poll: Trump’s Top-100 Hit Parade

  

  What is Trump’s greatest hit (upon America)? Find below a top-100 list. Vote for your selection, in the comments section. Feel free to add other items, since... Read more

  Posted on 11 June 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown

  

  Envy is something deeply embedded in the human condition. It comes from the kinds of minds evolution endowed us with. Alone among animals, we are able to... Read more

  Posted on 10 June 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Cynthia Nixon for Governor — What is Wrong with “progressives”

  

  I switched enrollment from Republican to Democrat when the GOP went off the rails, to the dark side; I wanted to use my primary vote to keep at least one party... Read more

  Posted on 08 June 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Code Red: Guest Column by Thomas Friedman

  

  I’m not one for reblogging and sharing what others say, preferring my own words. But I’m making an exception for Thomas Friedman’s May 29 column, which expresse... Read more

  Posted on 05 June 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Are Smartphones Bad for Kids?

  

  One of the earliest ancient inscriptions has been translated as reading, “Kids today don’t behave well or respect their elders like they used to.”This essay... Read more

  Posted on 03 June 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Trump’s “spygate” — Biggest Scandal in Political History

  

  In a personal conversation, journalist Lesley Stahl asked Trump why he says bad things about the press. He answered candidly: “I do it to discredit you all and... Read more

  Posted on 31 May 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Suffer the Little Children: America’s Crime Against Humanity

  

  Remember when “for the children” was a staple of political discourse?The Trump administration is now implementing a policy of taking children away from... Read more

  Posted on 28 May 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Burned Alive in Venezuela

  

  I have strong beliefs. I know many people with different strong beliefs. I don’t lean left, but most who do are good people, sincere in wanting human progress.... Read more

  Posted on 25 May 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Leaker-in-chief Condemns Leakers

  

  The uncanny pattern continues: every insult, accusation or smear Trump flings at others applies more to him than to them.Now he’s fuming against leaks and... Read more

  Posted on 21 May 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Adventures with Technology

  

  Turning on the TV, we’d see a gal from cable company Spectrum talking about the all-digital story. I’d click past her, thinking we were all set with a big moder... Read more

  Posted on 19 May 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Stories We Tell Ourselves

  

  Why do people accept little pieces of paper in exchange for goods and services? The paper has no intrinsic value. U.S. currency used to carry a government... Read more

  Posted on 14 May 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Iraq Revisited — Rising from the Ashes?

  

  Iraq holds parliamentary elections today.Conventional wisdom calls the Iraq War an unmitigated disaster rooted in lies about weapons of mass destruction.I had... Read more

  Posted on 12 May 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Malaysia’s Election Shocker: Good Defeats Evil

  

  In today’s world, with democracy eroding in so many countries, it’s great to see one go the other way. To see some voters, at least, stand up for democratic... Read more

  Posted on 10 May 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The War Between the Scouts

  

  Poor Boy Scouts. First they struggled over whether to allow gays in. Now they’re allowing girls too, and changing their name, from Boy Scouts of America to... Read more

  Posted on 09 May 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Good and Evil — Khizr Khan’s Book

  

  Good and evil. Such black-and-white Manichaeanism is so unfashionable. Isn’t everything shades of grey — the color of sophisticated thinking?Not always.This is... Read more

  Posted on 06 May 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• A Nobel for Trump?

  

  Some credit Trump’s bluster with getting Kim Jong Un to negotiate (hence the Nobel Prize chatter). Or did Kim, instead, see Trump’s behavior as creating an... Read more

  Posted on 03 May 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Homegoing, by Yaa Gyasi — Not the Best Book I Ever Read

  

  The blurbs: “powerful,” “blazing,” “devastating,” “spellbinding,” dazzling,” “epic,” “luminous,” “spectacular,” “hypnotic.” This debut novel by Ghana-born Gyasi... Read more

  Posted on 01 May 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• China: the Dragon Breathes Fire

  

  Diocletian reformed the coinage tooThe Roman Empire had a chaotic patch in the Third Century; most reigns were brief and ended violently. Read more

  Posted on 27 April 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Visiting Sunny Tropical Iceland

  

  Years back we made the mistake of visiting Washington, D.C., over Christmas. It was bitterly cold. I vowed no more icy vacations!My wife’s windblown selfieSo... Read more

  Posted on 23 April 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY