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• 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

• Blog Termination Rescinded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