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• Believing Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast

  

  NunesThe House Intelligence Committee voted for releasing the memo by its Chairman, Republican Rep. Devin Nunes, attacking the FBI and Department of Justice —... Read more

  Posted on 02 February 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Trump’s Wall of Caca, and DACA

  

  First he lied that Mexico would pay for it. Now he wants $25 billion from U.S. taxpayers as a down-payment on his border wall.The other night on TV I saw a row... Read more

  Posted on 30 January 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Conservatism and Elephants

  

  (This appeared as a commentary in the January 24 Albany Times-Union)I used to call myself a conservative. The left/right divide originated in the French... Read more

  Posted on 28 January 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• China’s Culture of Corruption

  

  We keep hearing how corrupt the U.S. political system is; this fueled the Sanders and Trump revolts. And the problem is real. It’s mainly that political... Read more

  Posted on 25 January 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Why We Need a Free Press

  

  My local paper, the Times-Union, has a terrific columnist, Chris Churchill.* Recently he wrote about the Edson Thevenin case.Thevenin was driving drunk and... Read more

  Posted on 23 January 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Albany Women’s March Against Trump

  

  I went to the local women’s march, at the state capitol. Didn’t relish standing in the cold for two hours during speeches (note to self: next time, double... Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Another Normal Day in the United States of Trump

  

  A “government shutdown” is when the government can’t pay employees for working, so instead pays them for not working.That’s the reality. Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• A Nation of Losers

  

  America has long been embroiled in cultural and ideological wars, which if anything are intensifying. So — who’s winning? Nobody, if you listen to either side. Read more

  Posted on 19 January 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Of Babies and Bathwater

  

  Libertarians tend to be skeptical toward government because it too often uses sledgehammers to kill ants, throws babies out with bathwater, and punishes the man... Read more

  Posted on 16 January 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• BREAKING NEWS: Trump Shoots Woman on 5th Ave

  

  (Associated Press) — President Donald Trump shot a woman on New York’s Fifth Avenue last night. The woman, whose name has not been released, was shot in the foo... Read more

  Posted on 13 January 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Idiocracy: The Death of Expertise

  

  Our pockets hold a device to access all the information in the world. We use it to view cat videos. And while the sum of human knowledge grows hyperbolically,... Read more

  Posted on 09 January 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Paul Auster: Travels in the Scriptorium, The Prisoner of Time, and a Bar Joke

  

  I first read a book by Paul Auster mainly because I’d met his ex-wife (Lydia Davis). But that book, The New York Trilogy, which I’ve reviewed, was great. So the... Read more

  Posted on 06 January 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• I Applaud President Trump!!

  

  President Donald J. Trump signed an executive order yesterday for which I stand up and cheer!His order disbanded the “Voter Fraud Commission” he’d set up at... Read more

  Posted on 04 January 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Mueller Investigation Scandal

  

  The Kremlin has warned the U.S. against meddling in Russia’s presidential election. (Or its rigging; chief Putin opponent and recent acid attack victim Navalny... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2017 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• What is Populism?

  

  “Populism” is the political word du jour. America has its first president so labeled, and “populist” parties are thriving throughout Europe. What exactly does... Read more

  Posted on 28 December 2017 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• America’s State Capture

  

  “The world sees how bad the United States is.” — Donald J. Trump, 2017The tax bill is heralded as Trump’s big legislative win. In fact — having built his fortun... Read more

  Posted on 24 December 2017 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Morality Without God

  

  Believers say that without God we can’t know right from wrong. The problem is: how does God know right from wrong? As Socrates put it, is something good... Read more

  Posted on 20 December 2017 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Founder — What is Business For?

  

  Ray is a middle-aged guy with a history of dicey, failed business schemes. Now he’s on the road pitching a super milk-shake machine to restaurants, promising... Read more

  Posted on 16 December 2017 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Decency Wins in Alabama

  

  How great it feels that the America I love and believe in still lives. Even in Alabama. Even if only by a 50-49 vote.Doug Jones Roy Moore; from The EconomistI... Read more

  Posted on 13 December 2017 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Case of the Gay Wedding Cake

  

  Suppose you’re a portrait artist. It’s your profession. And the local Nazi asks you to paint him. “Get lost,” you say, “I don’t paint Nazis.”“That’s... Read more

  Posted on 09 December 2017 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY