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• What Einstein Means to Me

  

  Having read Walter Isaacson’s excellent books on Benjamin Franklin and Steve Jobs, I assigned myself his Einstein. Even though, of course, I already knew all... Read more

  Posted on 05 August 2017 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Police State

  

  I’d love to get back to non-political topics. But some things demand comment. By now it’s hard to be shocked by anything Trump. His Boy Scout speech was an utte... Read more

  Posted on 03 August 2017 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Henry Clay and John McCain

  

  In my office hangs an old engraving of Henry Clay. It was no accidental acquisition. About 50 years ago I searched antique shops for it, being a political... Read more

  Posted on 01 August 2017 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Drug War, Mass Incarceration, and Insanity

  

  Ours may be the only society ever with more rapes of males than females.It’s due to prison rapes (with most victims raped repeatedly). This, in practice, is par... Read more

  Posted on 29 July 2017 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Ever Deeper into the Heart of Darkness

  

  Now Trump and his creep team are setting it up to trash special counsel Mueller over “conflicts of interest” (the only arguably legal pretext for removal).The... Read more

  Posted on 25 July 2017 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Yes to a NY Constitutional Convention

  

  New York State’s constitution requires a referendum every 20 years on whether to hold a constitutional convention. It comes up this November. The last time,... Read more

  Posted on 22 July 2017 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Health Care: Let Them Eat Cake

  

  Democrats long caricatured Republicans as the party of tax cuts for the rich and callousness toward everyone else. Now Republicans have been working mightily... Read more

  Posted on 18 July 2017 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Trump and Russia

  

  This is a big deal. A very, very big deal.Thing 1 and Thing 2When Creepo Junior was offered campaign help from a representative of a hostile foreign... Read more

  Posted on 15 July 2017 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• My Psychology Re Trump: Crime and Punishment

  

  This blog might seem to show a Trump obsession — “Trump Derangement Syndrome.” But I have explained that this is not normal politics, it’s a discontinuity,... Read more

  Posted on 13 July 2017 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• “The Fix” — What is Real Leadership?

  

  Jonathan Tepperman’s book The Fix is prefaced with a quote: “Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the... Read more

  Posted on 09 July 2017 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• July 4, Part 2: An Americanism Booster Shot

  

  Every July 4 there’s a ceremony swearing in new citizens at Saratoga National Historical Park. Seeing one was kind of on my bucket list, and I decided this was... Read more

  Posted on 06 July 2017 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• July 4: The Twitter Hymn of the Republic

  

  Mine eyes have seen vainglory in the president’s dumb tweets, He is trampling out the vintage of the grapes of wrath he eats, He hath loosed the feckless... Read more

  Posted on 04 July 2017 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• We Are All Conspiracy Theorists

  

  Rob Brotherton’s Suspicious Minds: Why We Believe Conspiracy Theories starts off saying it won’t be a book cataloguing and debunking them. Instead it aims to... Read more

  Posted on 30 June 2017 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Our Gal in Amman (a Continuing Series)

  

  Our daughter Elizabeth soon starts (another) new job, in Amman, Jordan, as project development officer with Right to Play, a Canada-based organization. She’s... Read more

  Posted on 28 June 2017 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Daily Show: Comedy News Versus Fake News

  

  I’ve written that while Trump complains about the media, and mainstream media is critical of him, it fails to convey just how insane this is. Read more

  Posted on 24 June 2017 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Truth, Decency, Responsibility, Sanity — I Am Now a Democrat

  

  On May 14 I renounced here my 53-year Republican affiliation. I said I couldn’t yet join the Democrats.But now the other shoe has dropped. As I’m fond of saying... Read more

  Posted on 20 June 2017 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• “Cultural Appropriation” (A Trump-free Blog Post)

  

  A white author can’t write about a character who’s black.* A white artist cannot depict a black civil rights victim. And nobody’s allowed to argue otherwise. Read more

  Posted on 18 June 2017 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• America’s Degradation

  

  It always made me sick when anti-Americans (like Noam Chomsky) would smear the U.S. on human rights. Perfect we’ve never been. Read more

  Posted on 15 June 2017 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• My Contribution to Our China Trade Deficit

  

  Our yearly trade deficit with China is around $340 billion and rising. That is, we import from China $340 billion worth of goods more than we export to China. Read more

  Posted on 13 June 2017 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Let’s Recap

  

  The big story, according to Trump and his flacks, is his total vindication by Comey’s testimony that Trump was not under FBI investigation.This is fake news. A... Read more

  Posted on 10 June 2017 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY