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• For Women Only

  

  My wife has attended an annual writers’ retreat in Indiana. Now she’s been invited to a “girls only” gathering of former attendees. She was very critical. I... Read more

  Posted on 24 August 2017 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Eclipsed

  

  Me, viewing eclipseWith all the pre-eclipse coverage, I somehow initially didn’t grasp there’d be much to see here in Albany, NY, quite far from the totality... Read more

  Posted on 22 August 2017 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Bonobo and the Atheist

  

  Our closest biological relatives are chimpanzees. They’re not as cute as you might think; often nasty and violent. How nice then to have discovered the bonobo... Read more

  Posted on 20 August 2017 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• White Supremacists, neo-Nazis, and the President They Love

  

  When white supremacists march with Nazi swastika flags, and one of them, an avowed Hitler flan, intentionally kills and injures counter-demonstrators, the... Read more

  Posted on 17 August 2017 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Feminist PC Thought Police Strikes Again: the Damore Memo

  

  Google engineer James Damore wrote a memo titled “Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber,” criticizing the company for suppressing honest discussion about why women... Read more

  Posted on 16 August 2017 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Groupthink in the Divided States of America

  

  I remember, on Election Night 2008, when the result was declared, a middle-aged black woman in Chicago jumping up and down crying, “God bless America! God... Read more

  Posted on 12 August 2017 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• North Korea: Fear the Madman

  

  We keep hearing about the “madman” in Pyongyang. Is Kim Jong Un bad? Yes. Mad? Probably not. It’s the guy in D.C. who’s both.Kim doesn’t have to be told that... Read more

  Posted on 10 August 2017 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Venezuela’s Tragedy: Be Careful How You Vote

  

  Chavez his mentorIt began in 1992 when paratrooper Hugo Chavez tried a military coup. He failed and was jailed, but vowed he wasn’t done. Released, in 1999... Read more

  Posted on 08 August 2017 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• 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