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• The March for Science

  

  Quiz #1 — Who made this statement about Saturday’s march for science: “Rigorous science depends not on ideology but on a spirit of honest inquiry and robust... Read more

  Posted on 24 April 2017 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Coin Collecting

  

  Sartre called coin collecting a hobby for dull old men. Well, I started collecting as a dull young man 60 years ago. I’ve been selling coins too, for more than... Read more

  Posted on 22 April 2017 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Turkey’s Tragedy. France Next?

  

  Yet another bad day for optimists and believers in progress. It really feels like the lights are going out.Turkey matters, a lot. Read more

  Posted on 17 April 2017 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Big Picture – a Sound Viewpoint on Life and the World

  

  Physicist Sean Carroll has written The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself. It sets out a philosophy or worldview which he... Read more

  Posted on 12 April 2017 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Syria Strike

  

  Having been a relentless critic of Trump, I will give the Devil his due. I approve of the Syrian airstrike. I’m glad it was done.President Obama’s passivity on... Read more

  Posted on 08 April 2017 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Trump’s Foreign Policy: a Feckless Fog of Foolishness

  

  You know the slogans: America first. Make America great again. No more playing patsy for other countries.The reality: the opposite.But this, like all... Read more

  Posted on 05 April 2017 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Sympathizer, by Viet Thanh Nguyen

  

  What is more precious than freedom and independence?The answer: nothing.But this has a sardonic double meaning; and that’s key to The Sympathizer, Viet Thanh... Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2017 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Gorsuch Hearings: American Exceptionalism

  

  Amid all the dispiriting news from Washington lately, I listened to much of Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch ‘s appearance before the Senate Judiciary... Read more

  Posted on 29 March 2017 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Health Care Debacle

  

  Have you finally had it yet — with the incompetence and dysfunction; the war on truth; the conflicts of interest; the irresponsibility; the ties to Russia’s... Read more

  Posted on 26 March 2017 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show

  

  My wife Therese had the idea of going to the gem, mineral, and fossil show held at the State Museum. To humor her, I agreed, though this isn’t really my thing.... Read more

  Posted on 24 March 2017 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Health Care Travesty

  

  For seven years, Republicans pursued Obamacare with the obsessiveness of Captain Ahab pursuing the white whale. Now they resemble a dog chasing a car, and... Read more

  Posted on 21 March 2017 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Post-Truth Politics, Post-democratic Politics

  

  (This was published as a commentary in the March 12 Albany Times-Union)“Post-truth” has been named word of the year. The subject looms large for America’s... Read more

  Posted on 17 March 2017 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Paterson: the Poem Film

  

  We recently saw two films in a row featuring Abbott and Costello.Those were the names given the aliens in Arrival. And in Paterson we even get a little of “Who’... Read more

  Posted on 13 March 2017 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The French Election Sex Drama

  

  HollandeI have written snarkily about French politics. (Not that today’s U.S. politics is to brag about.) I considered Socialist President Hollande ridiculous... Read more

  Posted on 10 March 2017 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The President is Insane

  

  So he was able to read a nice speech from a teleprompter and appear “presidential.” Then he tweeted that President Obama had tapped his phones at Trump Tower an... Read more

  Posted on 06 March 2017 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The ICE Man Cometh

  

  This title was unavoidable. ICE stands for Immigration and Customs Enforcement. I have long referred to it as our Gestapo. And that was before Trump. Under... Read more

  Posted on 04 March 2017 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Trumpism Reveals Religious Right’s Moral Bankruptcy

  

  Their support for Trump starkly proves the moral fraudulence of the religious right — those fundamentalist bible-thumpers with their in-your-face Christianity... Read more

  Posted on 28 February 2017 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• A Stroke of Insight

  

  It’s said that a key to happiness is gratitude for what you have. I am extremely grateful for my brain. Not that mine is so special; all human brains are. Read more

  Posted on 25 February 2017 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Melania Sues a Blogger: the Trumps, Libel Laws, and the Media

  

  First Lady Melania Trump sued a Maryland blogger for $150 million for libel, and he reportedly settled by paying her a “substantial sum.” Such cases are commonl... Read more

  Posted on 21 February 2017 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Selling Girls in Afghanistan

  

  You’re a thirteen year old girl, in Afghanistan, when your father sells you to a warlord as his fourth wife; with two of your sisters thrown into the deal, for... Read more

  Posted on 19 February 2017 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY