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• Project 2025 Etc. — What’s Really Going On

  

  When “Project 2025” first gained notice, Trump said he knew nothing about it — but disagreed with much of it.Huh? How could he disagree without knowing about... Read more

  Posted on 25 September 2024 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• David Hume Asks Why

  

  I tortured myself by reading The Cambridge Companion to Hume. Or trying to. Hoping to gain some fresh insight.David Hume (1711-76) was a Scottish philosopher.... Read more

  Posted on 23 September 2024 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Chief Justice John Roberts Has a Nightmare

  

  JANUARY 20, 2025:HARRIS: . . . Preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.ROBERTS: So help you God.HARRIS: So help me God.ROBERTS:... Read more

  Posted on 21 September 2024 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Historical Inevitability and Contingency

  

  (This recently appeared, slightly edited, as a commentary in the Albany Times-Union)There is a tide in the affairs of men . . . Read more

  Posted on 19 September 2024 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Republicans Versus Immigrants

  

  Republicans are pushing for a national law requiring voters to prove citizenship. Part of the overall Republican “vote fraud” fraud. Long claiming Democrats... Read more

  Posted on 16 September 2024 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Sudan and a World in Flames

  

  In Myanmar a horrific war pits the army against the populace. We’ve paid too little attention. Especially once attention was riveted by Russia’s horrific war... Read more

  Posted on 14 September 2024 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Debate: Eating Cats and Dogs

  

  Watching it was painful. Like a train wreck. But that, I later realized, said more about me than what was on the screen.I liked Harris’s gallant handshake. And... Read more

  Posted on 12 September 2024 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Politics, Existence, and Self

  

  I might seem obsessed with politics. Especially as this election nears its gotterdammerung.But why? What is truly going on with me? For most people it’s barely ... Read more

  Posted on 08 September 2024 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Civil War

  

  “Human groups from the earliest times to the present have resorted to collective, lethal violence against other groups when prompted by ambition, fear, need or... Read more

  Posted on 05 September 2024 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Malala and Religion

  

  Malala Yousafzai, 15, was shot in the head in 2012, on a school bus, by a Taliban gunman in Pakistan, targeted because she’d become an icon for girls’ education... Read more

  Posted on 02 September 2024 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Trump Campaign: Darker and Sicker

  

  In online image banks one can find many photos of Trump looking nasty or deranged. This shocker, however, came from the Trump campaign itself. Headlining a... Read more

  Posted on 30 August 2024 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• “The Pursuit of Happiness” — What Does America Mean?

  

  What did those words in the Declaration of Independence, the pursuit of happiness, really mean? This is explored in a book with that title by legal scholar... Read more

  Posted on 28 August 2024 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Our Stark Choice

  

  Two roads diverged . . .The two national political conventions made our choice all the starker.I was struck that not a word at the Democratic event rang false.... Read more

  Posted on 25 August 2024 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• In Memoriam: Alice Green

  

  Alice Green, 84, passed away suddenly on Tuesday. She was an Albany monument, fighting the good fight for justice for decades. She was my neighbor and I was... Read more

  Posted on 23 August 2024 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• What Harris Should Promise Tonight

  

  . . . And here is one pledge I most solemnly make to you, my fellow Americans:If my opponent wins this election, I will do what 57 out of 58 previous losing... Read more

  Posted on 22 August 2024 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Why is Democracy an Issue?

  

  China’s rulers jeer at our messy democracy, deeming it more efficient to crack the whip. But being insulated from citizen accountability does not make for good... Read more

  Posted on 21 August 2024 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Colleen Hoover: It Ends With Us

  

  I always glance over the NY Times weekly best-seller list, and started noticing the name Colleen Hoover, new to me. But not only did she make the list — she... Read more

  Posted on 18 August 2024 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Crooked Words

  

  I love words. A big part of my life. At my administrative jaw judge job, creating lengthy documents; authoring books; blogging; and in occasional newspaper... Read more

  Posted on 15 August 2024 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Finding Mariniana in Rosemont

  

  (Reader advisory: some immodesty herein)Last year I wrote about the American Numismatic Association’s big annual coin show in Pittsburgh. Read more

  Posted on 12 August 2024 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Joy Bangla!

  

  That’s the national slogan/war cry of Bangladesh. I remember it from the 1971 war. Bangladesh was originally part of Pakistan — “East Pakistan,” far removed... Read more

  Posted on 09 August 2024 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY