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• The Scandalous Sochi Olympics: Medals for Disgrace and Bullshit

  

  An Olympic gold medal was always one of my fantasies. Standing up there, while our majestic national anthem is played – what a supreme moment! But, at 65, that... Read more

  Posted on 04 September 2013 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• McDonald’s and Supersized Wages

  

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  Posted on 30 August 2013 BUSINESS, CULTURE, ECONOMICS, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Syria: Moral Obscenity

  

  Secretary of State Kerry calls the poison gas attack a “moral obscenity.” Were the previous 100,000 deaths, cities bombed to rubble, 2 million refugees, and... Read more

  Posted on 28 August 2013 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• “On The Muslim Question” – Or Avoiding It

  

  Anne Norton’s On The Muslim Question is one of the worst books I’ve ever read.A foreword says it’s “free of academic jargon and cultural studies clichés.” I... Read more

  Posted on 25 August 2013 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Can We Stop America’s Decline?

  

  I’ve written about “Pakistan: The F**ked-Up Country.” America’s no Pakistan. But it sure is frustrating for optimists. Like Thomas Friedman and Michael... Read more

  Posted on 15 August 2013 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Orphan Master’s Son

  

  You know those dystopian portrayals of imaginary future societies (1984, Soylent Green, etc.), dark and creepy. Adam Johnson’s novel The Orphan Master’s Son is... Read more

  Posted on 12 August 2013 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Slime of Zimbabwe

  

  This is supposed to be an optimist blog. And I recently wrote a very positive piece about Africa. But Zimbabwe continues to veer between tragedy and farce. Read more

  Posted on 09 August 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Motown Blues and the Bonfire of Liberal Vanities

  

  The biggest city bankruptcy ever, Detroit’s, is a shocker – or not. Inevitable, really. Detroit lost its signature industry (mostly) and with it over 60% of... Read more

  Posted on 05 August 2013 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Who Are the Real Drug Criminals?

  

  In the great scheme of things, this story in our local paper may not seem like a big deal. But I found it very disturbing.Donald Andrews ran a “smoke shop” in... Read more

  Posted on 03 August 2013 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Weiner, Spitzer, and Other Shameful Characters

  

  OK, so I can’t pass up this topic.For my extraterrestrial readers, Eliot Spitzer, former governor who resigned in a prostitution scandal, and Anthony Weiner,... Read more

  Posted on 30 July 2013 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• How We Can Be Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise

  

  Each month’s employment report tells us which economic sectors show job growth. And usually leading the pack is healthcare.What’s wrong with this picture? Read more

  Posted on 26 July 2013 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Subluxation Poetry

  

  I am pleased to report that my beloved wife, Therese L. Broderick, is the author of Dislodged: Poems for My Mother’s Weeks of Subluxation.* It is a lovely... Read more

  Posted on 24 July 2013 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Citizen Windsor

  

  We heartily extend congratulations and good wishes to William and Kate on the birth of their son, heir to a throne on which we pray he’ll never sit. Read more

  Posted on 22 July 2013 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Giddy Up

  

  That’s the name of a new local bus company, profiled in our paper’s business section. Not the kind of story I’d normally read, but it was a lazy day. And this... Read more

  Posted on 20 July 2013 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Charles Murray, “Real Education,” and Inequality

  

  Charles Murray co-authored the controversial book, The Bell Curve. In Real Education, he criticizes the whole “no child left behind” idea as harmful romanticism... Read more

  Posted on 17 July 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Our Depraved Sick Society, and the George Zimmerman Verdict

  

  Following is a complete verbatim AP story from our 7/12 local paper:POLICE: MAN CRASHED KID’S PIZZA PARTYSEATTLE – Seattle Police say they arrested a man who... Read more

  Posted on 16 July 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Christopher Hitchens: The Man Who Left the Left

  

  “Left-wing,” “socialist,” “Marxist,” and “Trotskyite” are not words that ordinarily endear a memoirist to me, and Christopher Hitchens so described himself in... Read more

  Posted on 12 July 2013 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Human Future: Upgrade Or Replacement?

  

  I recently had a featured article in The Humanist magazine. Here’s a link; and a condensed summary:A computer can be upgraded by adding memory, or a whizzier... Read more

  Posted on 07 July 2013 POLITICS, SCIENCE, SOCIETY, TECH

• Egypt: A Very Democratic Coup

  

  Nobody is more pro-democracy than me. But I must confess a grudging soft spot for a force that can tell a president, “You’ve been a total dick-head and screw-up... Read more

  Posted on 05 July 2013 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Democracy in Albany

  

  The other night I attended a “meet-the-candidate” at a private home, for Albany mayoral hopeful Kathy Sheehan. (I’d already been to one, but this second... Read more

  Posted on 03 July 2013 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY