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• God is Testing Christians

  

  Certain Christian loudmouths love saying some natural disaster is God punishing us for “immorality” (usually homosexuality). As if they read his mind. As if the... Read more

  Posted on 08 October 2024 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Finding Margaret Fuller

  

  I’ve written about Maria Popova’s book, Figuring. Among others, it discusses Margaret Fuller (1810-1850), whom I practically fell in love with. Read more

  Posted on 06 October 2024 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Life, Love, Death in Maria Popova’s Book “Figuring”

  

  Found this in my book cupboard with no idea how it got there. A fat 500+ page 2019 paperback from apparently a proper British publisher, but presentationally... Read more

  Posted on 04 October 2024 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• I Learned So Much I Didn’t Know From Vance in the Debate

  

  Did you know that President Trump saved Obamacare? I did not, but was glad to learn this from Vance in the VP debate. You see, Obamacare (the Affordable Care... Read more

  Posted on 02 October 2024 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• This Election: How Is the Chicken Prepared?

  

  That’s the punchline to a joke (which a columnist recently opened with). Airplane passengers are told there are two meal choices: chicken, or a pile of excremen... Read more

  Posted on 01 October 2024 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Zoom Sex

  

  As the pandemic unfolded in 2020, bursting into our lives was a techno-cultural phenomenon called Zoom. It seemed a natural; despite some drawbacks, still a... Read more

  Posted on 28 September 2024 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Great Therese Broderick Book Talk October 1

  

  Noted local poet Therese L. Broderick will present a rollicking review of Alice Fulton’s book, The Nightingales of Troy: Stories of One Family’s Century — At 2... Read more

  Posted on 27 September 2024 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• 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