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• Charmaghz: Aiding Education in Afghanistan

  

  Do you have difficulty deciding on charities to support?It’s actually, I’ve found, a tough challenge. So many worthy organizations around. Or are there? Read more

  Posted on 05 July 2024 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Supreme Court, Presidential Immunity, and the Implacable Tide

  

  “There is a tide in the affairs of men,” said my last posting, about the presidential debate, quoting Shakespeare. The debate debacle one more episode in what... Read more

  Posted on 02 July 2024 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Debate Debacle: Biden Should Withdraw

  

  Watching the debate, I thought that if I were a blank slate, without background knowledge and understanding, I’d vote for Trump. Tragically, that does largely... Read more

  Posted on 29 June 2024 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Election and the Media

  

  Responsible mainstream media are a last line of defense against a firestorm of craziness engulfing us. But not much of a defense, it seems. Read more

  Posted on 25 June 2024 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• “The Plot Against America”

  

  That’s the title of a Philip Roth novel, an “alternative history” imagining us going fascist in the 1940s. It’s perhaps a more serious book than The Breast,... Read more

  Posted on 22 June 2024 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Earthrise

  

  William Anders died June 7, at 90, when a plane he was piloting crashed. He was the astronaut responsible for probably the most famous photograph of all time:... Read more

  Posted on 19 June 2024 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Deglobalization

  

  (This, slightly edited, was a commentary recently published in the Albany Times-Union)Artificial intelligence. Climate change. Gaza and Ukraine wars. All Big... Read more

  Posted on 15 June 2024 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Believers — Defended by a Nonbeliever

  

  A friend urged me to read anthropologist Melvin Konner’s 2019 book, Believers. Its subtitle, Faith in Human Nature, has two meanings, readable together as the... Read more

  Posted on 11 June 2024 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The War on Rule of Law

  

  This is a very big deal. Republicans say Trump’s felony conviction is a blot on our justice system, a partisan persecution. Suppose for a moment they’re right.... Read more

  Posted on 07 June 2024 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• CrazyLand

  

  “As regards Trump, it’s quite obvious that the effective removal of political opponents by all lawful and unlawful means is going on, and the whole world can se... Read more

  Posted on 03 June 2024 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• La Commedia è Finita — ??

  

  For nine effing years this one man has fixated national attention like no other in our history. Just what his deranged ego craves.When in 2015, Mr. Read more

  Posted on 31 May 2024 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Albany’s Greek Festival Gone Wild

  

  Our town’s long had an annual Greek Festival. The kind of multiculturalism I love about this country — not separationist but inclusivist, Greek-Americans... Read more

  Posted on 27 May 2024 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Social is Political

  

  Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte (2016-22) was a nasty vulgar man devoid of redeeming qualities. His signature policy was murdering anyone even suspected... Read more

  Posted on 24 May 2024 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Is Xi Jinping a Robot?

  

  By a certain age one’s character is often writ into one’s face. Just looking at Trump’s you should see what he is. And look at Hitler’s speeches. Putin’s... Read more

  Posted on 21 May 2024 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Me, My Wife, and 3 Amigos

  

  This picture is not an AI or photoshop creation. My wife Therese and I attended the big March 28 Democratic fundraiser at New York’s Radio City Music Hall (wher... Read more

  Posted on 18 May 2024 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• It’s the Culture Stupid

  

  “It’s the economy stupid,” decreed James Carville, Bill Clinton’s 1990s campaign guru — a line that became a staple of our politics, saying it’s the economy tha... Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2024 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The British Post Office Scandal: How Not to Handle One

  

  “The worst miscarriage of justice in British history,” it’s been called — “an affront to justice.” Hundreds of innocent people convicted on false evidence. Not ... Read more

  Posted on 12 May 2024 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Why Not a Trump-Trump Ticket?

  

  The ass-kissing wannabees for Trump’s running mate —like Elise Stefanik, Tim Scott — even Marjorie Taylor Jewish Space Laser Greene — are making a ludicrous... Read more

  Posted on 10 May 2024 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Campus Protests and Radical Chic

  

  Israel’s Gaza atrocities unfolded over months with scarcely a whimper of campus protest. Then suddenly all hell broke loose. Why now?Well, the weather is nicer... Read more

  Posted on 07 May 2024 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Artificial Intelligence Explains There’s No God

  

  ChatGPT, a leading Artificial Intelligence entity, is very easy to use. Just google it, go to the site, and sign up: very simple and free. Then there’s a box... Read more

  Posted on 03 May 2024 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY