Wildfires, Climate Change, and How Bad Arguments Damage Good Ones
Seems I’m alienating people again and I wonder why, since it seems to me, I’m saying what they said not long ago to Climate Change deniers.
Happy Hannukah—Commemorating the Chasing Out of the Greek King
I’m starting to think that Hannukah, although based on something historical is one of those holidays drafted into service of later needs or other peoples.
It Ain’t Over ’till the Fat Man Sinks
It’s easy to see the defection of Christianity Today as a positive thing for America. After all Evangelicals are Donald Trump’s biggest voting block.
Religion: We Are Either A Secular State Or We Are Not
Brazil is constitutionally a secular state but there, as here, the truth is slippery. Insulting religion or religious people can have consequences
Trump Wants To Mark Jews For ‘Special Handling’
I’ve had a passport since I was 15. It is a United States Passport and there have been a couple of times I carried it the way I wear a life jacket.
The Creep, A Smack On the Butt, and A Race In Georgia
I sit down and switch on my tablet looking to get a progress report on the dissolution of the United States and find something more outrageous than Trump.
Let’s Have Enough with the Tesla Already
Knowing better, I clicked on some ad talking about something found underneath Niagara falls that “the scientists” didn’t want us to know.
Millennials: Blame It on the Boomers
“OK Boomer” It’s the MAGA of the Millennials. It’s the “what have you done for me lately?” of the upcoming generation.
Please Don’t Call it Thanksgiving
Sunrise, Florida—it’s up against the Eastern boundary of the Everglades and west of Fort Lauderdale. Not a bad place to hold that rally.
A Cyber Truck—What the F*ck?
Someone as old as I am, who remembers when trucks were for commercial use – for hauling things and stuff and even cars, can get confused.
The Power of Fox News: Hell Calls To Hell
“Don’t forget the power of Fox, by morning it will all not have happened” I said. “It all will mean the opposite.” It will all mean the opposite.
Living In the Top 10 Fattest States—Whose Fault Is It You Are Fat?
Love of sweet drinks is cited as a reason the top ten outweighs the mostly Southern rest of us, but I think there’s more to it.
Taking Out al Baghdadi and the Shame of Donald Trump
Several things occurred to me a while ago, watching the CNN coverage of His Lardship proclaiming his personal and glorious victory.
Good People In the Lynch Mob—No Good People In the Courtroom
The term lynch mob may derive from the American War of Independence and a Charles Lynch, a Virginia planter who set up kangaroo courts.