Tag: Editorial
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McCarthy’s Mess, or Obstructionism Comes Home
Couple things: (1) obstructionism strikes within it’s own home! (2) this could be a deliberate monkey-wrench maneuver. (3) We do need an investigation of the withdrawal from Afghanistan and our Afghani allies must be brought over and granted citizenship.
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Journalists take note: THIS is how to handle a combed-over narcissist
The NY Post article on that walking comb-over’s little announcement last night is absolutely brilliant.
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Thinking about Capital Punishment with Sophocles’ Antigone
In Sophocles’ Antigone, Kreon does not get off so easy that he gets to die. He has to live with the consequences of his actions, just as every survivor of violent crime has to live with the consequences.
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Two New Anthropoid Species? Brains in Rats, Brains in Computers.
What are the ethical implications of putting human brain cells into a rat or of connecting brain cells to a computer?
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Meanwhile the Everyday Violence of Apartheid in Palestine, Funded by US Tax Dollars
An update on casualties in Palestine as the Iranians try for liberty and western attention remains fixedly on Ukraine.
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This would be hilarious if it weren’t real, or why I can’t stand economists
The reality of our economic situation is terrible. Why can’t economists see it?
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The Evidence on Alex Jones’ Phone
An accidental release by Jones’ lawyer may be exactly the missing evidence necessary to prove the connections pointing to Donny with the Combover.
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I Must Be Confused, or How to read a pie chart: Water Edition
Is it you or is it the systems: water edition.
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Worrying
Setting out some anguish over what has happened to what would’ve been Bernie Sanders’ base of support.
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The mystery isn’t whether Biden is popular; the mystery is why anyone thinks he would be.
This poor guy wanted to be president for over 30 years, gets it, and then becomes one of the least popular presidents in recent history–to no real surprise at all.
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Is It You or Is It The Systems?
An intervention: stop blaming yourself for systemic problems! Instead let’s remake the systems together!
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On Bridges and Trains, or Legitimate Anxiety in the Anthropocene
A metaphor for understanding our times and toward recognizing our climate anxiety and even grief as legitimate expressions of emotion in the face of an unprecedented global destabilization brought about by the last 200 years of the ultra wealthy destroying our planet for their profits.
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Demonizing Oligarchs Won’t Win Elections
Let’s be clear: the times when progressive actions could circumvent the legislature have now ended. In the face of persistent obstructionism by republicans elected to Congress, Obama turned to executive actions and he did what he could with what he had. (For the record, it has not escaped my memory that Donny with the Combover…
Another Neurodivergent Queer Writes A Blog! 