The border wall and other domestic policy obsessions of the president and the Mueller investigation of Russian influence in his campaign and life are not separate matters, as so much of the media coverage presents it. Here’s the relevant presumption: To the extent the self-evident and increasingly irrefutable fact of […]
National Commentary
Falwell Jr.’s Evil Defense of Trump
I am not a Catholic, except in the lower-case “c” sense of “all encompassing,” but I was moved by the homily delivered by Pope Francis on Christmas Eve about the “the food of life” that mankind is offered by the Nativity, the purpose of life, as it were, being “not […]
Yes, Donald, There Is a Santa Claus
The world got a glimpse into what went wrong with Donald Trump at a very young age this week that contributes to our understanding of his sociopathic personality. It came this week in his telephone conversation with a seven-year-old from South Carolina on Christmas Eve. Trump asked the child, “Are […]
The Great Transition: Progress on New Sources of Energy
Unless humanity replaces fossil fuels in the next couple of decades, it is almost certain that the latter part of the 21st century and beyond is going to be a very unpleasant era in which to live. For the past 200 years, much of the world has prospered greatly from […]
‘Entanglement Theory’ & Things Unseen
“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” This famous quote by Shakespeare from “Hamlet” is frequently used to account for the unexplainable. Surely, we live now in an “age of reason,” despite the fact that our current president is anything but […]
‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ Was Deemed Subversive
It’s not, as they say, rocket science. Anyone who can calculate the outcome of last month’s midterm elections has notice. The outside number for House seats to flip from Republican to Democrat was 40, and “realistic” predictions were in the 20-25 range. It took awhile for all the votes to […]
The Great Energy Transition: Our Climate vs. Fossil Fuels
The past month has seen the release of two major reports on climate change, each sounding yet another alarm that if we don’t replace fossil fuels soon, there is unprecedented disaster ahead. One report came from the UN and was authored by many of the world’s leading climate scientists. The […]
Mueller’s RICO Method Closes in On ‘Kingpin’
Maybe Donald Trump should have stayed in Argentina. The revelations of the past week in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s sentencing documents pertaining to Trump personal lawyer and confidant Michael Cohen and Trump’s chief national security advisor Michael Flynn signal a huge escalation of the probe into the President’s collusion with […]
Yes, It Was a Blue Tsunami
Kicking off the holiday season with a couple clever lines pulled off Twitter, one being, “Any Christian church that says migrants should not be allowed to seek asylum in America should take down their Nativity scenes.” The other says, “Rather than putting ‘Christ’ back in ‘Christmas,’ I’d settle for putting […]
Conformity & The Holidays
A reminder that as we enter into “the Holidays,” that everyone’s experience of them is not as sugar-coated as many may like to believe. For many who need room to grow in their lives, breaking out of behavior patterns and expectations developed in their childhoods, family gatherings can be a […]
