POST 1107 Odd Humans Upon seeing him on Bill Maher’s program on September 27, I remembered that Yuval Noah Harari is a favorite author of Barack Obama. I just ordered Harari’s book Sapiens and hope to find a little understanding about humans from those pages. My non-scientific, anecdotal observation is that for most of we… [read more]
The Jax Politix Trump Rally Speech
POST 1106 Late Addition: The Debate Opening We Wish Had Happened “Senator, you don’t know me. We just met, so we’re not close friends. I will address you as Senator. You may address me as Governor or Governor Walz. Not Tim. I’m quite sure I’ve earned that respect. “Three years ago you confidently announced that… [read more]
Freedom Of Speech
POST 1105 From the First Amendment: “Congress shall make no law . . . abridging freedom of speech . . .” To be clear, that has nothing to do with whether the owners of social media sites or newspapers can keep us from speaking on their platforms. They can. That has everything to do with… [read more]
Reconsidering
POST 1104 A Little Founding Father Direction From Benjamin Franklin, 1787: “I confess that there are several parts of this constitution which I do not at present approve, but I am not sure I shall never approve them. For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information, or fuller… [read more]
Her Own Best Interests
POST 1103. Brutal Truth The awful day will come. There will be no avoiding it and the now 6-year-old son of Amber Nicole Thurman will hear the brutal truth. He will be told that his mother was cut down by Donald Trump, Gov. Brian Kemp and all the self-righteous bigots who are sure they know… [read more]
Eventually, Trump Will Go Away – But
POST 1102 Congratulations To The Crazies Donald Trump said at the presidential debate, “In Springfield, they’re eating the dogs. The people that came in [Haitian immigrants], they’re eating the cats, they’re eating, they’re eating the pets of the people that live there.” Rolling Stone reported on Thursday, “’City of Springfield received a bomb threat that… [read more]
Potpourri v23.0
POST 1101 The Debate In the spin room following the Trumpocalypse he claimed victory. He was asked again if would he would veto a national abortion bill should he be re-elected. He replied, “It was a perfect answer on abortion, and I’ve done a great job on that, and I’ve brought our country together.” All… [read more]
Ours To Remember
POST 1100 9/11 It’s 23 years since that terrible day. I went there a few weeks afterward and saw the devastation and the thick cloud of toxic dust that the clean up workers were breathing. Some agency of the federal government told them it was safe to breath that air. But the rate of cancers… [read more]
Mental Health Wake Up
POST 1099 CAUTION! THIS IS NOT SNARK . Ugly Truth We all know it’s a mental health thing, right? I mean, who but a mentally sick person would kill two kids and two teachers and wound 9 others? Who but a wacko dad would give an assault rifle to his mentally messed up 14-year-old kid?… [read more]
Here’s The Thing
POST 1098 Tyranny and Freedom We are continually faced with self-serving declarations from over-lord wannabees about some thug patriotism and manipulative, fantabulous claims of victimhood designed to move us to support their un-freedom hell. (Insert here your personal nightmare image here.) Saying this less delicately, there’s a lot of crap being spewed by people hoping… [read more]
