Reading time – 4:27; Viewing time – 6:36 . . . Throughout his candidacy President Trump promised to “drain the swamp,” the fetid, stinking hole of Washington DC that had betrayed ordinary Americans. He railed against insiders, the people who made DC worthy of disdain. Then he populated his cabinet with Goldman Sachs banksters. You… [read more]
Reading time – 3:51 seconds; Viewing time – 5:57 . . . The press is under attack, and rightly so, according to Donald Trump. He has let us know in no uncertain terms and repeatedly that those in “the media” are dishonest – so dishonest – they lie. I’m guessing that “he’s been hearing” that… [read more]
Reading time – 2:42; Viewing time – 3:46 . . . Thomas Edsall has done it again. He’s helped us to understand the Trump thing, answering questions that seem so very perplexing. I referred to Edsall last month to help us to understand why people voted for Donald Trump. No, they aren’t all racists and… [read more]
Reading time 3:29; Viewing time – 6:07 . . . He trundled out his list of astonishingly unqualified candidates for cabinet posts, at least three of whom have previously vowed to eliminate the agencies they would now oversee. His chief strategist is a white supremacist, alt-right bigot and Trump has put him on the National… [read more]
Reading time – 1:56; Viewing time – 3:48 . . . I’ve been in dialogue with a small group of smart people, many of whom read and contribute to this series. They have offered great clarity and insight and have pushed me to refine what I now see as the key question of our time…. [read more]
Reading time – 2:55; Viewing time – 5:35 . . . We need a good and optimistic start for the new year. That message is for next week. Let’s first establish in a blinding flash of the obvious and in a compelling way why we need that good and optimistic start. You don’t need a… [read more]
Reading time – 1:49 plus 44 seconds for the Bonus Section; Viewing time – 2:31 . . . Timothy Snyder is a professor of history at Yale University and he penned a most interesting essay in the New York Times entitled How a Russian Fascist Is Meddling in America’s Election. It is a worthwhile read… [read more]
Reading time – 3.5 minutes; viewing time – 8:15 . . . Necessary preface: This offering has been scheduled for quite a while and has been pushed back until today because of more pressing issues. Now we have a most pressing issue, the unholy slaughter of innocents in Paris on Friday night. Almost oddly, that… [read more]
Pollution is an ordinary part of manufacturing. For example, those shiny, chrome plated gizmos like your ballpoint pen and the reflectors of the tail lights of your car are bathed in toxic chrome when they are made and they drip chrome into the water that rinses them. Capturing that residual chrome is much more expensive… [read more]
