Reading time – 1:31; Viewing time – 3:00 . . . What do you suppose the reflection in Escher’s sphere would look like to Donald Trump, were he holding it? Surely, he would describe the image with superlatives, but that’s neither useful nor is it new information; neither is it important. The far more important… [read more]
A Final Love Note to Bernie Supporters
Reading time – 1:55; Viewing time – 3:21 . . . Dr. Jill Stein’s initiative for an election recount is in process as of this writing. Regardless of the outcome of that process, what follows remains true. Let’s leave aside issues around whether the Democratic primary was fixed and even your notions of who had… [read more]
Some Answers and a Pinch
Reading time – 2:15; Viewing time – 3:23 . . . In the midst of your shock, grief and whatever else you felt following the 2016 general election, perhaps you questioned what you can do to mitigate the damage that is likely to be done, based upon the pledges of cruelty and the crushing of… [read more]
To the Woodshed
Reading time – 49 seconds; Viewing time – 1:42 . . . Andrew Young was the United States Ambassador to the United Nations under President Jimmy Carter. He was an active and passionate leader for civil rights and was the first African-American to hold that ambassadorial position. Young created a bit of controversy when he… [read more]
Answers
Reading time: 2:20; Viewing time – 4:00 . . . I’ve been wrong. I’ve been short-sighted and reactionary and embarrassingly foolish. The embarrassment is because I know better. Something didn’t feel right and then I read Nick Kristoff’s A 12-Step Program for Responding to President-Elect Trump and it was then – at step #3 –… [read more]
The Clouds Are Gathering
Reading time – 1:57; Viewing time – 3:25 . . . Trump lied? Say it isn’t so! Actually, Politifact rated Trump 19% Mostly False, 34% False and 17% Pants-On-Fire False, for a total of 70% lies. Yeah, he lied. It’s a habit with this guy. And he continues to lie. On Friday he claimed credit… [read more]
Guest Essay: And So It Begins
Preface Euphemism: a mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt . . . Apple Dictionary e.g. Alt-Right – same as white supremacist, as in neo-Nazi, Ku Klux Klan and Posse Comitatus. Steve Bannon of Alt-Right Breitbart.com is now installed as Chief White House strategist and senior advisor… [read more]
First They Came
Reading time – 1:22; Viewing time – 2:32 . . . “First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out because I was not a Socialist. “Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out because I was not a Trade Unionist. “Then they came for the Jews,… [read more]
Sleeplessness
Reading time – 57 seconds . . . I am bewildered – terrified of what this megalomaniac might do with both houses of Congress in his lap. The Iran nuclear deal, NATO, the Middle-East – so much may be undone or destructively overdone that can shatter the tenuous grasp of world stability that this man… [read more]
One Last Time
Reading time – 1:42; Viewing time – 3:19 . . . Okay, one last time. Donald Trump talks glibly about the use of nuclear weapons on whomever he might think of as our enemy, like those he thinks pose an existential threat to America because of a tweet that’s critical of him. And he has… [read more]
