Reading time – 74 seconds; Viewing time – 2:28 . . . This is personal. Genetically speaking, you’re exactly the same as humans were 20,000 years ago. Back then humans were perfectly constructed for their living conditions, as they subsisted on grains, nuts, fruits, vegetables, water and a little protein when they managed to hunt… [read more]
This is Troubling
Reading time – 47 seconds; Viewing time – 1:44 . . . Donald Trump to Reshape Image, New Campaign Chief Tells G.O.P. That’s the headline of an article in The New York Times. Hillary Clinton Tacks Left with Wall Street Crackdown, headlined The Financial Times. Trump Says He Can Be More Presidential than Anyone Except… [read more]
National Courage
Reading time – 2:10 – Viewing time – 5:29 . . . When there were just one billion people (about 1804), this planet was able to tolerate a lot of abuse in various forms of pollution, including fouling of lakes and rivers, putting toxic gasses into the air and dumping nasty materials into the ground…. [read more]
Stop Obsessing About the How – v2.0
Reading time – 2:01; Viewing time – . . . Last month I explained that challenging the presidential contenders to the throne on how they would accomplish the things they say they will do is folly, but we keep hearing such useless challenges. Indeed, cable news picked up the story from the April 1 interview… [read more]
What If It’s Worse?
Reading time – 61 seconds; Viewing time – 2:08 . . . Hanion’s Razor: “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity, but don’t rule out malice”. Robert J. Hanion I’m going around the country and presenting my program, Money, Politics & Democracy: You Aren’t Getting What You Want, and I never… [read more]
Pruning
Reading time – 69 seconds; Viewing time – 2:53 . . . Pundits and non-pundits alike have been continuously baffled, as Trump has brayed out his fact-less, mean-spirited, anti-Constitutional idiocies. Why don’t people abandon him as he proves yet again that he hasn’t a thought in his head, other than promoting Trump? That seemed to… [read more]
Coca-Cola
Reading time – 82 seconds; Viewing time – 2:16 . . . It is such a relief – relief, I tell you – that our beloved country is at last post-racial. Yes, the stain of slavery and racism is at last behind us, as we walk white-hand-in-black-hand-in-brown-hand through the golden meadow, singing the 1971 Coca… [read more]
Potpourri v1.0
Reading time – 2:07; Viewing time – 5:21 . . . A while back Paul Ryan offered an updated version of his budget plan that would at last make our national economy whole, solid and debt free. The only problem with his plan is that it will not make our national economy whole, solid or… [read more]
Edward R. Murrow Was Right
Reading time – 46 seconds; Viewing time – 2:46 . . . Said Edward R. Murrow, “Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn’t mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.” Imagine if Donald Trump understood that. Or Ted Cruz. Or Mitch McConnell or Chuck… [read more]
Carole King
Reading time – 51 seconds; Viewing time – 1:57 . . . It’s well established brain science that the human amygdala, often referred to as the “reptile brain,” responsible for physical survival, is a most powerful and primitive driver of human behavior. It is responsible for the fight-or-flight response. There is no moral compass in… [read more]
