Reading time – 1:43; Viewing time – 3:19 . . . It’s not at all unusual to refrain from contributing to research on, say, Parkinson’s Disease – until your mom’s voice begins to shake and she has trouble getting her hands to do the most ordinary of things. It’s just human nature to have cared… [read more]
What Do You Want?
Reading time – 77 seconds . . . The Coca-Cola company wants you to know that if you drink Cokes, amazingly wonderful things will happen for you. Pepsico wants you to know the same thing, but assures you that it has to be Pepsi. And both of these companies want you to know what really… [read more]
Where?
Reading time – 1:01; Viewing time – 2:41 . . . Uh-oh. Some snark follows. Sensitive readers should squint. What candidates say matters. And to paraphrase Barney Frank, you want your next president to be someone who spends the majority of his/her time on this planet. Well, here’s how Politifact scored the candidates’ claims made… [read more]
Insidious
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]
Not About You Know Who
Reading time – 1:23; Viewing time – 3:01 . . . There is no perfect candidate. There never has been. There never will be. So, here’s a Dr. Phil prescription for your candidate ennui: Get over it. On the one hand, Hillary has very real flaws. On the other hand, Hillary’s list of flaws has… [read more]
Honestly, They Aren’t Idiots
Reading time – 51 seconds; Viewing time – 1:47 . . . A recent Vox essay dug into Donald Trump’s – let’s call it “odd” – speaking style of non-sequiturs, parentheticals, baselessness and departures from any reality common to this planet. Quite often it’s impossible to discern his message from the words used and you… [read more]
Trump Debate Bingo
Reading time – 87 seconds; Viewing time – 2:42 . . . In a snappy article in the New York Times cleverly entitled, A Week of Whoppers From Donald Trump, authors Maggie Haberman and Alexander Burns list a single week’s “. . . blizzard of [Trump’s] falsehoods, exaggerations and outright lies . . .” and… [read more]
About Those Deplorables
Reading time – 1:37 seconds; Viewing time – 2:56 . . . I instantly cringed when I heard Hillary say, “You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right?” There is a difference between the act (saying something deplorable) and the… [read more]
North Carolina
Reading time – 39 seconds; Viewing time – 1:36 . . . I saw Jennifer Roberts, the mayor of Charlotte, NC interviewed by Brian Williams a couple of nights ago and yesterday I found her leading a press conference. She thanked the local police (who conveniently did not have body cameras turned on when they… [read more]
This Spaceship Earth
Reading time – 1:29; Viewing time – 2:34 . . . SPECIAL TIME-SENSITIVE EDITION Everybody knows that climate warming is a hoax perpetrated by googly-eye tree-huggers bent on destroying our capitalist way of life. Everybody except nearly every climate scientist on the planet. And this guy. Click through and scroll slowly all the way to… [read more]
