I read somewhere that the train derailment that covered a town in southeast Ohio with toxic smoke could be good for Republicans, but I’m struggling to understand how that could possibly be. I get that people in the rural parts …
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Trust me, if there were a way to move to a “national divorce” that was feasible even in the least, I think most progressives would favor a Constitutional amendment to make it legal. Imagine two countries: One consists of what …
When I came across this t-shirt ad, I asked myself why the model didn’t want his face shown. Maybe it’s because he doesn’t want to be associated with a concept befitting a true asshole. I’m not worried about my feelings; …
The content of the meme here is sad, but the conmen who extract huge sums of money from the idiots they prey on are as permanent a part of our world as compass needles that point north. There is nothing …
Roughly: Mommy, why are there so many sad and empty people? Because we live in a world full of lies, egos, and pleasures, in which money has the most value, and people deceive themselves, and all that, my daughter, poisons …
So many things make no sense in today’s world. Teachers are so badly underpaid that there being forced to leave the profession. Almost half of American voters believe that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from Donald Trump, despite the …
When we think of slavery in our modern world, many of us, understanding as we do that the institution is illegal in every sovereign country on Earth, assume that it no longer exists. Sadly, that’s not true; it’s estimated that …
Robert Heinlein was one of the “big three” American science fiction writers of the 20th Century, along with Arthur C. Clark and Isaac Asimov. Like so many others of my (baby-boomer) generation, I loved his Stranger in a Strange Land. …
As tensions between China and the United States rise, U.S. military equipment is flooding into Southeast Asia, in places like the Philippines, Okinawa, Australia, and Guam. Some suggest that building embassies, so as better engage in diplomacy, is a stronger …
I could be wrong, but I don’t think many people today accept what Arthur C. Clark said here. I would guess that even the most pious folks out there recognize that there are atheists who are morally good, who live …
