With everything happening in the world, it’s easy to forget even the most outlandish statements that came out of the Trump administration even a few years ago. We need to recall how the world stood agape at President Donald Trump’s …
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2020 Vote Results in Pennsylvania, Where Trump Lost, Were Not ‘Impossible’
From Politifact: A blog post that argues for an audit of the 2020 presidential election in the swing state of Pennsylvania claims results there “show a statistically impossible pattern,” and accuses election officials of deciding to “manufacture” votes for Joe …
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Yes, We’re “Dumping Trump,” But the Pain of These Years Will Be With Us For a Very Long Time
We all need to admit that the great rift that has been created in American society–and then wedged wide open–is not going away anytime soon. There was a time when there was, at worst, an uneasy but acceptable level of …
Tagged with: a bloating government bureaucracy enriching itself and the its corrupt donors, alternative facts, anger of stagnant wages and jobs going overseas, deep hatred of people with brown skin, Dumping Trump, fear of immigrants absorbing resources and committing crimes against U.S. citizens, resentment of scientists' telling them how to live their lives
Reading Trump’s Tarot Cards
I like this guy, Bryce Tache. He makes predictions, and he’s obviously a person of conscience. Whether he’s right or not remains to be seen. A few comments.
This Mural Says It All
Educated people tend to be tolerant, and loath to drive their cars into protesters at white supremacist rallies. Educated women have smaller, healthier and more stable families. Education is the key to productivity and affluence. Educated populations understand the creeping …
Loyalty Pushed To Pathological Limits: Why Lying Has Become Part of the Fabric of Our Society
Unless I’m mistaken, it was Arlene Allen, at the University of California at Santa Barbara, who left the very first comment on this blog when it came on line almost exactly eight years ago, and I’ve been eagerly anticipating her …
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We Live in Orwellian Times
In the event that the new U.S. President’s use of “alternative facts” in his inauguration speech isn’t sufficiently reminiscent of George Orwell for you, let me refer you to this little beauty: Wyoming’s attempt to make the sale of solar …
