When you let a corrupt president off for corruption guess what happens? He goes and pardons people convicted on corrupt crimes. What do you suppose is going to happen next? If you said anything other more people will do more corrupt things with the expectation that they can get away Read more…
That’s a phrase I’d never thought I’d hear myself say. I can’t say I agree with Mitt on much of anything politically. But I can certainly respect him as a human being. As the only Republican with the courage to vote against party lines to find Donald Trump guilty of Read more…
We’re coming up on the primary season in the US. I wish it would be a time for the left leaning side to decide who they want to represent them against who the right leaning side decides represents them. But the right leaning side isn’t even getting a choice in Read more…
Well, it’s begun. The third impeachment trial of a US president. I don’t have much to say at this point. I have my fears that this will be nothing more than a show trial with everything being preordained along party lines. But I might be surprised. In away, this situation Read more…
When you hear about the Robot Apocalypse you think of things like Terminator or the Matrix or Ultron. You don’t generally think about Robots leading us to our doom by accident though. They are depicted as malicious and vengeful. But it looks like they’re probably going to just get us Read more…
There’s a campaign GIF for Trump that has him photoshopped to become Thanos. He claims his reelection is inevitable. Then, snaps his fingers and Nancy Pelosi and a bunch of Democrats are wiped from existence. This GIF works on so many levels. First, I mean, come on, Thanos is the BAD Read more…
Listening to a “Factually” podcast they talked about the housing and homeless problems in America. The guest, Dr. Sam Tsemberis, described his research working with the homeless which had shown how the most effective method to helping people who were homeless was to give them a place to live. This Read more…
We’re approaching Thanksgiving here in the US of A. One of the common tropes about the holiday is getting together with family and having to put up with someone’s old racist grandparents. Or uncle. That got me thinking. What out of touch thing will my generation do when we’re the Read more…
There’s a new meme floating around the internet. In response to someone saying something condescending, ignorant, racist or out of touch Gen Z coined the response “Ok boomer.” It’s a digital eye-roll. It’s flippant and irreverent. And it’s perfect. A fair number of people are quite incensed about it. There Read more…
For a long time now I’ve been struggling to put into words some ideas. They’ve been hovering just out of my grasp. Recently, I watched a video that finally articulated this idea in a concise way that was eluding me. This video is part of a series that I found interesting Read more…