Facts
“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored” Aldous Huxley I have anger issues. (Common in combat veterans.) In comments on a Facebook post, someone responded to me with “alternative facts” and I lost it. I made a…
Category Editorials
Democracy! What is it good for?
The election of 2024, progressives declared, was going to save democracy. According to the outcome, a hell of a lot of people didn’t give a fuck. When we praise democracy, we focus on all the great and salient aspects: that…
We Need To Talk About Biden’s Executive Order on Asylum
The author of this piece is someone I admire and follow on Twitter. His name is Qasim Rashid, a human rights lawyer, father, and perennial candidate for office. He’s quite brilliant and especially thorough. President Biden just took the lead…
The Reagan Era of Voodoo Economics
Take a look at the meme in the opening image. I found it online and thought to myself that when it comes to misinformation, sometimes both side participate. This is how I responded to the posting on Facebook: First, the…
Margaret Mead
There is an apocryphal story all over social media about Margaret Mead. Here is how it starts: Years ago, anthropologist Margaret Mead was asked by a student what she considered to be the first sign of civilization in a culture.…
Gun Deaths? Let’s Do Nothing!
On this subject I’ve often written that doing nothing doesn’t seem to be working, which I firmly believed until I did a search through the old archives. This searching stuff all started when I suddenly remembered a “News of the…