The cover of USA Today ran the following headline yesterday: “We are failing each other”. I have to say that I disagree. The responsibility for
Category: Mind
There’s an unhappy photo on the Associated Press of what appears to be a CH-47 Chinook hovering over Kabul evacuating diplomats. It looks distressingly like
It really is beginning to look like there is light at the end of the tunnel…..barring a really virulent COVID variant.
I prefer to call it sitting or sitting meditation, stripped of cultural nuances. Its root is zazen or zen, sitting meditation in Japanese. But there
I’ve noticed two logical arguments that are repeatedly used by Trumpists, both flawed. To America’s discredit, they seem to be gaining more general use. In
After the rape of Capitol Hill by a Trumpian mob, I wonder if this is the act of hubris that I have long instinctively expected.
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I wrote a fair amount during the George W. and Obama administrations, particularly the former’s. Incensed by the stupidity of squandering the 2000 budget surplus
Incredibly naive? Or profoundly stupid?
Update to this article. The Economist distilled my thinking on 12/5/2020: Two factors tied to the pandemic help account for Taiwan’s relative success this year.
The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.
Local control of schools is a failure. People have lost, if they ever had, any ability to think analytically. Being able to posit an alternative
Was reading somewhere about an author’s disappointment that something didn’t happen at the very end of 2020 to bring more closure. The sentiment is entirely silly.
I don’t believe in the supernatural. I do believe in the power of symbols.
We drove through Denali National Park.
Someone stopped by for breakfast.
Trump’s voter fraud lawsuits have all failed. This underscores one fundamental fact about Trump. While his misinformation and lies can sway the gullible and the
Git her done.
The NYT is reporting that while the deaths attributable to corona virus is 303,963, the death rate has been higher than they would be in
I feel for those who struggle, whose numbers have grown so much in 2020.