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Human Experience Mind Polemics Politics

Tragedy in the East II

April 6, 2022April 6, 2022

No one would have anticipated the startling stubborn resistance the Ukrainians put up to defend their country, belaying any argument that they are historically Russian. Equally stunning is the incompetence of the Russian military.

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Mind Politics Technology

Best Health Care in the World

March 6, 2022March 17, 2022

On occasion, as a counter to not doing anything about our non-existent health care system, a politician will use nationalist rhetoric as a dodge asserting

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Human Experience Mind Social Media

americancanary.org

February 18, 2022February 18, 2022

Little thought gems from americancanary.org and my italicized replies.

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Human Experience Mind Politics

The Daily on 1/31/2022, Dr. Fauci

January 31, 2022February 2, 2022

Interesting exchange between Michael Barbaro and Dr. Anthony Fauci on  The Daily, Jan. 31, 2022: Michael Barbaro: “Aren’t the covid cautious fighting their own war

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Mind Politics

Columbus Day Is Obsolete

October 12, 2021October 12, 2021

Christopher Columbus and I have history. In the mid-1970s, while sitting over lunch in a villa overlooking Santa Margherita, I remarked that Columbus had apparently

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Mind Politics

Republican Fantasies

March 27, 2021August 17, 2021

Trump’s monumental ego, driven by proportional insecurity, prevents him from acknowledging that he was an incumbent president who lost to a rival he called “sleepy”.

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Mind Polemics

COVID Thoughts

May 15, 2021August 17, 2021

15% of Americans are certain they will not get vaccinated and 17% say that they probably will not.

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Mind Polemics Politics

Republican Angst

March 7, 2021August 17, 2021

So Republicans were catatonic at the thought of paying the middle and lower classes $24,000 during this time of financial calamity for so many. They’ve

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Human Experience Politics

History Repeats

August 15, 2021August 17, 2021

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

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Human Experience Mind Polemics

New Logic in the Trump Era

January 23, 2021January 25, 2021

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

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Human Experience Polemics

Not Tragic

January 7, 2021January 16, 2021

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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Human Experience Politics

Faust Knew Better

January 7, 2021January 9, 2021

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

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Polemics

Naive or Stupid

January 9, 2021January 9, 2021

Incredibly naive? Or profoundly stupid?

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Human Experience Mind Politics

COVID and GDP

December 29, 2020January 9, 2021

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.

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Human Experience Politics

Quote for Later

January 9, 2021January 9, 2021

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.

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Mind Polemics

Lobotomy

December 27, 2020January 1, 2021

How did People magazine displace Marat/Sade?

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Polemics

Trump and the Courts

November 17, 2020January 1, 2021

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

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Human Experience Polemics

356,000 Dead. 12/16/2020.

December 16, 2020December 16, 2020

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

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