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News & Commentary
Hasty and indifferent
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/16/us/white-house-staff.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-shareIn private, three administration officials conceded that they could not publicly articulate their most compelling — and honest — defense of the president: that Mr. Trump, a hasty and indifferent reader of printed briefing materials, simply...
666
https://newrepublic.com/article/132811/can-burgeoning-satanic-movement-effect-political-changeSince its founding, TST has waged a highly active campaign to demand greater separation between church and state, and to challenge the privileged relationship Christianity has with government.A cornerstone of their campaign has been tongue-in-cheek “stuntsâ€...
666
https://newrepublic.com/article/132811/can-burgeoning-satanic-movement-effect-political-changeSince its founding, TST has waged a highly active campaign to demand greater separation between church and state, and to challenge the privileged relationship Christianity has with government.A cornerstone of their campaign has been tongue-in-cheek “stuntsâ€...
Just now leaving the GOP
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/12/opinion/when-will-republicans-stand-up-to-trump.html?_r=0The Republican Party was once the party of small government, free trade, traditional values, principled foreign policy leadership and, most important of all, adherence to the Constitution.That was a long time ago. Who was the last "small government" Republican?...
Trump, a mind (hardly) at work
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-has-a-dangerous-disability/2017/05/03/56ca6118-2f6b-11e7-9534-00e4656c22aa_story.html?tid=ss_twHis fathomless lack of interest in America’s path to the present and his limitless gullibility leave him susceptible to being blown about by gusts of factoids that cling like lint to a disorderly mind.
Trump, a mind (hardly) at work
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-has-a-dangerous-disability/2017/05/03/56ca6118-2f6b-11e7-9534-00e4656c22aa_story.html?tid=ss_twHis fathomless lack of interest in America’s path to the present and his limitless gullibility leave him susceptible to being blown about by gusts of factoids that cling like lint to a disorderly mind.
Belief
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/believe
Cult of personality
https://apple.news/ACi8uMJKRSniEcYpzvr4O9wThey’ve been watching Fox News and reading Facebook, and they’ve concluded that the Washington machine is blocking him at every turn. They blame the conservative Republicans, and they blame the Democrats, and they blame the news media, and they blame, even now, Hillary Clinton.Still blissfully unaware that...
Climate change and Citizens United
Political illiteracy
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2017/04/27/trump-voters-ruining-america-tom-nichols-column/100926836/ The wide disagreement among Americans on the president’s performance, however, is more than partisanship. It is a matter of political literacy. The fact of the matter is that too many Trump supporters do not hold the president responsible for...
Essays
Freedom to be Stupid
My take on Hate Crime Laws and why they're bad idea numero uno. Saying what I think and thinking what I say have never been more dangerous. Or incomprehensible. Introduction One of the organizing principles of every civilized society is that each individual has an inalienable right to believe the most ludicrous nonsense there is. I'm not kidding. It's been codified numerous ways, the most famous probably being the First Amendment's freedom of religion and speech clauses and...
How Few Thoughts a Brain Holds
Random bits of news heartily deserving of extreme vitrolic commentary receive same for price of regular vitrol. My egg nog overdose comes early this year. Merry Christmas to all, and to all a Y2K glitch in your PC. Dr. K gets his 60 Minutes of fame. At least he still does house calls. Opinion polls show this is a big plus. The most amazing thing about the current impeachment frenzy taking place in the nation's capital are those commentators (including, ahem, Vice President...
VUI: The New Paradigm
I talk. Computer listens. Computer does things. Finally somebody who cares what I have to say! 2001: A Space Odyssey a few years early. The latest in human-computer interaction, featuring the Macintosh. This story got me over 400 hits on the hit counter. Imagine what it was like for Steve Jobs in 1979 when he took his now-famous trip to Xerox' PARC research facility and discovered the Graphical User Interface (GUI). Here was the new paradigm in human-computer interaction...
What a Surprise
You couldn't write a novel that would be any more tawdry than what Bill Clinton has foisted upon America's 6 o'clock news. You wouldn't want to. Recommendation: Call your local HazMat team, this is a presidential chemical spill of epic proportions. President Clinton gave his version of an apology Monday night, finally admitting what the rest of America already knew: That he'd had an affair with a subordinate—an action that were he a business executive would get him fired...