Nullius in verba
It’s always been a crazy life. The President doesn’t have a monopoly on self-induced chaos. The monster of history is one long tableau of illusions of rationality. Those demons are lurking in all of us. It’s just that we don’t have the codes to nuclear Armageddon at our fingertips. Crazy life is at home everywhere. […]
Even though the House Republican’s forced starvation of health care for the vulnerable, known as the American Health Care Act (AHCA), will undergo many changes in the coming weeks, and even though the U.S. Senate is bound to file off some of its most wicked burrs slashing away at almost everyone’s life line, the Republican […]
Nuclear testing and uranium mining during much of the cold war and its lunatic arms race left New Mexico, the Four Corners Region, and some say the whole country, more or less, contaminated by blast fallout from atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons and airborne mining dust that has sickened and killed, and is still killing, […]
It’s been said that all of us have our prejudices. Perhaps that’s true. But few of us gain pleasure or gratification from causing people physical pain, psychological torment, humiliation and fear for their lives just because they belong to a group we choose to persecute. That sense of gratification from causing pain in others is […]
There’s a numb helplessness, a kind of gray anesthetic fog that’s settling over the political landscape these days. National politics is a nightmare of clowns and distracted groundskeepers sweeping up what the Elephants leave behind. But the piles are getting too big and no one really knows what to do with them. And so there’s […]
When President Trump signed a resolution last week that gives states the power to withhold federal Title X family planning funds from Planned Parenthood, he spotlighted once again the evil history of misogyny in American culture. Hatred of women is the primal prejudice. It is the context and source of all other bigotry. That the […]
New Mexico is a perfect example of what happens when a government is run by people who hate government; who want to run government “like a business;” who make a virtue of selfishness; who think those with low incomes are inferior to the wealthy; who give lip service to caring for the unfortunate, the old, […]