January 6 has draped the GOP, and its lunatic fellow travelers, in shame and infamy.
Getting Away with Trying to Overthrow the U.S. Government
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The Laws of Physics, Gamesmanship and American Politics
Amanda Gorman described the possibilities of a post-Trump era.
Fascism, Democracy, E.B. White and FDR’s Four Freedoms
Deceit in the form of propaganda is the fundamental tool of a fascist mentality.
Mindf..king, Malicious Confusion, Malign Illogic
When the Trump Administration okayed the release of a massive federal study on human-caused climate change that contradicted the core absurdity of Republican anti-climate change ideology, many Americans were left scratching their heads. Was the White House sending a signal of a fundamental policy change in the works? Was bureaucratic infighting about to see the […]
After Harvey and Trump, Will the Federal Government Ever Have Our Backs Again?
In the hot, chaotic world of global climate change would Mexico and the Mexican Red Cross be the hope-of-last-resort for New Mexicans caught in a thousand-year drought or a Harvey-like episode of monstrous monsoonal flooding when the Republican Congress and the White House would not? That’s not a joke question. While the White House praised […]
The Trump White House, That’s Mighty White of Ya
In the Jim Crow South of the ’50s and ’60s, one of the traditional compliments of the white upper class, I’ve been told, was to say with nodding approval “that’s mighty white of ya.” That phrase has become a sort of sick joke for those who have fled the haunted culture of segregation that still […]
The Two Greatest Mistakes in Human History
Why should someone like me, an old man in Albuquerque, New Mexico, think he should be writing something about the ludicrous and monstrous possibility of imminent nuclear war with North Korea? And why am I finding an association between such madness and the fact of climate change denial? Other than my horror at the thought […]