Saturday, December 13, 2025

It’s a scam

The irony is obvious - taking money from the taxpaying public to destroy a vital public institution that, unlike charter schools, must take all comers.

500 years is long enough! Human Depravity in the Congo

For more than 500 years, the Congo has been brutalized by the extraordinary violence inflicted by those who have treated the country as a resource – for slaves, rubber, timber, wildlife and minerals – to be exploited.

We need immediate and drastic climate action

We must very rapidly stop the extraction and use of fossil fuels.

O.N.E.

“This is what it means to be an American dealing with a fake president spouting cringeworthy claims even as we try to create decent relationships with bewildered people from other lands.”

Does Trump know the limits of presidential power?

Since we aren’t going to vote for Trump, and since not voting is pointless if we want a better government, then what?

Emergency response

Police have fatally shot more than 1,200 people with mental illnesses since 2015, according to the database.

Not exceptional. It’s strange.

Here are examples where America is different from other countries...

We are being out-evolved

As we have anointed our own species Homo sapiens, the wise men, I’d say it’s time to reassess. I’m thinking Stultus homines, Stupid men.

Trumping It Up at Mar-a-Lago

“This is the man who wants to be America’s next president. I shudder at the thought.”

Time for a Nonviolent Assault on Our Blood-Stained Congress

“It is time to end this experiment with transmogrifying the entire US into Tombstone Territory with everyone armed to the teeth prepared to either be a bad guy or take out a bad guy. It is not working.”