Once More Into the Breach
This year’s UN Climate Summit, COP 23, starts tomorrow in Bonn. Here’s a preview from The Washington Post: The 2015 Paris accord set a target of limiting global warming to…
The Mound of Sound
Well, We Know How They Feel About Trump
Donald Trump has nations a bit on edge, even America’s friends. Take the Swedes for example. Sweden is a country with Cold War memories. During those dark years when the…
Where There’s Smoke… There’s Wilbur
It’s like dragging up a bucket of seawater and looking at all the tiny little critters swimming around inside. You’re only getting the smallest of looks, a bare peep, into…
It’s Sunday. How About a Sermon?
This being the Christian holy day and all I thought I might take a moment away from my constant struggles with Lucifer to contemplate my understanding of belief, that wondrous…
It’s Time to Kick Over the Traces.
It began in England around the year 1760 almost five thousand years after humans were first organized into civilizations in southwest Asia and northeast Africa. It, the Industrial Revolution, ushered…
I’m President. Why Can’t I Prosecute My Enemies?
America’s Thug in Chief bristles at the fact that he cannot use “his” government to prosecute whomever he likes, as in Hillary Clinton. Trump doesn’t seem very comfortable with this…
Oh Dear. How Will Trump Square this Circle?
Donald Trump screwed up, big time. He forgot to get Congress to repeal the US Global Change Research Act of 1990. And, today, that earned the Mango Mussolini a swift…
Faint Hope
These days good news on climate change is hard to find. Yet recent progress by major emitters, specifically China, give hope that the world might just meet the Paris Climate…
Where Nazi Germany Refined the Art of Racism and White Supremacy
Hard as this to accept, Hitler’s Germany seems to have taken many of its cues on building the Aryan state by exploring how the American south organized its white supremacist…
A New Standard for "Batshit Crazy"
You knew he was an idiot but former Texas governor turned Trump energy secretary, Rick Perry, has really tumbled out of the Stupid Tree, hitting every branch on the way…
America’s Biggest Ever Theft by Ideology
Robert Reich has worked out that the Republican’s latest “tax plan” would pilfer nearly $6 trillion from the public coffers almost all of which would make its way into the…
And This Is Where We Need to Worry
China is in the process of ascending to superpowerdom, displacing America from its perch. And the US Navy is worried that they’ll get away with it without a fight. There…
The Debasement of John Kelly Continues
This jackass has ridden his four stars into the dirt. Having made a fool of himself over his remarks on the Civil War that aped his fuhrer’s comments, the “good…
I Wonder What an Original Hitler Goes For?
An original Donald Trump sketch just went for $16,000. Here it is. That’s Trump’s sketch of the Empire State Building. Impressive, huh? Probably not the best week to bring this…
Russia’s Dog-Whistle Ads on Facebook. Election Meddling? You Betcha!
More than a few commenters on this blog have dismissed Russia’s Facebook ad campaign as a load of hooey, meaningless pap. To relieve them of their profound ignorance and/or stupidity,…
Trump Fights Collusion Threat by Resorting to Obstruction
A stupid man is one who has no grasp of his limitations and, on that score, Donald Trump is an exemplar. Trump is in trouble. Special counsel Mueller gave the…
I Don’t Get It.
A neighbour of mine who’ll turn 80 next week sometimes asks what’s happened in recent years, has the world gone crazy? She’s having trouble making sense of why so many…
Why John Kelly Needs to Keep His Damn Mouth Shut
I never paid too much attention to the American Civil War but still I was taken aback when White House Chief of Staff and retired Marine general John Kelly wrote…
Just Sayin’ It Sounds a Little Weird to Me.
America’s new ambassador to Canada is Kelly Knight Craft. It looks like we got a winner this time. Her remark that there is good science on both sides of the…
Casting Bones and Reading Entrails Takes on a New Dimension When They’re Trump’s Guts and Bones
Poor old Donald, America’s “tax returns concealer in chief.” Not for nothing did the Mango Mussolini refuse to divulge his personal tax info. There’s probably a lot to hide. His…