A friend sent me this youtube video. The visual is an excerpt of the confirmation hearing for Judge Amy Cony Barrett. Watching and listening to the speech of Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, my despair deepened. How more craven, oblivious to the requirements of office, and of representative democracy can this possibly become? The legislative/administrative violence…
…the right to decide what is trueis not independent of the right to decide what is just,even if statement consigned to these two authorities differ in nature.The point is there is a strict interlinkagebetween the kind of language called science and the kind called ethics and politics:they both stem from the same perspective, the…
Religion and politics are hot buttons. That has always been true. A long list of deadly conflicts could be composed without difficulty. Both of these topics are a “third rail.” Advice is widely known that these topics ought to be avoided in polite company. Would you solicit opinion about politics with relatives whom you…
I did not watch the debate for egotistical reasons. What could the President possibly have said, that he does not say on a daily basis on twitter? What could he possibly show, that he has not demonstrated already? Besides, I’ve already voted. Of importance to me is my rest. Why jeopardize a good night’s…
In an ever-changing, incomprehensible world the masses had reached the point where they would,at the same time,believe everything and nothing,think that everything was possible and that nothing was true. ….Mass propaganda discovered that its audiencewas ready at all times to believe the worst,no matter how absurd, and did not particularly object to being deceivedbecause…
The Balrog reached the bridge. Gandalf stood in the middle of the span, leaning on the staff in his left hand, but in his other hand Glamdring gleamed, cold and white. His enemy halted again, facing him, and the shadow about it reached out like two vast wings. It raised the whip, and the…
We are on the edge of a storm according to a writer in The Atlantic and another in The Federalist. At the end of today’s edition of the NYT The Daily update of articles, I read a paragraph that stated that we are locked in a cold “civil war” as a nation. The journalist…
As mentioned previously, I did not watch the Republican convention. It was widely known that the Party was intent upon rebranding the brash, petulant, infantile Trump, as a stolid law n’ order leader, — “just the man that we need.” I can’t stomach the lies. A lesson of life, learned by dint of experience,…
We met again, a circle of lawn chairs in the setting sun, and then in the cool of early evening to discuss Reciprocal Altruism as a behavior germane to evolutionary development among living creatures. The author of the essay which formed the basis of our discussion, cited the symbiotic relationship between cleaner fish removing…
What is this? Why it’s a potato cucumber that originates in India! The vines love sun and moist earth. The cucumbers are about the size of a golf ball. They can be eaten without peeling, and have a slight lemony flavor. This is one of the garden “experiments” of this year that proved to…
