Hello. My name is Punxsutawney Phil. Today, at 5:24 PM EDT, the Vernal Equinox occurred … marking the beginning of Spring in the Northern Hemisphere. Forty-six days ago, I predicted that there would be 6 more weeks of Winter. (OK, I was off by 4 days. If a bunch of clowns in top hats were… Continue reading Happy Vernal Equinox 2023

Warning If you are a devout follower of the MAGA Cult, a QAnon believer, or (horrors😱) both, you’re not going to like this article. Rather than waste your time calling it “fake news”, making personal attacks rather than rational counter arguments, and painting ideological opponents with decades old, xenophobic tropes, I suggest that: About the… Continue reading Not Your Father’s Republican Party

Your Thoughts and Your Reality Is there an objective reality? Probably. Can we know what it is? Probably not. Does that mean nothing matters? Certainly not. Whether “your whole world you see around you is just a reflection” or what you see is what you get; whether we live in “The Matrix” or a reality… Continue reading Thoughts and Words; Symbols and Meanings

… some “MAGA” ads I can agree with: Mothers Against Greg Abbott

The Logical Fallacy The “Slippery Slope” argument is a logical fallacy. As described in a paper from the Department of Philosophy of Texas State University: In a slippery slope argument, a course of action is rejected because, with little or no evidence, one insists that it will lead to a chain reaction resulting in an… Continue reading Slippery Slope

A Childhood under the Sword of Damocles When I was in elementary school, we were taught to crawl under our desks when we heard the air raid signal. By the time I was 10, the procedure had changed to filing out to the hall and lining up against the wall. I guess we’d grown too… Continue reading Is it Time to Dust Off our Little Desks?

The title of this article, the pun in the header image, and the video below are from the Death of Mercutio in William Shakespeare’s tragedy, Romeo and Juliet. It seems an appropriate curse to place on the leadership and dominant actors of both parties in both chambers of Congress and in state legislatures across the… Continue reading A Plague on Both your Houses

The Most Hated Demographic in America … If you go by the words of some commentators, contributors, and guests in the electronic media, I am a member of the most hated demographic in the United States. I am an old, white, heterosexual, Christian, genetic male. In 2016, some in the media said things like, “Donald… Continue reading Bias, Prejudice, Fear, and Hate

Three Wednesdays … The month of January 2021 was defined by three consecutive Wednesdays: On January 6th, … … a mob composed of anti-government militants, white supremacists, QAnon Conspiracy theorists, Trumpist cult followers, etc. invaded the Capitol Building. Tweeting, “Big protest in D.C. on January 6th. Be there, will be wild!”, President Donald John Trump… Continue reading Election 2020 #18 – The End

WARNING! If you are convinced that anything that reflects negatively on President Trump is “fake news”, you will not like this article. You may as well exit this site and go drink your Kool-Aid. If President Trump’s typical demeanor and behavior annoys you, you may want to remove fragile objects from your immediate vicinity. What… Continue reading Election 2020 #17