Can the United States take back control? In October 1960, Nikita Khrushchev, premier of the Soviet Union, famously took off his shoe at a UN General Assembly meeting, pounded it on the table in front of him and shouted, “We will bury you!” …

A Children’s Story about Being Happy Tommy Wharton was not happy. It’s not like anything was terribly wrong. Tommy was almost never happy. Everything bothered Tommy, but today was a particularly bad day. Nothing was going right. This morning, Mommy woke Tommy up too soon. He didn’t know what time…

A Morality Tale Emily and Jasper sat peacefully in their cozy living room one brisk October evening, warmed by the fire that Jasper had gently stoked before going back to his reading. Jasper enjoyed science fiction, and Emily read mostly romance and detective stories. In this one, the heroin was…

Wanna Play? I confess. I don’t understand, and I would like to understand. I imagine there are many folks like me who would like to know why Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin are taking a seemingly irrational stand against the protection of voting rights, which both say they favor. …

Joe, Here’s how to serve your constituency… · Provide funding to: Help train younger coal workers to meet the challenges of the inevitable loss of coal-related job opportunities by providing funding for same through the Build Back Better Act. (It’s an easy sell, and all Democrats will buy into it.) Negotiate with Democrats to provide funding for coal workers everywhere (not…

The Case of Manchin & Sinema — Democrats are being kind to Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin by not pointing out their hypocrisy. Being hypocritical is different from being merely insincere in that hypocrisy presumes action. Insincerity is just a statement. Hypocrisy is evident when one’s actions do not conform to a person’s claims of moral standards…

Abstract: Through no fault of their own, save believing in their trusted sources, anti-vaxxers have been fed misinformation that has resulted in a pandemic almost exclusive to the unvaccinated. That pandemic is not just dangerous to the anti-vaxxers but also to others who will become ill and die from Covid-19…

What will we teach them? — Here’s what children need to know: · Inciting insurrection is OK. (Insurrection itself is bad, but if you can motivate a bunch of boobs to do it for you, that’s fine.) · Folks living in urban centers are not real Americans. · It’s OK to form political opinions without taking…

He should be tried in criminal court instead On January 6, 2021, then-president Donald J. Trump addressed thousands of protestors at the Ellipse near the U.S. Capitol Building. In his speech, he unambiguously provoked the crowd to march to the Capitol and take action to prevent the formal certification of…