This month’s top ten discussion topics
The Top Ten change on the first of every month!
States Rights
Ex-president Donald Trump enunciated a policy on abortion. Even though many of his supporters like to think of him as an outsider, he is a politician; and he did a very political thing. He avoided taking a stand. He said that abortion decisions should be left to the...
Yellow Politics
Any reputable school of Journalism teaches that their discipline sank to a low water mark in America at the end of the 1800’s. Two competing newspapers, one owned by Joseph Pulitzer and one owned by William Randolph Hearst, destroyed the integrity of the news with...
Four Party America Continued
The first blog I wrote, back in 2013, poked fun at both the Democrats and the Republicans for their misguided attempts to corral enough voters to make the false claim to a Permanent Majority. That is never going to happen, and yet both parties are still orchestrating...
Four Party America
Some years ago, I wrote about PEW research that identified nine distinct political personas within the greater American political landscape. The thrust of my words, then and now, is to say that the two-party system is failing in its promise to represent us. The nine...
News from the Eighth Grade Classroom
A lot of the information below comes from EarthSky.org. What follows is from my extremely limited and non-scientific perspective. Today’s eighth grader is learning things about which I am only vaguely aware. Here’s what I know: The ancient Greeks had various ideas on...
American Isolationism
The CBS Sunday Morning show this morning did a segment on the death and destruction in Ukraine. The problem was discussed, but no solutions were put forward. No solutions are ever put forward. The situation in Ukraine is just one of the Political issues used by both...
The Ten Commandments
The Ten Commandments, also known as the Decalogue, are a set of biblical principles that play a fundamental role in both Judaism and Christianity. These commandments were given by God to Moses on Mount Sinai and are recorded in the Bible in Exodus...
Depression Solutions
First, we all face up to depression without exception. The only difference is in how we deal with it, and there are only three ways. The most popular way is through elevated levels of cynicism, skepticism, and disdain. That approach gives us a temporary sense of...
East of Gaza
Three months ago, Palestinian militants made the mistake of conducting a military operation into the area east of Gaza (AKA the West Bank). Inevitably, Israel retaliated with far superior force, killing militants and civilians alike. I asked AI if Palestinians can...
OpenAI and Sam Altman
From an NPR Business report: The importance of all news related to OpenAI cannot be overstated. Huge decisions that will seriously impact our lives are being made behind closed doors. On a world tour this year, he was mobbed by a crowd of adoring fans at an event in...