Many have searched for reasons to explain Elon Musk’s departure from seemingly sane politics to a radical, even bizarre, personal, and financial support of the most unfit and unhinged candidate to ever infect politics, Donald Trump. For such an influential billionaire spending hundreds of millions of dollars for a…
While democracy sinks, the media wants to assign blame for inflation. It wants to focus on the details of a partisan cat fight rather than discuss its background or cause. It centers discussion on Republican attacks on Big Bird rather than the issues involved. It is combative, not constructive.…
Tucker Carlson said President Joe Biden has aligned himself with sentiments of “The Great Replacement,” which he explained as “the replacement of legacy Americans with more obedient people from far away countries. They brag about it all the time, but if you dare to say it’s happening, they will…
Media focus is myopic. Its narrative sees only the visible participants. What is of consequence behind the settings are usually invisible. That prevailing force is corporate. In a democratic capitalist system, we depend on media sources to disperse unvarnished truth, but the ultimate check on the corporate control is…
According to a CBS 60-Minutes report on 5/16/2021, the U.S. Senate’s intelligence committee has ordered the director of national intelligence and the secretary of defense to deliver a report on decades of mysterious Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) sightings by next month. There has often been a Looney-Tunes flavor to…
You probably have already made your decision and I fervently hope that it is to continue Donald Trump’s ban from Facebook. I realize that Mr. Zuckerberg has dropped the hot potato in your laps. I’m sure you realize that Donald Trump used the social media forum to incite a…
Since 1916 we – American taxpayers -- have given $470 billion to “Big Oil” for the oil depletion allowance which, in effect, has paid oil companies more than the capital cost of the asset, in this case, oil. The oil depletion allowance in American tax law is an allowance…
After substantive “missing matter” reports some fifty years ago, scientists have spent decades in a quest for hidden particles. In the new millennium, alternative views suggest the search should be for new and/or unseen forces, not unknown matter. With perceptions improving with more advanced technologies, what is the impact…
We might say that the fabric of American society is unraveling, the victim of a desperate Trump whose psychopathy thrives on stoking violence, chaos and division, monopolizing the media, posing as the ultimate authority, and being adulated by his base. His first goal can be disbursed among 940 hate…
The two current attacks on humankind have similar causes: greed and stupidity. Though one is a force of nature, it was a result of the human pillaging of our planet, the ravaging of a natural habitat for personal profit, reserving paltry resources to study the consequences of disturbing creatures…