This book, by Marc Lynch, is worth reading if you are looking, as I was, for a book that puts the whole post-Arab Spring thing…
The future of elections
Posted on 0 commentWe have the extraordinary good fortune of living in the greatest period in human history. Most Americans would blithely dismiss that statement even without seeing it as…
Why Sanders Is Nonsense.
Posted on 1 commentOkay, allow me a little hyperbole. He’s not an abstraction. Bernie Sanders probably has a higher IQ than my cat, or me, for that matter.…
Ben Carson is one of the scariest people in America.
Posted on 0 commentYep, you probably didn’t hear it here first: Ben Carson is nuts. But this isn’t your web site, it’s MINE, and I can say what…
Cuba! (Posted for a friend.)
Posted on 0 commentCuba has been nominated to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for its work in fighting Ebola in Africa along with its outstanding health care solidarity…
The Real Thing
Posted on 0 commentIt just occurred to me: at the root of all human behavior is the desire to discover and to hold The Real Thing. It can be a…
Science triumphant: Yes, it’s Pluto!
Posted on 0 commentWho ever thought, even a few years ago, that we’d ever have anything as cool as a detailed photograph of Pluto’s surface? Hell, even the…
Vita brevior.
Posted on 0 commentYes indeed, life is too damn quick. I like this whole “waking up and living” thing. After 56 years, I have gotten very used to it. The…
Greece: Back to the Drachma
Posted on 0 commentWhen I was taking a college course back in the late 80s, the professor asked us to write opinion pieces for publication in “a European…
Uh oh. I’m evolving.
Posted on 0 commentWhat, me vote for a Republican? Maybe, maybe Rand Paul. There are a lot of ‘ifs’ — if he repudiates the anti-environmentalism of the GOP if he makes it clear that…