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The moral disintegration of the Republican Party continues apace. The puzzlement is that party faithful still spout slogans trying to claim moral high ground in the political arena. Family values? Their everlasting endorsement of the lying, adulterous,
Read moreHwaet. We Gardena in geardagum, theodcyninga, thrym gefrunon, hu tha æthelingas ellen fremedon. What? You don’t understand? The opening line of Beowulf is perfectly good English – at least for the Dark Ages. Even experts aren’t sure when it was
Read more“In climate science, amplifying feedback loops are situations where a climate-caused alteration can trigger a process that causes even more warming, which in turn intensifies the alteration. An example would be warming in the Arctic, leading to melting sea
Read moreThe U.S. Intelligence Community’s Annual Threat Assessment devotes much space to China, Russia, North Korea and Iran, as our main adversaries on the world stage. Along with continued aggression, it warns of stealth attacks via social media to interfere
Read moreMy dormant newspaper juices were already simmering toward a rolling boil over the lousy national reportage – well, the lack thereof – on a story that I thought needed some attention when an even more egregious case of journalistic
Read moreAs of Sunday, the indictment had not been leaked. We don’t know the exact laws in question or how they might have been broken. The estimates run from 20 to 30 individual charges, including some felonies We will
Read moreAs with many recent military reports, the 2023 U.S. Intelligence Community Annual Threat Assessment agrees that climate change – global warming and its offshoots – “will increasingly exacerbate risks to U.S. national security interests as the physical impacts increase
Read moreThe U.S. Intelligence Community’s Annual Threat Assessment released early this month leaves one wondering if our intelligence wonks are too naïve for their jobs or talking in code. Somehow, their intelligence pertains mostly to foreign countries while ignoring similar
Read moreLast week, the U.S. Intelligence Community issued its Annual Threat Assessment. It cited the usual suspects – China, Russia, Iran, North Korea – as our most determined adversaries. It even gave lip service to the climate crisis and other
Read moreEuropeans fleeing religious persecution or seeking better lives arrive on a foreign shore, defeat the local inhabitants, claim a manifest destiny to occupy their lands, dispossess the natives of their property, declare them second-class residents and herd them into
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