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A sad anniversary

Today is the 75th-anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death-factory at Auschwitz, in 1945, as the Third Reich collapsed. Gas chamber As someone born just a decade after the end of World War II, and raised among people for … Continue reading

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Tweet of the day

GOP Senators have run out of excuses: Bolton is screaming “call me as a witness.” Willful blindness to the truth is a gross violation of their constitutional duty, especially when a big part of Trump’s defense is that he didn’t … Continue reading

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Tippy-toeing toward treason

A column in the Baltimore Sun says exactly what I’ve been thinking the past few days. It’s fair for some conservative writers, like Charlie Sykes and Matt Lewis, to characterize the Republicans as dupes and stooges or parroting the Kremlin … Continue reading

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Jail for drag-queen story hour?

Honestly, I don’t ‘get’ drag-queen story hour. Continue reading

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Bad epistemology

This is as good a précis of the difference between science and religion as you’re likely to ever encounter. When an engineer grabs his computation pad and begins to analyze a problem, whether it needs a dozen pages or 100-pages, … Continue reading

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