Monthly Archives: August 2019

The whims of one man now determine much of what happens in what we think of as a republic, where power should, in principle, be widely disseminated. And you don’t just see this in what has objectively happened. You can … Continue reading →

Apparently, the First Felon thinks that our elections may need to be protected from Google.
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With the arguable exception of George H.W. Bush, every Republican president since 1980 has pushed through tax cuts that disproportionately benefited the 1 percent while trying to defund and/or privatize key social programs like Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and the … Continue reading →

When I was a very young engineer, with a specialty in soil mechanics, I seriously considered going to Alaska to study permafrost because frozen ground behaves neither plastically nor elastically; it would be a rare and distinctive specialty. I decided … Continue reading →

The Baptists ain’t gonna like this … Continue reading →