The United States boasts one of the strongest economies in the world, with a 2.4% inflation rate and a 4.2% unemployment rate. Yet most Americans think the US economy is doing poorly, and they point to the high price of groceries. What is going on here? I have my own scenario, which I’m not hearing […]
Category: Politics
THE RETURN OF POST-MODERNISM
If truth is beauty, does truth lie in the eyes of the beholder? Around 30 years ago, post-modernism was the darling of the intellectual set. I tried to read the main authors — Derrida, Lyotard, Foucault, Habermas — but found them impossibly pompous and dense. The best I could make out was that their message […]
TRUMP TARIFFS AND THE SMOOT-HAWLEY TARIFF OF 1930
Trump speaks as though does he not understand tariffs. He claims that putting a tariff on Chinese goods means that the Chinese will pay the US billions of dollars in tariffs. That’s not how tariffs work: 2. If the importer pays the tariff, he will immediately pass the increase on to the consumer. That is […]
WE SHOULD MOCK TRUMP’S LIES
I posted a joking spoof of Trump’s outrageous lie that illegal Haitians in Springfield, Ohio were eating (White) people’s pets. I was called out on this over Facebook, on grounds that I was escalating Trump’s lies into the public domain, that responding to lies only ‘perpetuates the myth’. After all, this plays right into J.D.Vance’s […]
“A-bombs Don’t Kill People……”
Hiroshima: Second Amendment Right? I’m watching CNN’s discussion of guns after the latest school shooting du jour. Yawn! Same old boring arguments, thoughts and prayers, second amendment, etc. But there’s one argument I’m not hearing: whether I have the right to bear nuclear arms. The same argument that people use to justify AR-15s should apply […]
ISRAEL SHOULD TAKE HOSTAGES
What would I do if my son were kidnapped, and the kidnapper demanded a million dollars or I would never see my son again? I would probably beg, borrow, or steal the money to get my son back, without any logical reasoning such as: However, any such logical reasoning goes out the window when it’s […]
A HAMAS CONSPIRACY THEORY
I have written, in earlier blogs, about Hamas’ goal and strategy: the destruction of the State of Israel though global outrage against Israel . To reiterate a bit: First, the October 7 incursion into Israel was not designed to topple Israel in one fell swoop. Rather, it was to provoke Israel into a blind rage […]
I REALLY GREW UP IN APPALACHIA
J.D. Vance has been touting his knowledge of Appalachia through his book Hillbilly Elegy, even though he grew up in northern Ohio and knows very little about Appalachia, except for a collection of negative cliches that point to Appalachians as a bunch of genetically degenerate losers. I actually grew up in a small town of about […]
WHAT I’M NOT HEARING ABOUT IMMUNITY
The media have been going berserk talking ad nauseum about Presidential immunity. But it seems there are many questions that they are not asking. Does this ruling mean that there can be no more impeachments of Presidents? Can the Republicans forget about impeaching Joe Biden? If so, can a former President be un-impeached? Trump’s infamous phone […]
HOW CITIZENS UNITED DIVIDED THE CITIZENS
I contend that the Supreme Court ruling Citizens United vs. Federal Elections Committee (2010) is a prime cause of exacerbating the divide between the rich and the poor in America. In short, it allowed the rich, through large corporations, to buy politicians, who then enact laws that benefit the rich and harm the poor and middle […]