The New Abnormal: Florida Wants to Muzzle Bloggers
The stupidest thing I will read today, and likely for some time to come, is the text of 2023 Florida
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Harun Yahya Gets A Lonnnnnnnggggggg Prison Sentence
Turkish Islamic antievolutionist Harun Yahya (aka Adnan Oktar) got a 8,658 year prison sentence. The Mirror has the story. Their
Read moreElection 2022: Naive Forecasts for US Races
If you are like me, you are in suspense concerning the outcomes in various of the 2022 US general election
Read moreMichigan: A Survey on the Reproductive Freedom Ballot Measure
Diane was on a phone call with someone identifying themselves as being with ‘Telepoint Market Research’, and the person was
Read moreClimate Change: Responding to ‘No One Knows If It Is Us’
I was listening to a conversation where climate change came up, and one of the participants opined that while warming
Read moreMy Latest Letter to My Representative, Tim Walberg
A news item reports former Trump administration official Peter Navarro saying he had agreements with over 100 congressmen to aid
Read moreThe New Abnormal: Gen. Colin Powell and the Trump Insurrection
Gen. Colin Powell was on CNN saying we don’t need a 25th Amendment removal or impeachment, with only 13 days
Read moreElection 2020: Another Open Letter to My Congressional Representative, Tim Walberg of the Michigan 7th District
I sent this via Tim Walberg’s feedback form in the evening of January 6th, 2021, while he was part of
Read moreThe New Abnormal: The Cicchetti Declaration in Texas & Friends v. Swing States
Texas filed a lawsuit in the Supreme Court against four other states (Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Georgia). Others have already
Read moreElection 2020: An Open Letter to My Congressional Representative, Tim Walberg of the Michigan 7th District
I just sent text in blockquotes further below to my House representative’s email and requested a response. I’ll post back
Read moreElection 2020: Naive Forecasts of Swing States
Update: 2020-11-06 10:50 EST: Biden is now ahead in Pennsylvania by 6826 votes, and the remaining votes to be tallied
Read moreThe New Abnormal: Trillions of Our Money for Trump’s Corrupt Campaign Shenanigans, Not One Damned Penny for Responsible Governance
A question came up in discussion, which was how the stock market could be doing as well as it is,
Read moreThe New Abnormal: Is Kompromat Already a Standard Political Tool of the Trump Administration?
I’ve been saying, again, that people having complete turnarounds in stances just following brief visits to the White House looks
Read moreThe New York Times as Pollyanna for COVID-19
The New York Times has an interactive model of projected COVID-19 infection and fatalities in the USA titled “How Much
Read moreThe New Abnormal: The Monarchy is Restored in the USA
For months now, Donald J. Trump’s lawyers have argued in lawsuit after lawsuit that not only should a current president
Read moreDI Gets It Wrong Yet Again: Definitions v. Behavior, Hallucinating Text, and Impersonating an ESL Student
[Sometimes life slides by for a while. The following text has been languishing in ‘drafts’. I apparently wrote a good
Read moreNegligent Public Officials
An MSN article on Trump’s former White House chief of staff, John Kelly, reported that Kelly expressed regret over having
Read moreUgly Theories Killed by Inconvenient Facts
I was looking for some info on income inequality, and ran into this article on Vox about empirically disproven economic
Read moreAnother Child Sex Criminal (#4 so far) in the Trump Camp
I haven’t been combing news reports with any great efficiency, but every once in a while a news item just
Read moreAnalysis of the Electoral College: A Performance-Driven Assessment
The Electoral College has not done the job it was intended to do, and was changed in the time since
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