How Change Happens -- 'Rhetoric' Paints the Vision
By: the Merry ContrarianI apologize. This is my first blog. I don’t know how to get the Merry Contrarian as my tag name.This is a letter to the Editor I wrote to the NY Times in response to Paul...
View ArticleGoedel's Theorems Debunk a favorite Meme of Hillary Supporters - "It's the...
I am sick and tired of hearing Hillary supporters scoff at Bernie supporters as if they are saying something profoundly obvious:“Mathematics!” they say. “It’s the mathematics [stupid]!”.Of course,...
View ArticleWhy Exactly is it Wrong to Take Money From the Corporate Elite
This is a reaction to Hal Brown’s diary . But it got too long to be a comment. And it is a general reactionI keep seeing an overly simplistic characterization of taking so much money from Wall Street...
View ArticleReport from the Front Lines - Canvassing to Flip the Sixth - "It was meant to...
My free time these days is spent canvassing – Jon Ossoff for the Georgia 6th! I have tried phone banking before. However, it usually seems pointless. Either the person is already an avid supporter,...
View ArticleIS THERE HOPE LEFT
Today, like many of you, I am going to attend a climate strike in Atlanta.But before I leave, I would like to introduce a new blog project. I hope to write these about once per week, if people here...
View ArticleIMPEACHMENT - THE LAST DEFENSE OF THE INDEFENSIBLE
Thinking ahead just a little:It is no longer tenable for anyone remotely ‘pervious’ to facts, or even for impervious Republican sycophants, to dispute Trump’s quid pro quo. I can almost hear Trump...
View ArticleSTILL HOPE – IN MAJOR U-TURN CONSERVATIVE UK GOVERNMENT HALTS FRACKING,...
Not long ago, Boris Johnson, the right-wing extremist who rode Brexit to power, hailed fracking as “glorious news for humanity,” and urged the UK to “leave no stone unturned” in...
View ArticleThree Pieces of News Today That I Find . . . Titillating
This is not a typical diary. But three pieces of news today that I find . . . titillating.First, Trump was greeted with loud boos and chants of 'lock him up' at the New York Veterans Day ParadeI have...
View ArticleLittle Donnie And I Were Students Together in the Same Fourth Grade Class!
Little Donnie And I Were Students Together in the Same Fourth Grade Class!It was only briefly, for one semester. But I remember him well. He was a big kid. Athletic. A bit overweight. With a butchy...
View ArticleWHAT IS ‘HOPE’? AND WHY I CAN’T LET GO
The New Year should be a time for resolve and hope. Impeachment hearings, notwithstanding.But how can we unsee the blood-red skies over Australia, the forests burning in Indonesia and Brazil, the...
View ArticleIn honor of Earth Day - DIVEST NOW
Today the theme of the Earth Day movement is Divestment. I urge everyone to join in. This is the most powerful and practical thing we can do right now to slow the extractive nature of our economy.As...
View ArticleAtheism v Religion - We all have Faith in Something
I don’t generally enter the “pie fights” about religion vs atheism because I’m agnostic. But there is something important about the relationship between, shall we call it “faith” and “skepticism”...
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