2020-11-01 14:52
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2020-10-18 16:10
One non-mention among us is why some whites voted and will continue to vote for Trump due to their concern of being replaced in authority and status by nonwhites, a fear Trump stoked then an… Read More
2020-10-18 15:01
*The pharmaceutical gold rush to invent an antidote for the highly infectious airborne coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic has set its sights on devouring the most perfect fish to swim the s… Read More
2020-09-27 22:35
*Nestled along 500 miles of Alaska’s verdant Inside Passage there are spellbinding skyscraper Sitka spruce, giant western hemlocks, colossal western redcedars and weathered 1,80… Read More
2020-09-13 12:03
* As I’m writing, the air is putrid and acrid. A fog of death has cloaked Washington, Oregon and California. Climate fires have incinerated about five million acres – a once-in… Read More
2020-09-10 23:11
The tragic death of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, has set into motion a public outcry that will go down in American history. In Mr. Floyd’s case, the officer who was responsible for hi… Read More
2020-08-30 13:38
*In a small New England town, one of the few places in America where young people are once again playing organized baseball on community fields, an old man; a veteran, proudly stares at the… Read More
2020-06-29 14:21
Make America Great for All
Trump Tweaks Needed
In today’s hyper-partisan climate, is it possible for two people from opposite ends of the political spectrum to not only debate, but r… Read More
2020-06-29 14:07
Today, people could assume that differences in politics, race, or age might make it impossible to co-exist. Not co-exist in the literal sense, but co-exist by functioning together in societ… Read More
2020-06-29 14:02
When I first heard the expression Make America Great Again, I thought it was awesome. It was great from a marketing perspective, but also a message that I felt would be a rallying cry for o… Read More
2020-05-31 17:28
*Who would think that Members of Congress have one unique skill: picking great stocks? According to an academic paper, “Abnormal Returns From the Common Stock Investments of Mem… Read More
2020-05-03 14:50
*Who is the luckiest person you have ever met or known? Were they all wealthy, or did they have some other sources of satisfaction with their lives, be it love, family, religion, other than… Read More
2020-04-13 12:38
*The global economy has suffered and enormous punch to the gut, and the economies of many nations are coughing and wheezing while dozens of their citizens perish. The culprit in this calami… Read More
2020-04-12 18:03
*What came first is debatable when asked about the chicken and the egg. However, when we ask what happened first, labor or corporations, the answer is labor.
The president has claimed, &ldq&helli…Read More
2020-04-04 15:31
*As someone with a well known reputation as being an avid Trump supporter in my building, and in my neighborhood on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, I have come under attack with some… Read More
2020-04-04 14:52
*A magnificent plant called yellow lantern is flowering along the west coast. It’s a vibrant vernal beauty.
These western inhabitants thrive in rich mucky, wet swamps near red al… Read More
2020-04-02 13:48
*Too many veterans and their families aren’t mentally, emotionally and spiritually prepared for the difficult days ahead. Since the spread of COVID-19, we’ve heard from hundreds… Read More
2020-03-28 14:14
*Science is exhilarating, challenging and rich with rewards. As a scientist, the bees have shown me many things.
Last week, the bees revealed a lesson on speed and stamina. At 230 &helli…Read More
2020-02-20 22:09
*On Tuesday, February 4, 2020 The Senate of the United States announced the acquittal of President Donald J. Trump. Only the third president in history to be impeached, and just as th… Read More
2020-02-09 16:48
*The following recounts true and recent events. The names have been changed.
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Sally had spent scores and scores of hours researching her family’s lineage, an i… Read More
2020-02-08 19:15
*Tom was an alcoholic and a smoker. A master carpenter and sometimes-roofer, he was wiry and tough and a living old-school ad for both Budweiser and Marlboro.
From time to time, usual… Read More
2020-02-02 17:11
*As lawmakers on Capitol Hill are taking part in the impeachment process, President Trump is quietly seeking to accomplish reforms at the Department of Veterans Affairs. But realizing this… Read More
2020-02-02 14:58
*Richard M. Nixon’s book The Real War has a list of rules for the presidency. Rule number six is: “Never let your adversary underestimate what you would do in response to a chal… Read More
2020-01-22 00:50
*Here we go again. Every time a member of the GOP starts lagging in the polls they bring up abortion and/or school prayer. Surefire issues that get the blood flowing and the jaws yapping. A… Read More
2020-01-22 00:50
*Here we go again. Every time a member of the GOP starts lagging in the polls they bring up abortion and/or school prayer. Surefire issues that get the blood flowing and the jaws yapping. A… Read More
2020-01-21 00:41
*We are living in a strange day, age and era in American history, and presidential politics, and it isn’t pretty. It is the Democratic Party of this modern age that has steadily… Read More
2019-12-29 14:26
*In a June 13, 2019 article in the Financial Times (headquartered in London, England) journalist Edward Luce reported on Amy Chua’s “shrewd string-pulling” to get her daug… Read More
2019-11-22 23:07
*Brit Hume, former Washington Bureau Chief for Fox News Network, once said that it’s no longer a simple matter of our country being divided, but it is now more that each side sees the… Read More
2019-11-17 15:22
*Here’s the call:
Dispatcher: 911 what is your emergency?
Caller: I think we have a heart attack victim.
Dispatcher: OK please tell me the age and sex of the victim.
Caller: I can&rsq&helli…Read More
2019-11-15 23:00
*More dead kids. Another devastated town. We mourn, we complain and we do nothing. NOTHING!
As tiresome as it is to listen to NRA Nutz misquote, misinterpret and misuse the… Read More
2019-11-09 14:40
*One Lyman Stone, in The Atlantic of June 24, 2019, blames the Baby Boomers for many of the problems in America, in an article titled “The Boomers Ruined Everything.” According… Read More
2019-11-03 17:40
*During the time that Barack H. Obama was the sitting US President, the Middle East region underwent a fundamental transformation, one in which millions of people were slaughtered in the st… Read More
2019-09-09 21:00
*The efficiency of government depends on human capital and that means hiring the right people. The federal hiring process is lengthy, and while background checks and steps in the hiring pro… Read More
2019-09-08 14:51
*David Karp, the founder of Tumblr, didn’t invent Tumblr. According to Business Insider: “In March 2005, a 17-year-old German high school student named Chris Neukirchen invented… Read More
2019-09-08 13:09
*I am Sam Martinez, born a U.S. citizen of Mexican descent in El Paso, Texas. My father and mother were born in New Mexico and California, respectively in the 1920s. The Treaty of Guadalupe… Read More
2019-08-19 21:42
*Not so long ago ‘bash’ meant a big party, ‘boss’ meant great and ‘a gas’ was a real fun time! Calling someone a ‘queer’ was tantamount… Read More
2019-07-21 12:57
*Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is offering a lot of people hope. Hope for a new beginning, hope for a new life, hope for peace and prosperity. The U.S. government is supposed to wave its magic w… Read More
2019-07-13 10:53
*America’s bees are in big trouble. Instead of protecting our important buzzing brethren and those who faithfully tend to them, the Trump administration is overtly pandering to… Read More
2019-07-07 14:18
*June was the hottest month ever recorded. At the G20 meeting in Osaka, Japan, U.S. President Donald Trump refused to sign a joint statement by the other 19 members on c… Read More
2019-07-04 16:16
*Reading the article titled, “A Message to Mayor Pete from a Latina Mama: “Don’t Force Your Sexual Ideology on Me and My Children,” by Ana Samuel created this respon… Read More
2019-06-29 12:57
*Go outside. Close your eyes. Listen. What do you hear? There’s a whole world around us that’s rich with Nature’s symphony, or, soundscape, that we are all inexorably link… Read More
2019-06-28 22:02
*A few weeks ago Bill Maher tried to explain to the panelists on his HBO program why it will take someone already famous and popular and charismatic to defeat Trump in 2020, and suggested t… Read More
2019-06-28 20:50
*The crime rate in the U.S. has been going down since 1993. There are several explanations for the decline in crime, some of my favorites being that cell phones and the internet have lowere… Read More
2019-06-23 13:12
*The Great Barrier Reef and the Salish Sea have been thrown under the bus by Prime Ministers Scott Morrison and Justin Trudeau, Australia and Canada respectively, for more global heating su… Read More
2019-06-15 13:30
*Earth is roasting right before our very eyes.
The heatwaves in Siberia and Lapland have begun with fury, again. Alaska recorded its hottest spring on record. It&rs&helli…Read More
2019-06-09 13:32
*Exploring the tallest forests is exhilarating. The treetops are 38 storeys, or, more than 380 feet away. The air is rich with oxygen. This must be heaven on earth!
Ambling slowly through t… Read More
2019-06-01 13:06
*The cruel, violent rampage against the dolphins began early this year on New Year’s Day.
Those who willingly inflict torture and excruciating pain against our brethren, the… Read More
2019-05-26 13:39
*Here’s the thing about abortion: it is murder just the same as stabbing someone in an alley and just the same as sending young people into combat.
It isn’t about how many weeks… Read More
2019-05-25 13:52
*About a decade ago, I began sounding the alarm on “The War Against Nature.” For those animal activists and guardians on the frontline, the bloodbath is gut-wrenching.
https://… Read More
2019-05-18 15:13
*Last weekend, an Arctic heatwave caused the mercury to spike to 87 degrees (31C) in northwest Russia. Rapid sea ice loss in April set an all-time record, 479,000 square… Read More
2019-05-12 01:30
*Nature is declining globally at an unprecedented rate. The Man-driven Sixth Mass Extinction is accelerating as quickly as10,000 times the previous five others. Record numbers of Austr… Read More
2019-05-09 21:55
*The media of today (2019) are so incredibly inaccurate and uneducated that it is difficult to understand how they were hired as reporters or commentators. Zack Ford, on the website Thinkpr… Read More
2019-05-04 18:56
*The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) lists hippopotami as red, or, threatened. Their existence is in peril because of destruction of habitat and loathsome&nb&helli…Read More
2019-04-27 14:21
*Given the clamoring among political insiders about aspects of the Mueller Report that they see as problematic for President Trump, and the effects that can have on the American voting publ… Read More
2019-04-27 13:20
*Nature is in crisis. Ladies and gentlemen, our only home is under utter siege by a handful of powerful, greedy, deranged men.
Vast areas of missing sea ice are starving many species of Arc… Read More
2019-04-21 12:30
*Orcas are the most widespread of the cetaceans (whales, dolphins, porpoises). These beauties are the pinnacle of mammalian evolution, and so worthy of our admiration and protection.
The Sa… Read More
2019-04-18 23:39
*China is an interesting state, and becoming a bigger player on the world stage as time passes. Having lost wars to major powers in the more recent century, China is deliberately moving on… Read More
2019-04-12 22:21
*Almost 1,200 dolphins are dead from the shoreline of France’s Atlantic to Greece’s Aegean. The culprit is unmistakably that of Man’s insatiable greed and heinous lust for… Read More
2019-03-23 13:09
*Around the globe, the dolphins are showing scientists that the planet has become unlivable. Dolphin deaths are piling up.
The economics of extinction is quickly driving bluefin tunas off t… Read More
2019-03-20 13:55
*As the French say: “Those that profit from crime are guilty of it.” Your parents slid $50k to a university official and got you in to the college of your dreams. Some of the pa… Read More
2019-03-16 01:08
*This week, Nature’s pageantry afforded Angelenos and others a rare and glorious spectacle. A cool wet winter has unleashed a super floral bloom and along with thi… Read More
2019-03-10 14:52
*In early summer of 2010, coming off a DC Metro line at the US Capitol stop, I found myself walking among a dozen or so people, all of us on our way toward a Tea Party Event being held on t… Read More
2019-03-09 19:29
*It has come to pass, that AI (Artificial Intelligence) and robotics (the word robot comes from the Russian language, meaning work) are moving ahead as fast as they can be built. AI and rob… Read More
2019-03-09 02:00
*This week, the Department of the Interior, led by acting secretary David Bernhardt, announced plans to delist wolves from the Endangered Species Act across America. A s… Read More
2019-03-02 11:56
*People and honeybees share many similarities including some of the same genes and brain neurons. It’s one of the many reasons why I am awed by these masterpiece creatu… Read More
2019-02-24 15:25
*President Donald Trump, to many people, is one of the worst presidents in history. I see no point in attempting to change anyone’s mind about this, nor do I have any desire to persua… Read More
2019-02-23 02:56
*Millennials and Generation Zs are terrified. The accelerating combustion of fossil fuels, the Man-driven Sixth Mass Extinction and the annual 250 billion metric tons of… Read More
2019-02-22 00:46
*Most addicts never see it coming. They just cruise along enjoying a harmless vice, one they are in complete control of, placing themselves above the many that have succumbed. T… Read More
2019-02-16 00:22
*While the U.S. banks celebrate a record windfall from the Trump administration’s $1.5 trillion tax cuts, our planetary life support systems are blinking code red emergency… Read More
2019-02-12 01:10
*Governor Rod Blagojevich’s prison sentence is the most ridiculous example of hypocrisy in the history of justice and political corruption in the state of Illinois.
Setting aside the… Read More
2019-02-10 15:22
*.. and upon entering, the children sprout wings and begin to fly, frolicking and playing together without regard or concern for race or gender; eating nutritious candy and carb-free ice cr… Read More
2019-02-09 13:54
*Accelerating fossil fuel combustion has caused atmospheric and oceanic oxygen levels to plummet. Why is Man knowingly asphyxiating Mankinds only home?
Many of the luxuriant… Read More
2019-02-05 23:49
*Dona nobis pacem. Grant us peace. Sounds like church, or Christmas. Not everyday words, but nice. Like Namaste, Shalom and Aloha, Peace is at once a greeting and a… Read More
2019-02-03 15:49
*We all know that internet is teeming with liars. Conspiracy theorists and quasi-governmental “officials” claiming all kinds of things that never happened, and denying things th… Read More
2019-02-02 14:23
*A couple weeks ago, a majestic western monarch butterfly fluttered by me en route to feed upon the nectar of pretty purple lantana flowers. It whispered, “Don’t forget to tell… Read More
2019-01-28 02:13
*We can all agree that House Speaker Pelosi and President Trump have important jobs and face a variety of pressures. Politics, legislative agendas, and federal agency oversight, are all sub… Read More
2019-01-27 15:50
**The following is political satire*Today the Congress of the United States of America officially passed into law the Twenty-eighth or ‘Hero’ Amendment:
The forty-fifth Presiden… Read More
2019-01-26 22:32
*For more than a month, higher temperatures, longer lasting heatwaves and prolonged droughts have smothered much of the Australian continent. The Man-made climate crisis is smashing into th… Read More
2019-01-26 14:42
*For all of those people who insist on probing, forevermore, whether Donald Trump colluded with the dreaded Russians, the only real question is how hard it is for them to keep a straight fa… Read More
2019-01-21 13:54
*After some consideration, the American Psychological Association has determined that being masculine is “psychologically harmful.” None to my surprise, the APA has determined t… Read More
2019-01-19 13:30
*It’s incomprehensible that Norway’s Equinor is allowed to destroy a magnificent and vital slice of a renowned southern hemisphere marine nursery for more climate destroying fos… Read More
2019-01-13 16:13
*That today’s Democratic Party has the political gall to viciously fight over a few billion dollars that’re earmarked for strengthening and securing US borders, after having giv… Read More
2019-01-13 00:39
*Oceans occupy more than 95 percent of all living space on Earth. Oceans drive Earth’s climate. Oceans have absorbed more than 90 percent of all fossil fuel combustion heat… Read More
2019-01-05 17:02
*A new technology that will change the world has emerged, called CRISPR, an acronym for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeat. While the mechanics of this technology are… Read More
2019-01-05 15:34
*On December 30, 2018, the third imprisoned Atlantic bottlenose dolphin died in just over two years since Dolphinaris Arizona filled its tanks.
10-year-old Kloe died last week at Dolphinari… Read More
2019-01-05 15:34
*On December 30, 2018, the third imprisoned Atlantic bottlenose dolphin died in just over one year since Dolphinaris Arizona filled its tanks.
10-year-old Kloe died last week at Dolphinaris… Read More
2019-01-01 14:51
*“Do you wanna run up to Egghead with me? The new version of Netscape is out and I want to get it before they run out again.”
Egghead – for the uninitiated – wa… Read More
2018-12-30 15:41
*Jennifer Mnookin, Dean of UCLA’s School of Law recently released a research paper on “The Uncertain Future of Forensic Science.” To begin with, the “science”… Read More
2018-12-29 00:17
*Japan has given its six months’ notice to leave the International Whaling Commission (IWC) and resume barbaric and inhumane commercial whaling.
Since 1987, Japan has hidden behi… Read More
2018-12-25 21:16
*The advent of social media was first welcomed as harbinger
of world peace and connectivity. It’s creators put forward that an increasingly
connected world would lead to a global soci… Read More
2018-12-20 01:53
*In the midst of a horrid Man made accelerating Sixth Mass Extinction, the direct action conservation movement, Sea Shepherd, is leading the charge to save the most critically end… Read More
2018-12-16 22:15
*How to succeed in business in the twenty-first century: Outsource as much as you can, to the point that the CEO makes over four-thousand times what the poor schlub doing the grunt work is… Read More
2018-12-13 22:35
*What happens when the world’s leaders fail to act as empathetic reasonable adults? The children of the Earth are rising to the occasion as sentinels for Nature and their future.
In A… Read More
2018-12-07 23:30
*Last week, the National Marine Fisheries Services (NMFS) approved five permits, or, Incidental Harassment Authorizations (IHC) for oil and gas seismic surveys along much of the A… Read More
2018-12-04 23:38
*The Russian state operates on paper as a federal republic. Much like their democratic and parliamentary cousins, they have a distinct legislative, presidential, and judicial branch, hold e… Read More
2018-12-03 15:04
*We are now in the “You know what? Fuck it!” era of politics. This is being exhibited during elections and referenda and by politicians themselves as throwing caution to the win… Read More
2018-12-02 19:39
*As economies have moved forward, more and more complex arrangements, instruments, and machines have come into existence. For example, the reason we can make music earbuds so small now is b… Read More
2018-12-01 16:27
*According to famed conservationist E.O. Wilson, we have entered the Age of Eremocene, or, the age of loneliness. The whales have gone quiet. The mammals, the birds and… Read More
2018-11-30 00:49
*National Geographic’s Science Fair, directed by Cristina Costantini and Darren Foster, is an uplifting and inspirational film on the world’s future scientists.
Today, scie… Read More
2018-11-26 12:44
*It’s easy to see why and how Donald Trump is the most hated US President in decades, detested by Democrats and any left leaning party, some Republicans, world leaders and their adjun… Read More
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