2019-07-14 12:44
I attended Friday’s Albany protest against Trump’s inhuman cruelty to migrant people. Some things one has to do.
Quite a few asked to take pictures of my sign. Maybe I should cop… Read More
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2019-07-11 13:40
“Grab them by the pussy.” I’ve striven to understand how any Americans could vote to put such a reptile in the White House.
Columnist David Brooks keeps saying America… Read More
2019-07-09 13:39
William Kennedy (now 91) is the great Albany author. Others (like Melville) have had Albany connections, but in Kennedy’s oeuvre, Albany itself holds center stage; it’s called hi… Read More
2019-07-06 21:04
Julius Caesar’s army in Gaul was not authorized to enter Italy. Crossing the Rubicon River made him an outlaw. But he then proceeded to Rome to make himself dictator. (Literally &mdash&hell…Read More
2019-07-03 12:38
(A condensed version of my June 18 book review talk)
In this 2017 book Kurt Andersen is very retro; believes in truth, reason, science, and facts. But he sees today’s Americans losing… Read More
2019-07-01 13:01
Burundi is a very fortunate country. True, they had a 12-year tribal civil war killing 300,000, but that ended in 2005. Fewer die these days. As for the economy, many Burundians are spared f… Read More
2019-06-28 12:18
That’s a phrase I remember from my legal education.
Over a year ago we learned of Trump’s cruel policy of separating migrant children from parents. Kidnapping them, really; put i… Read More
2019-06-26 22:38
A science writer friend pointed me to a recent “Edge” essay by Freeman Dyson (https://www.edge.org/conversation/freeman_dyson-biological-and-cultural-evolution). Dyson, 95, is a… Read More
2019-06-24 12:52
Joe Biden said that as a senator he’d been able to work with colleagues he’d disagreed with, even segregationists like Mississippi’s James Eastland. For this Biden’s… Read More
2019-06-21 14:31
On 9/11 we were attacked. America united fiercely, in outrage and resolve, to confront the enemy and prevent a repeat.
In 2016, a different enemy attacked us, with actually far greater damag… Read More
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