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Monthly Archives: July 2018

Friday Night Music

Friday, July 27, 2018

So, posting will be even more infrequent, as we just began our annual Vermont vacation. I don’t know if I ever posted anything by Rhiannon Giddens before, but she is well worth a return trip. I think she’s great, and I’m going to get the new album, from which this song is taken, as soon […]

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Book Report

Thursday, July 26, 2018

As I write this, I’m reading Stephen Pinker’s Enlightenment Now. I’ve read at least five of his previous books. I’ve always found his work thought provoking, and this one is too. I recommend it, with a major caveat. The basic theme of the book is that we need to return to Enlightenment values; that the Enlightenment […]

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I got mail

Wednesday, July 25, 2018

Today I got a piece of mail with no return address, but I knew it was important because it had strict instructions on the envelope that it should be delivered only to me and that it should not be destroyed. So, of course, I hastened to open it, and found it was a letter personally […]

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It’s a funny old world

Tuesday, July 24, 2018

According to Mark Zuckerberg, a logo with the word “sex” in it is too too offensive, and must be taken down, with the perpetrator banned for 30 days. On the other hand, holocaust denial is regrettable, but won’t be removed, because, after all, they’re not “ intentionally getting it wrong”.

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Friday Night Music

Friday, July 20, 2018

Now for something completely different. This is going around, but I thought I’d pass it along for anyone who hasn’t already seen it. This guy is brilliant.

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Quotes of the day

Friday, July 20, 2018

I just finished reading a new translation of the Bhagavad-Gita, which I last read, in a different translation, back in my ultra-hippie days. For those unfamiliar with the story line, it takes place on a battlefield. The two main characters are Arjuna, a warrior, and Krishna, his charioteer, who, it turns out, is actually an avatar […]

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Treason this week, forgotten next week

Tuesday, July 17, 2018

The reaction to Trump’s press conference with Putin was so negative that even the folks at Fox joined in the initial wave of disgust, though over the course of the next few days they’ll surely come around. Still, it is not every day that a former director of the CIA accuses a sitting President of treason. […]

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Little Trumpie on his best behavior

Sunday, July 15, 2018

We were away for the weekend, so it was not until a few hours ago that I say this article in the New London Day about Trump’s visit to England. On line, the story is titled, appropriately, Protests, diplomatic backflips mark Trump’s visit to England. But I saw it first in the printed newspaper, where the title […]

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Lies and the Lying Liars that tell them

Thursday, July 12, 2018

It looks like the loathsome former wrestling coach and now Congress critter Jim Jordan’s attempts to deny knowledge of sexual abuse by a team doctor, Dr. Strauss, are falling apart, and even his attempt to use the “locker room talk” defense is probably not going to stand up.  Jordan was an assistant coach, and the […]

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There’s something happening here

Sunday, July 8, 2018

This is bad enough: A resolution to encourage breast-feeding was expected to be approved quickly and easily by the hundreds of government delegates who gathered this spring in Geneva for the United Nations-affiliated World Health Assembly. Based on decades of research, the resolution says that mother’s milk is healthiest for children and countries should strive […]

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