Category Archives: Politics
I’m feeling outraged and depressed (because politics), plus it’s up to -2 outside (from -10 this morning), so I’m feeling very lazy about writing a post. (And I’m going to have to go out into the chill and shovel the light snowfall off my sidewalk and driveway. Brr!)
Therefore I’m offering up a lightly edited political piece I’ve had sitting in my folder of potential posts… since 2012. Which makes it both outdated and yet oddly still relevant. It’s a short piece, originally intended to be a Brain Bubble, but I’m just going to throw it out there as a regular post.
It’s a rumination on the differences between Left and Right in politics.
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10 Comments | tags: conservative, Democrat, progressive, Republican | posted in Politics
British author and philosopher Aldous Huxley blew my mind with what seemed like his incredible prescience in Brave New World (1932). In my post last December, thinking about our recent politics and social tone, I commented: “For a novel written 88 years ago, it’s surprisingly prescient and relevant.”
The novel impressed me so much I bought the series of essays Huxley published almost 30 years later, Brave New World Revisited (1959). So far, I’ve only read the first five (so many distractions these days), but the apparent prescience continues to astound and astonish me.
I qualify that with “apparent” because it’s actually as old as humanity.
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6 Comments | tags: Aldous Huxley, Brave New World | posted in Politics, Society
The Wednesday Wow posts have been a bit off the beam recently. Four weeks ago we were wowed (but not in a good way) by an incited insurrection by an incompetent imbecile. Two weeks ago we were wowed (in a great way) by the inclusive Inauguration of the incoming Individual.
With all that more or less behind us, I have time to be wowed by interesting (and depressing) information about the insidious infection infesting the country and the world. I mention both because I became intrigued by difference between them.
It all started when I noticed the COVID-19 graphic on CNN.
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8 Comments | tags: charts, COVID-19, graphs | posted in Politics, Society, Wednesday Wow
Today the sun simultaneously set and rose. We had our own democratic version of: “The King is dead! Long live the King!” (An old phrase apt given the deposed would-be kinglet.)
I imagine many of us will go to sleep happier tonight than we have in years.
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17 Comments | tags: Amanda Gorman, Amy Klobuchar, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, President Biden, Presidential Inauguration, Vice-President Harris | posted in Politics, Wednesday Wow
At long last we can be proud to have humans leading our nation again.
At long last we can finally breath again.
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15 Comments | tags: Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, President Biden, Presidential Inauguration | posted in Politics
I keep thinking about the 71+ million Americans who voted against nearly everything American has stood for until the last few years. Our Continental Divide may be beautiful to behold, but our National Divide is an ugly disgrace to normative values.
At least they have been our values until now.
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22 Comments | tags: conservative, Democrat, Democratic Party, election 2020, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Never Trump, progressive, Republican, Republican Party | posted in Politics, Society
And congrats to the First Dogs (elect), Very Good Boys Champ and Major.
How great to have four-legged furry friends back in the White House! (I’ve long thought a love of dogs and a good character are correlated. Guess which POTUS hates dogs.)
Stay with dogs, my friends! Go forth and spread beauty and light.
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3 Comments | tags: dogs, Joe Biden | posted in Politics
Fell asleep reading a Nero Wolfe novel and woke up to a new world. Pennsylvania and Nevada called, Arizona still breaking for Biden/Harris…
Pretty nice thing to wake up to!
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40 Comments | tags: election 2020, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris | posted in Politics
Well, we kinda knew this was going to happen, but it’s still a pretty damn dark day for Our Democracy.
There seems reason for optimism, but in these crazy times, who knows how this all shakes out.
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8 Comments | tags: election 2020, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Never Trump | posted in Politics
It’s official: Based on available data, the resolution to the Fermi Paradox is simply that intelligent life does not exist in the universe at this time.
Life that thinks it’s intelligent does, though. But based on our observations, it has a long way to go. The universe can relax; Earthlings aren’t likely to be a problem to anyone but themselves.
13 Comments | tags: election 2020, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Never Trump | posted in Life, Politics
