Archives for 2022

There are a lot of proposals being floated and upping the age of gun* ownership is one of them. I just commented on this a week ago. At stake (presently) is whether 18-year-olds should be able to purchase semi-automatic rifles. I recognize the science that suggests that the part of a teen’s brain that manages rational […]

The idea that gas prices are going up by design has gone from reactionary and kook-conspiracy theory to now, frequent statements by congressmen and conservative news outlets declaring it as the only logical fact. But of course, they’re right and have been right all along. The only thing that was ever in question for those […]

Unfortunately, I must weigh in among hundreds of thousands of others in the wake of the Uvalde, Texas school shootings, but this is not a catastrophe impulse; rather a measured attempt to illuminate what I see as missed by others. Outrage at guns is of course widespread immediately following a mass casualty tragedy. Its axiomatic when […]

I’m here to point out an irony, or perhaps it’s a twist of fate. The Supreme Court used to be an unexciting place, at least as viewed by the public. With many of the cases, you’d need a law degree to understand their significance. They vetted and pondered cases behind closed doors for months until […]

In May 2022, the war in Ukraine drags on and you almost must go looking for it on the news sites; nevertheless, it breaks through via collateral damage caused by the fighting. As I had pointed out recently, world food supplies are now of primary concern. The clock is ticking and according to Zelensky, there are […]

Language is a sword, and your opponent knows it There are certain words presently in vogue that are used with dumbfounding frequency and aggression. ‘Nazi’ and a few related terms have been driven into oblivion as a metaphor. ‘Clown’ got old for me in about two seconds. But there is one word beat within an […]