LGBTQUIA+ . . . ROYGBIV
2018-06-11 – Roy G. Biv is a mnemonic for the colors of the rainbow: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet. Not all languages have words for these exact colors. […]
Tag Archives: Politics
Trolling the Trolls – Why Liberals Should Stop Hating the Right
2018-06-07 – I kinda got into it with a liberal Facebook group the other day. They posted a graph purporting to show that white Evangelical Christians have no redeeming qualities. […]
I Don’t Believe (Most) Flat-Earthers Believe the Earth Is Flat
2018-05-31 – I don’t believe (most) flat-earthers believe the Earth is flat. (I qualify this with the word “most” because I’m sure you can find someone who is a true […]
Having Strong Opinions When You Don’t Have Much Stake in the Outcome
2018-05-21 – People in this country have a lot of opinions. In the world of politics, most of us don’t have much of a personal stake in a lot of […]
US Embassy Should Have Been in Jerusalem for Decades . . . Why Now?
2018-05-14 – Waiting for the perfect day to open the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem was like waiting for the messiah (or the second coming, if you are Christian). That day […]
Impeachment Is Not a Winning Issue for Dems or the Country, Unless . . .
2018-05-10 – Unfortunately, the US Constitution does not provide for a vote of no confidence. That would be entirely political: the leader drops below 50 percent approval and there’s a […]
How Do You Reason with the Anti-Religious
2018-05-10 – I have a number of friends (real and Facebook) who are anti-religion. I mean ANTI-RELIGION. They see religions as the main provocateurs of racial and ethnic strife, not […]
Listening to the Other Side
2018-04-26 – We live in a world of contradictions. We are more interconnected than ever in history, but the freedom of the internet has allowed us to sort ourselves in […]
Yom HaAtzmaut . . . Or Yawm an-Nakba?
* 2018-04-19 – Today was Yom HaAtzmaut—Israeli Independence Day (on the Hebrew calendar—May 14 on the English calendar). It marks the 70th anniversary of the formal founding of the State […]
Small Houses, Big Houses
2018-04-16 – My dog Lefty likes to be in the way. That’s probably not the way he would put it. He would probably say that he likes to sleep in […]
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