Asking the wrong question In the words of: Robert Harrington | 10:00 pm EDT May 7, 2022 As a civilized people we enact legislation to protect ourselves. One standard for deciding whether or not a thing should become enshrined in law was best enunciated by Thomas Jefferson in “Notes on the State of Virginia,” when he was…
WE MUST STOP THE BULLIES Our duty in a civil society is to stop brutality. Our responsibility is to hold the powerful accountable. Our moral obligation is to protect the vulnerable. Consider the pattern: Putin invades Ukraine. Trump refuses to concede and promotes his Big Lie. Rightwing politicians in America and Europe…
Image credit: “Icon of the laborers in the vineyard,” Ted at Flickr, Creative Commons ShareAlike 2.0 Generic. Thanks in no small part to folks like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders, everyone is talking about socialism these days. Unfortunately, many Christians seem to be under the impression that socialism is at odds with their faith. Plenty of…
The real proof of just how screwed Russia’s economy is Bill Palmer | 9:09 am EST March 1, 2022 Palmer Report » Analysis The Russian ruble is in freefall, and the Russian stock market apparently isn’t even opening this week, for fear it’ll fully collapse if it does. But if you want real proof that the Russian economy is screwed to…
Biden Fixed Trump’s Social Security Debacle Stepping into the role of President of the United States is challenging under any circumstances. However, when Joe Biden was sworn in a year ago, he also had to begin the colossal task of cleaning up the debris left by a twice-impeached, channel-surfing wrecking ball. A recent development…
The Amazingly Cool Anna’s Hummingbird Scoffs at Winter Vancouver’s official bird is a sex-crazed, smart, supercharged recent arrival. Written by Kerry Banks Today Dec. 27, 2021 | in TheTyee.ca Kerry Banks is an award-winning magazine journalist and author. His works include Pavel Bure: The Riddle of the Russian Rocket and record books on hockey, baseball and…
The Book Club That Helped Spark the Gay-Rights Movement In the nineteen-fifties, the Cory Book Service quietly connected a community. Then it was forgotten. By Michael Waters October 5, 2021 APPEARED IN THE NEW YORKER In the late nineteen-thirties, Gonzálo Segura, known to his friends as Tony, enrolled at Emory University to study biochemistry. He graduated…
Donald Trump’s Legacy of Death The whim of a sufficiently powerful but lazy, stupid and transactional narcissist can sometimes make or break the world. On the day of Donald Trump’s first public utterance about Covid-19, January 22, 2020, he said, “We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from Chy-na. It’s…
Cassandra’s Curse DC Rapier | 11:45 pm EDT September 5, 2021 Palmer Report » Community In Greek mythology, Cassandra was cursed by the gods. She was given the ability to accurately predict the future. Sound good? It wasn’t; the curse included the fact that her predictions would be ignored. No one listened to her. No one heeded her warnings.…
CODE RED Robert Harrington | 7:00 pm EDT August 10, 2021 Palmer Report » Analysis The debate has been over for some time now: humans are responsible for climate change. But if anyone needed some significant body to make it official, the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has done just that. What’s more, they have now…
