It’s obvious where this is going as you’ve nicely sketched the possibilities. Pardoning a low grade, vicious criminal such as Arpaio made no sense except as a signal that the Trump gang is going for the big time. They know that Mueller is closing in and their only option is to gut the constitution and destroy the rule of law.

The sad story of the honest conservative

They appear around the edges of online communities looking for shelter. Soon they will…

The Consequences of Ignorance Come Home to Roost

An excellent article that provides a clear look at the history of the US in the Japanese WW2 theater and the history of Korea positioned against that. The basic and recurring problem is the absence of knowledge beyond propaganda. This is a…

Building on the Medium Model

Folks, the Medium Partnership model is a good thing. While I’ve been known to raise questions about the value of a clap, the appropriate number of claps, and the near inevitability of clap inflation (I almost said inflammation but that would have been a distraction). This is…

The dude is dead

I really appreciate a fairly mainstream article that works itself up to calling capitalism necrotic. For some reason I doubt whether the people who react to discussions on the failure of capitalism with versions of William Gibson’s “semiotic ghosts” have any idea what necrotic means or semiotic for…

I wish I could just say your response was a pleasure to read, though it was, but we are discussing a self inflicted human tragedy the implications of which are truly frightening. Your description of that tragedy in its basic form is exact. Its manipulation for crude, personal gain, has been built on a foundation of denial of the principles that we…

The disappearing act

I am particularly taken with the invisibleness of the Trump supporters. What few there are have no power except the idea that they have power. It is the concept of fiat currency in the political world. Everyone is frightened of their power but it exists only because of that fear.

Thanks for the question. Yes, in other less heated articles, I make a clear distinction between religion and spirituality. There is a growing acceptance of that distinction although the failure to recognize that is the cause of much confusion. My concern is with religion as a set of antiquated forms of spirituality that has become nearly completely…

Who wins?

Interesting question about other candidates. The historical record suggests that large changes don’t happen. The structure of the federal government is on civil service management. Political appointees are superstructure. That makes it possible to have an executive level that is near complete incompetence…

The specific Stanford study claiming sexual orientation detection from machine has done wonders for waking people up to the issue. Apple, Google and Facebook are taking clear advantage of a very new situation in that they can implement AI based systems that are so far beyond the understanding of the general population that people simply ignore them…