On March 6, my birthday last year, I was up in Vermont with my family. At the time my son was working for a big biotech firm. About five days earlier, that firm had had a meeting of all of their big players in big hotel meeting room in Boston…

A Kleptocracy is the goal — There have been very few times in US history when the American government has not been run by, and for, the very wealthy. In 1907, before there were graduated income taxes, and before there was a debt limit, J.P. …

Quite an essay. A few radical students on the left are not the equivalent of the constant march to fascism of the Republican Party. I certainly agree that the wealth gap is ruining the country as some of the very rich are using gobs of money to buy Congress. They have already bought the Supreme Court. Your fear poster is fantastic. Are you selling them?

If he wasn’t a dangerous sociopath he could be on late-night TV — I watched the CNN Trump Town Hall fiasco. It was an amazing display. The man was a fireball of energy. He delivered most of his lines flawlessly, with power and emotion. My mind flashed to a very old comedy routine called The 2000-Year-Old Man, performed by Mel Brooks and Carl…

One of the biggest flaws of human evolution is that people have learned to survive as individuals, families, and tribes. Beyond that, humans have a great deal of difficulty caring about people they don't know. At this moment, we are witnessing another genocide, white the elimination of 1000s of species of animals, fish, bugs and plants, hardly registers on the consciousness of 98% of the human population.

I think that “Senioritis” is not only important, it is necessary. It will happen no matter what you try to do. The last semester of high school is really the end of protective childhood. Whether the kid is going to college, work, or the military, life is going to be…

What people don’t realize is that there are about 29 states that are no longer part of democratic America. They are colonies of Big fossil fuel companies, mining, timber, or corporate agriculture. There are no family farms, with people who hold conservative beliefs. These industries own the governments. They exploit the resources, take the money, and offer their citizens fewer and fewer benefits. Now they are restricting their rights while they limit, or even eliminate education. This is what the Europeans did in Africa two hundred years ago.

Again, and again, and again, and again Even though I strongly disagree with how greedy and racist the Republican Party has become, I understand the emotions, and I know those emotions have been a major force in America for 300 years. I have some vague idea that owning guns and…

What has become apparent is that the Republicans know that they have nothing to sell besides, white supremacy, guns, greed and racism. That means they have to rely on aggression, fraud, voter suppression, fear and lies. If that doesn’t work, violence. Still, it amazes me that people who got elected…