Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud is the guy who runs the show in Saudi Arabia and a ruthlessly interesting dude…
Civil Rights
Qatar’s Killer Builders
A very interesting juxtaposition slid across my attention today regarding sports-events in a Middle-Eastern nation I only know from its…
Why This Last-Minute Trump Blood-Lust?
Donald Trump has chosen to execute thirteen federal death-row inmates for no explainable reason except that he can. What could…
Why Such Angst Over the Obvious?
We know it’s not a good thing to be a liar, right? And treating people badly because they’re gay or…
The A B C’s of Non-Government
Just a preliminary reminder before we get down to cases. The United States Congress is organized in such a way…
Trump Incites Americans to Riot on January 6th
Jan. 6 is the day Congress meets to accept the presidential election results from the Electoral College. President-elect Joe Biden…
Kansas City Star Apologizes for Decades of Racist Coverage
That’s the NBC News headline I find earth-shaking in its implications. Other papers are now looking into their own racist…
Zeroing In On a Guaranteed Minimum Annual Income
MLK has been dead a half-century now but, like Shakespeare, his writings never lose their power or truth. My writing…
The 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution
Who knows what evil lurks in the small print of great documents? The 13th Amendment abolished slavery, What could be…
The Protest Pot Is on the Boil
(NY Times, July 25, 2020) SEATTLE — Weeks of violent clashes between federal agents and protesters in Portland, Ore.,…