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The Direction of World Politics (plus Tweets)
It's been a while, so I thought I should at least attempt a Tweets Post. There are a couple of things to catch you up on in my personal life. Firstly, things are much better now I have a decent chair. However, the damage done while I was waiting for that to happen...
Trump’s Hateful Rhetoric is Dangerous
If you’re a Trump supporter, you’re probably thinking this will be a liberal hit piece. However, my conclusion has the support of all the data. Many commentators, including myself, have been writing about the dangers of Trump's hateful rhetoric for some time. On 22...
Anti-Semitism in the US (plus Tweets)
Most days I see examples of the fact of the high level racism in the US*. In particular, there is plenty of exposure of the racism against African-, Hispanic-, Latino-, and Native-Americans on my TV screen. When it comes to the sites I look at on the internet, the...
Trump Weak on Khashoggi Disappearance
Each day for the last couple of weeks, I've been tweaking a post about Jamal Khashoggi. The post never quite gets to the completion stage, and developments overnight mean much of the post is redundant. Now, the story has been headline news for so long, as it should...
Kavanaugh: More Women Accusers
The final section of my last post, 'Kavanaugh Conformation and Ford Accusation', was "There's Never Just One Victim". (Of course, there were two in that post - Christine Blasey Ford and Debbie Ramirez.) It included a tweet from lawyer Michael Avenatti referring to...
Kavanaugh Confirmation and Ford Accusation
For days I've been trying to write a post about Professor Christine Blasey Ford's allegation that Judge Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her when the two were teens. And for days I've been deleting everything I wrote and starting again. I want to be fair. I want to...
The Trump Resistance in the White House
On 5 September (that read "yesterday" when I began this post!) the New York Times published an anonymous op-ed from a senior Trump official. He or she said they were part of a group of senior officials within the administration who are doing their best to thwart...
The NRA Bait and Switch (plus Tweets)
Since the horrific killings of Eli Clayton (21) and Taylor Robertson (27) (pictured left) at a gamer tournament in Florida, the media is full of stories about the problem with video games. We're being led to believe that it's gamer culture that's the issue here. That,...
Trump’s Anti-Media Attitude (plus Tweets)
Hi everybody. It's about time I did a post to justify my existence, so here I am. I was having a look at Twitter and found some nice tweets, and thought I could put them in a post. Then, of course, I had to think of something to write about. A fellow NZ atheist took...
Why is Trump is Expanding the Use of Asbestos in US?
This quick post about Trump and asbestos is mainly to let you know I'm still here, as well as to bring an un-effing-believable situation to your attention. I've had my new chair for about ten days. I assumed everything would be hunky-dory as soon as I got it, but it's...
Guest Post: ‘The Commonweal’ by Linda Calhoun
Virginia Kruta (left), an associate editor for the conservative Daily Caller site. wrote an article last week about attending a Democrat rally. Kruta couldn't believe what she was hearing. All these people thought the commonweal should be expanded to cover all sorts...
Update III, Helsinki, Trump, Putin, and Tweets
Hopefully, this is the last of these just-to-keep-things-ticking-over-with-some-tweets posts. Last week, I had a Needs Assessment by an Occupational Therapist. As a result, I'm expecting a new chair within the next week or so. Otherwise things are pretty much the same...