Is there a climate connection? — Today Democratic Senator Schumer announced that the world’s largest chip manufacturer, Micron Technologies, will invest $100 billion in a massive new plant outside of Syracuse, NY. That price tag may be the largest investment ever by a US manufacturer and could create 50,000 jobs. Those are very big numbers, game…

They all voted against disaster relief, now they want it — Ron DeSantis, Matt Gaetz, Rick Scott, Marco Rubio- men without compassion. Their state is in crisis and they are playing the role of compassionate men, except…they do not have a shred of compassion between them. All voted against government FEMA relief for states and a territory whose politics disagreed with…

We can’t rebuild only to be destroyed again — I don’t want to write this. I have many friends who have realized a dream of spending winters in a warm place near the ocean. Two of them saw their homes down there destroyed this week. Fortunately they weren’t there, but that also means they could not try to protect…

We changed things, now we have to live with it — In the past few days a huge, long lasting and incredibly damaging hurricane, Ian, crawled across Florida wreaking destruction. It is just one of the extreme weather events taking place across the planet on a daily basis. These highly visible storms, fires, and floods are just one aspect of the…

It would be a Republican nightmare — Trump won in 2016 because the Democrat establishment under Clinton had totally lost touch with real life, as experienced by most Americans. It was the single biggest political blunder in my 60+ years on the planet. But we clawed back the Presidency after four disastrous years under Trump and a…

The rumor mill is grinding them out as fast as it can — Rumors. Bear in mind that everything about China right now is pretty speculative and nearly unverifiable, by design. For a media junkie like me, who nevertheless tries to avoid writing about rumors, it was hard to ignore the persistent ones about a coup. The story was fairly consistent: Xi Jinping…

Everywhere, actually — In his dystopian novel 1984, George Orwell described a world where information had become so intentionally distorted that no one could be sure of anything. Facts no longer existed. We are there now. I recently published some observations about Russia, Putin, and the Ukraine war, which in Russia can only…

By the way, life is good — Ok, that title is a teaser but there is a lot going on across our little planet. It’s easy to get absorbed by the short term craziness of guys like Putin and Trump, but there are way bigger issues if we pull back and think about it. …

He is hiding in the woods — A military enlistment center in Moscow was bombed with two Molotov cocktails this weekend. A reported 3000 Russians have been arrested for protesting mobilizations. Whole villages have been stripped of all healthy males. Crimean Tatars claim they and other ethnic minorities are being targeted for conscription. Just yesterday the Ukrainians…