Dishonest, unethical, hypocritical, greedy, and cold-hearted behavior — The desire to have and wield unfettered power has always existed and that desire causes people to do and say things that society finds abhorrent. But we, as a society, developed standards and a veneer of civility that kept that desire hidden, creating the illusion of democracy. And, as cynical…

Maybe donors got tired of paying Donald Trump’s legal bills — Or maybe he is just scaring them off with his crazy. The Republican National Committee (RNC) is almost out of money on the eve of a Presidential election year, and as we all know, big money greases the wheels of national politics. This brings up so many questions it’s hard…

This is ridiculous. — Everything is someone else’s fault, usually someone you disagree with politically, or you read about on social media. A reminder: TikTok is a Chinese company that probably is collecting your data and the data of millions of Americans. Same for Temu. Maybe you should think about that instead of McDonald’s…

Complaining is getting us nowhere, fast — We’ve had forty years to get angry about global warming, to point fingers and identify the bad guys while communities burned and homes were swept away. It’s time to stop and reassess, because this thing is real, it’s here, and it’s not going away. There’s a reason it’s called ‘climate…

Enough with this fair and balanced crap — I write opinions. Sometimes they are observations. I’m not a journalist and I have taken no oath to be 100% fair and balanced, nor am I sticking to a single point of view. I skew liberal, sometimes progressive, but I draw a line at the idea that we need to…

Time for a national reality check — Hurricanes, fires, and floods are the common signs of climate change’s destructive force. But southern Louisiana, that Achilles Heel of the Deep South, is once again facing a climate-related threat and this one is invisible. Imagine turning on your tap and tasting salt. Now imagine an entire region, the Mississippi…

Radical wind shift in China this week — Xi Jinping, leader and dictator of China, read the tea leaves this week, met with Joe Biden, and just like that things changed in China’s attitude towards the US. It’s a remarkable thing and the Biden campaign people need to figure out how to talk about it. They are not…

I can’t because it’s not that simple — Dead children are why. A dead child represents the death of hope, and there is no hope in this terror turned war. And no matter whose casualty counts we use, there are a lot of dead children on both sides. I can’t take the side of anyone killing children or…

Another thing we can’t do a damn thing about — Line ’em up: fear, fire, foes. Climate change, terrorism, prejudice, intolerance, political chaos, and now…super volcanos? Yikes. Yes, there is such a thing and if they blow, we are all screwed. Live anywhere in the Pacific Northwest of the US and Canada? Yellowstone sits on a super volcano. How about…