The World Ends With A Snigger
The other day, I read about the 6th IAA Planetary Defense Conference in Washington, DC. It was one of several gatherings at which scientists get together and asked the question, “What could we do if it looked as if an asteroid was about to impact the earth?” It is, of course, an important querry because…
Read MoreAdios Cuban Relations
The Trump Administration has now made it extremely more difficult for the average American to take a visit to Cuba. Diplomatic relations with Cuba were restored under Obama’s administration in 2014. Most visits that have gone on since 2014 have been granted under “people to people”. In other words Americans going to meet with Cuban…
Read MoreAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the future of whiteness
So, the other day, I found myself asking Martha, my wife, a very stupid question. That’s not unusual, of course. Stupid questions are among the things I do best. But, my particular question involved Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the young and articulate New York Rep. At the time, she had just recently gone back to her old…
Read MoreThe STEM Fraud
Right now, you’d think that there was no occupation in the world that doens’t have something to do with STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math), or, at least, in the business management of such professions. Students everywhere are pressured to STEM-it, particularly young women, for whom a career in STEM is regarded as both as…
Read MoreHow to “Parental Lock” Fox News
There’s an amusing article over on Slate.com called “Daughters Don’t Let Their Mothers Watch Fox News”. Have you found yourself in that very awkward situation where your parents are watching way too much Fox News and being fully propagandized? Are they now angry for all the wrong reasons and well on their way to becoming…
Read MoreMore Like Lord Of The Rings
Last month, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) made the rather hysterically funny comment that the current GOP resembles “‘The Office character Dwight Schrute, a power-hungry, mustard yellow shirt-wearing paper salesman who lives on a beet farm” (to quote Huffpost). Honestly, truth be told and full disclosure…I didn’t get the joke at first. I don’t watch The Office.…
Read MoreThe Silencer …and death
Frightening article over on the Washington Post: Why the shooting in Virginia Beach sets an ominous precedent by Juliette Kayyem. She notes that in the most recent of the mass murders which our nation has suffered…which the NRA assures us we can do nothing to stop…the killer used a silencer on at least one of…
Read MoreMeme: Heroes Of Hong Kong
From Marc Keyser *** Marc Keyser is a writer and activist who has pioneered the use of the cellphone as an instrument of mass protest. The opinions expressed here are his own. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
Read MoreKFC: Comic Genius
On the remote chance you haven’t heard about him already, check out Kentucky Fried Chicken’s newest stunt, the virtual colonel. The company has a long history of cleverly lampooning itself, and the world, with advertising that sometimes featured and sometimes mocked its founder, the white suited Colonel Sanders. However, in recent months, KFC has outdone…
Read MoreMeme: Holy War From The Right
From Marc Keyser *** Marc Keyser is a writer and activist who has pioneered the use of the cellphone as an instrument of mass protest. The opinions expressed here are his own. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
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