Can it happen here?

Actually this should probably be titled something like "domesticity at a quiet moment."  The beasts are often not so settled. Erud...

The United States is not only failing to "win" but also actively losing Donald Trump's glorious new iteration of a Middle East...

Somebody asked the AI chatbot  Claude Opus 4.6 what it is like to be a Large Language Model.   Seems to be busy -- and importantly, is empha...

There's a tongue-in-cheek joke that our wars are how Americans learn what little we know about global geography. Apparently the Orange T...

There was a lot of life in those long years: wife and partner to Eddie Specht for over 70 of them, mother to three children in the 1950s, do...

A Pew Research Center survey in twenty-five countries asked respondents "to rate the morality and ethics of others in their country....

This thoughtful young man, Mik Barnes, mulls over the discovery that his ancestors include white men who fought for the Confederate States t...

Jay Kuo is a lawyer, a besotted father, a playwright, and chair of the Human Rights Campaign. He's also an acute observer of these distr...

A lot happening out there in the disintegrating USofA and beyond, but this catches a lot of it. That is all.  

"Last week, as New Scientist reported that leading A.I. models kept recommending nuclear strikes during war-game exercises, the Depa...

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar has spent a lifetime being alternately denounced for choosing to be himself by converting from Catholicism to Islam whil...

Obituaries marking the passing of runner and entrepreneur  Jeff Galloway reminded me again of how much I owe to the generation of accomplis...

The key to understanding the Orange Toddler's excellent Persian adventure is to gaze at events from the appropriate distance. That dista...

  There is no moral excuse for "a preventive war." The leaders of the Episcopal Church apparently understood that in 1952 . This w...

Pity the unhappy people of Iran, involuntary extras in evil men's fantasy theatrics. Or maybe I should say who are the target of an unco...

That's right. A headline a former Buffalonian can love: I don't miss winter. But this San Franciscan sure understands.  Once upon a ...

And our Orange Toddler of a president, doesn't like that. Some days the only bit of day to day media coverage I can stomach are the offe...

It poured and poured cold rain as the crowd waited for the Presidential candidate. And then he finally showed up, hours late. Based on the r...

They keep thinking of further ways to punish people violating, or existing, outside their picture of what America means. I had not thought o...

So after a week of this virus and sick of hacking up mucus, I consulted Dr.Google. This doesn't seem false: I sure as hell don't int...