What Do I Know?

The previous post, Farrago , meandered into the power struggles in the US and the assault on science in favor of fantastic explanations of t...

[This was written Sept. 22, but I wrote it under Pages instead of Posts.  Pages are the tabs up above (and below the banner.  So I'm add...

Suppose you're still buying the same brand of cereal your mom bought for you.   But after years of loyalty, you've noticed that it n...

A link to Capacious led me into a rabbit hole that didn't let go for several hours.  As an academic, I found the first story too real a...

This is an important interview by Brian Taylor Cohen, one of the brightest and most articulate commentators (I want to say on the air, and h...

Bear with me for a bit. (Or don't and just scroll down to JUMP TO HERE below.) I've been learning Turkish on Duolingo for a while.  ...

I started to write first impressions of the shots toward the ex-president Saturday night, but I decided to wait til there was more informati...

I talked to someone who is strongly anti-Trump the other day and he was also adamant about replacing Biden as the Democratic candidate.   My...

 He looked and sounded older than he did four years ago.   So what?   He's a decent man.  He's had a good life with some terrible tr...

The first has excerpts of James Baldwin speaking at Cambridge University in 1965 about growing up in a country that has no place for him.   ...

In a story about dogs biting mail carriers on June 7, the Anchorage Daily News   reported that Los Angeles had the most dog bites and more t...

This is Part IV on this topic.  Previously: Preview:   GUERRILLA WARFARE - A brief discussion of guerrilla warfare, then you can watch the c...