What Do I Know?

This is one of those historic moments when the world will pull back from the bring of disaster or go crashing into a new world of callous de...

Sen. Lisa Murkowski said that it may be legal for state courts to disqualify former President Donald Trump from running in the 2024 election...

 On May 14, 2018 I began a blog post like this: Congressional Republicans Show Signs of Battered Wife Syndrome Medical News Today says batte...

I used to think that imaginative fiction writers (especially science-fiction) were the ones who thought up new ideas and possibilities that ...

Alaska Room 2008  A recent article by Charles Wohlforth discussed the loss of the Alaska room in the library - begun by flooding when ...

While in Seattle this last time, I got the pleasure of browsing the shelves at the Elliot Bay Book Company on Capitol Hill.  Here are some b...

the passengers would choose from several (not mutually exclusive, nor exhaustive) options: Think it's exciting to have a crazy driver...

We're headed to San Francisco in a couple of days to meet our new granddaughter who arrived Thursday.  She's inherited my mother'...

Overall, the 2016 Festival went well.  There were lots of good films, lots of visiting film makers, and some nice extra touches - like music...

As people look toward 2017 with relief that 2016 will be over, I have several thoughts. First, a lot of people probably think 2016 was gr...

People write things like, "now that he is no longer a candidate" or "once he becomes president" Trump will change with t...

Listening to Obama now in his press conference, I think there is one message that he is trying to send:  E PLURIBUS UNUM.  "Out of Many...

Prediction:  The period beginning roughly in 2017 will be known in the future for its burst of artistic creativity in music, literature, poe...

I suspect a Trump presidency would be worse than many imagine, and not as bad as some imagine.  After Bush v Gore I proposed that there be a...

Here's an  LA Times headline  on that got this post going.  "This election is much more than Trump vs. Clinton. It's old Ame...

This blog is, at its core, about how we know what we know.  We all know that different people see the world differently than we do.  We have...