Will the Covid-19 pandemic drastically decimate the population? Maybe this virus is the earth’s antibody against the human infection that is otherwise on a sure path to destroying pretty much everything. Am I upset about…
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The Afterlife
Do I believe in an afterlife? The first thing I notice is that I’m having trouble with the phrase “believe in”. The phrase has the connotation of “believing that there is” in spite of a lack of conclusive evidence. I think it originated in the controversy over the…
Green New Deal: Forget about climate change
Our ecological concerns have been thrown into a single basket labeled “Climate Change”, which has given the oligarchic pillagers and rapists the tactical advantage of having only a single target. All they have to do…
My Candidate for 2020
Many pundits are fond of saying that it’s not enough to run a campaign based on being against Trump. That is true, but it’s equally true that such a campaign must include opposition to Trump…
“Wah wah.” Schultz, Bloomberg and the rest of you cough it up. Pay more in taxes.
POSTED FEBRUARY 2, 2019 RICHARD LEHMANN (Reprinted with permission) I have little sympathy for billionaires like Howard Schultz and other one-percenters who complain that raising their taxes is unfair while millions of their underpaid employees scrape by…
Other Ways of Knowing
A critical faculty for any organism, is the ability to get an accurate sense of the pertinent realities in its environment. It has to be able to identify enemies and to distinguish food from poison.…
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