Right-wing Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro sounds a lot like some South Dakota Republicans in his disdain for higher education. He’s threatening to yank state support…
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As a Catholic and a fireman, my friend Joe Lowe can speak with much more authority than I can about the conflagration that devastated la…
Deux fois j’ai visité Paris et vu, de mes yeux vu, la Cathédrale de Notre Dame, qui aujourd’hui s’est brûlée.
Depuis 850 ans, c’était magnifique. Ce sera encore magnifique.
Point of personal privilege: Star Wars is awesome! I don’t geek out often on these humble electronic pages… although I suppose one could argue that we who…
If America really doesn’t want refugees any more, we could reduce the number of people who must flee their homes by getting serious about mitigating…
Bicyclists, sub-human? Researchers at Monash University in Australia showed subjects two versions of the famous evolutionary progress poster—one showing creatures rising from ape to man,…
What happens when corporations convince the government to cede its regulatory authority and let corporations oversee themselves? Planes revolt against their pilots, and people die:…
In a lesson for Americans seeking responsive government, a Trumpist white supremacist (that’s redundant) shoots 49 people to death in New Zealand, and New Zealand…
Let’s stop pretending that Archie Bunker (i.e., you, redneck reader) is smart enough to be President. Donald Trump has had two years to test that…
A gasoline pipeline blew up in the Mexican state of Hidalgo last night, killing (as counted at the moment of this writing) 66 people. But…