Engaging Life with Courage and Intelligence
Cookies can represent and fulfill many functions. Among them are to make people happy and to be used in hypothetical exercises. The President’s wife wrote Putin a letter about the children stolen during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, so we can imagine that a few Russian soldiers have compassion for these Ukrainian orphans. Cookies can…
American culture has a blind spot or a fatal flaw in its response to unproductive, sensational, or cancerous behavior. Today, many Americans celebrate and implicitly support people who act stupidly, immorally, and even criminally. They gravitate towards celebrities who promote chaos and away from those who are boringly competent. Our social media algorithms are aware…
This is another confirmation that the Trump regime is marching the USA toward a Chinese-style form of state capitalism. Trump’s economic advisor, Kevin Hassett, confirmed the possibility that the federal government was beginning to act like a sovereign wealth fund that interjects political leaders into corporate financing and decision-making. Hassett deflected the slippery slope fear…
Mike Johnson, the smooth-talking Congressman from Louisiana, is our nation’s 56th Speaker of the House. He entered Congress on January 3, 2017. Before then, he served in the Louisiana legislature and worked for a conservative Christian group called the Alliance Defending Freedom. The four most vulnerable states due to the Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill Act,…
President Trump recently called in the cavalry to rescue Washington, DC. A member of his DOGE squad (aka, Big Balls…that’s what Trump calls him) was mugged, and Trump had an excuse to call in the National Guard to make Washington safe again. He claimed he has a mandate to reduce the violent crimes in this…
The Ultimate Fighting Championship will host an event on the White House lawn on July 4, 2026, to honor the sacrifices of founding fathers like George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and John Madison. The fights will be conducted inside an octagon-shaped metal chain-link fence. The cage will be about thirty feet in diameter and…
Instead of “firing up” or improving American capitalism, President Trump is firing or humbling America’s CEOs. Instead of continuing or improving the capitalism that energized America for 250 years, Trump is transforming it into some version of state capitalism. Wikipedia defines state capitalism as “An economic system in which the state acts as a dominant…
The Caterpillar and Alice looked at each other for some time in silence: At last the Caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth and addressed Alice in a languid, sleepy voice. “Who are you?” said the Caterpillar. Alice replied, rather shyly, “I—I hardly know, sir, just at present—at least I know who I was…
Will the ghost of Adlai Stevenson run in 2028? For those who care about the past, the Democratic Party was the dominant party in the US Congress from 1948 until 1980. The weaker Republican Party gained small advantages in both houses only once in Eisenhower’s first election in 1952. In the other 15 Congressional elections,…
The translation of the news flash in Spanish is “Dictatorships Do Not Function.” For anyone who believes that authoritarian regimes are good for anyone but the dictator and his family, there is a perfect example to bet against authoritarians. The BBC, NPR, Al Jazeera, and South Korea’s intelligence service—consistently cite an initial North Korean deployment…