I was supine on the couch, as I have been for a couple of weeks now, recovering from my very near brush with the Void. I’ve given myself, with my doctor’s blessing, permission to be in a state of “rest” — that retro condition — without guilt, for a while at least; which seems at […]
Energies, Cont. What Good and Evil Flow Around Us?
I promised God, as you recall, in the hospital where I lay nearly dying, that, if I was allowed to live, I would write the things which I most feared to write. So here we are: starting. I sought my entire career to secure a reputation as a serious, academically-trained intellectual in the post-Enlightenment tradition. […]
The Imminent Extradition of Julian Assange and the Death of Journalism
Julian Assange’s legal options have nearly run out. He could be extradited to the U.S. this week. Should he be convicted in the U.S., any reporting on the inner workings of power will become a crime. High Court Judge Jonathan Swift — who previously worked for a variety of British government agencies as a barrister and said his favorite […]
Opinion: Steven Maslow, “Ukraine and the Ironies of History”
“We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere.” –Elie Wiesel, Author of Night and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature That truth is the first casualty in war has been observed at least since the time of Aeschylus in Ancient […]
I’m not “Brave”; You’re Just a P—y.
Some people who love me advised me not to write this essay, and not to use its current title. “Take the high road,” I was advised. Usually that is a good idea, but not in this case — not at this moment. In this essay I need to talk about some people — mainly privileged […]
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency favors more energy costs for all
America, with 4.1 percent of the world’s population (330 million vs 8 billion) professes to be the leader of everything but tightening the National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS) for particulate matter is ludicrous when China, India, Indonesia, Japan, and Vietnam are sending their existing PM2.5 across the Pacific Ocean to America, particularly California, and […]
MEDICAL OPINION: “Israel Vaccinating Babies—Unethical, Unconscionable and Unnecessary”
Vacinal antibodies have a higher affinity for antigen, seeking it out to bind with it. Possibly more concerning is that these vaccines are non-sterilizing, meaning they cannot neutralize the virus. Understanding these two concepts, in this context, illustrates the ethical, moral and scientific dilemma that the COVID-19 shots have created. Children have an INNATE immune […]
“K-12 Education is The New Political Battleground!”
K-12 Public Education is the New Political Battleground! 2022’s political battleground is K-12 Education. What’s the danger to our nation due to the K-12 public school union takeover? The fight is not just to resurrect education, but to halt the eventual destruction of the Constitutional United States of America. In the early ‘90s, a distinct […]
Opinion—Trump’s New Policy on Israeli Settlements Is Illegal and Self-Serving
Thumbing his nose at the Geneva Convention, the Rome Statute, the UN Security Council, the UN General Assembly and the International Court of Justice, Donald Trump decided that Israel’s unlawful construction of Jewish settlements in occupied Palestinian territory is lawful. This policy change is part of Trump’s pattern of seeking to legalize illegal Israeli […]