This is happening. It is not hyperbole. And we need to acknowledge the track we are on. I am posting this because I live in a bubble and was not too aware of how severe the situation has gotten. Please read this. Targeting a group that is less than one…

Many people are giving Pence credit for his actions on 1/6 with some even calling his actions heroic. While I am glad that he did the right thing, I struggled to reconcile his actions on 1/6 with his complicity and enabling of Trump for the previous 5 years, his silence…

I did some quick digging on another post and will put it here too. With covid we are dealing with three slightly different viruses with 3 vastly different rates of spread which has resulted in guidance changing (not science changing its mind or flip flopping). R0 is roughly the rate…

This is a serious question. Would you consider someone who recklessly defies the science and scientific recommendations and whose defiance results in the possible loss of thousands of lives a mass murderer? You decide. To make this easier, I am only going to look at and compare the numbers of…

I have not done a movie review here so bear with me. The relevance may be understood shortly. First, a quick disclaimer and some background. I met the director and producer, Evgeny Afineevksy, after his film screenings of Winter on Fire (a Netflix documentary…

Peeragogy is a term that is being used to describe peer-to-peer learning. It is a puzzling and rather cryptic word for something we do a lot of more or less successfully. It stems from the word pedagogy which is defined on dictionary.com as: 1. the function or work of…

The current Supreme Court consists of 9 members. Trump’s appointments now make up 33% of the court. ALL of these appointments happened under suspicious circumstances that will be outlined below. It is also important to remember that, while Trump won the electoral vote, he only received only 46% of the…

Want police change? Propose that every policing killing be investigated as a civil rights violation and remove the investigation from local control and prosecutors who often have conflicts of interest. And doing this would actually be more legitimate than our current system where they are not automatically handled this way. …

Was Trump trying to overthrow the government and become a dictator? Evidence 1: Undermining elections and attempting to pressure people into changing the results. First, not all democracies are democratic so the mere act of voting does not qualify it as a democracy. Second, the integrity of elections, freedom of…