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Zeug Thanks for that info on Agenda 47. It’s not all bonkers. Enforcing existing gun laws, for instance. But it’s terrifyingly politicised. So much for justice being blind, eh? I mean, even if we set aside the […]

Hi Michael Well, I wouldn’t pit my knowledge of the US legal system against yours, obviously. And I genuinely want to be wrong about this, for obvious reasons.. I just think of some of the stuff in Project 2025 […]

This news story is from just over a week ago, but it really does underscore just how differently politics works these days and how urgently conventional politicians, journalists and pollsters need to wake up to […]

Michael Now this pardon of his son gives new meaning to faux pas. Social blunder? The that hardly cuts it. This tops Ford’s pardon of Nixon. Keep in mind, he promise he wouldn’t do it. I know where you […]

Aroundtown I’m so glad if my comments have helped you in any way at all. In the light of your reply, I just want to add something else before I call it a day and go to bed (it’s late now where I am). The mai […]

Thanks, Michael – there are some things we can only know from experience. I just hope Aroundtown finds it helpful to be able to draw on mine and my fellow survivors’, and that his daughter has as good an outcome a […]

Aroundtown I’ve found out that the tumor was cancer and that stripped away my initial hopes. Now she will need chemotherapy and radiation therapy and as with anyone facing this type of situation you hope for t […]

That’s wonderful news, Aroundtown. I’m so relieved for you all. Fingers now tightly crossed for an encouraging pathology result. Please do keep us posted.

Aroundtown You’ll have far more important things going on today, but if you do happen to look in at any point, know that we are thinking of you and your daughter today and hoping all goes well with her surgery. […]

Michael Secular humanists will probably agree with what I’ve written. But, too often we go along with the gag, going to parties and celebrations, exchanging gifts, and other seemingly innocent practices “in the […]

Michael Excellent! Thanks for that. I’ve just followed them on Bluesky (the newish social media platform that’s gained millions of new users since the election thanks to a huuuuge exodus from Musk’s Twitter.)

I’m not familiar with New Republic, so don’t know how reliable it is, but what fun if this is true! And even if it isn’t – there’s no way this bunch of egotistical, self-interested, power-hungry sociopaths are go […]

Strato Nov 17, 2024 at 12:36 pm Just for info (and clarity!), Michael was quoting me (quoting someone else!!) when he wrote “This isn’t a Cabinet … This is a junk drawer”, and it was Michael, not me, who […]

Zeug Careful! If Marco’s around, them’s fightin’ words! 😀 Ha! 😄 Them’s totally understandable words expressing a totally understandable stress response. I just very much doubt they express the conclusions […]

Strato Kennedy is Trump’s pick to head the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), not the FDA as I said it was. I’ve just seen a post elsewhere: “This isn’t a Cabinet … This is a junk drawer.”

Zeug Nov 14, 2024 at 7:16 pm That’s such an interesting post! And it makes perfect sense: disapproval severely limits our capacity for empathy. I suspect we can all instinctively relate to this. Interesting, t […]

Aroundtown Nov 13, 2024 at 4:47 pm Hey, Aroundtown, it was only a mistake to share what you’re going through if doing so has made things more difficult for you. But I hope it hasn’t. I know none of us have eve […]

Michael Ramaswamy is a critic of environmental, social, and corporate governance initiatives Aaaarrrrggggghhhh. This is what happens when we put everything in the hands of corporations AND view their only […]

Strato But the Resistance is getting up. I do hope so. But another oligarch, whom Reich doesn’t name, is owner of News Corp(oration), and son, even upstaging the old man. Sir media magnate has devoted h […]

Me too, Aroundtown. I can only imagine the stress you and your family are going through right now. So glad your daughter is getting the care she needs, and from the best possible specialists. We’ll all be rooting […]