Site Maintenance Redux (Sticky) 0
I’ve migrated to a new virtual private server and glitches happened. Follow my progress below the fold.
I started this almost 15 years ago to learn stuff. Well, I’m still learning, even when I don’t want to.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
A California Methodist Church wonders what might have happened had the Holy Family fled, not to Egypt, but to Donald Trump’s America. Here’s a bit from the news item:
Via C&L.
The Acolytes 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Dinesh Sharma interviews Dan McAdams, author of The Strange Case of Donald J. Trump, a Psychological Reckoning. In the interview, they explore the hold that Trump seems to have over his diehard followers.
I commend it to your attention. Here’s a snippet of McAdams response to a question about whether Trump might have some form of personality disorder (emphasis added):
A Notion of Immigrants 0
The Seattle Times’s Naomi Ishisaka explains “the invisible wall.” A snippet:
In the email, the official said, “My mantra has persistently been presenting aliens with multiple unsolvable dilemmas to impact their calculus for choosing to make the arduous journey to begin with.”
The Climates They Are a-Changing 0
Not to mention that we no longer have spring or fall in these parts. We just go right from summer into winter into summer again.
I fear we are well past the tipping point.
It Doesn’t Add Up 0
At the Hartford Courant, Thomas Cangelosi does the math. A snippet:
In particular, when Ambassador Gordon Sondland said he “surmised,” based on the logic of 2+2=4, that President Trump withheld military aid from Ukraine in exchange for an investigation into the 2016 elections, the President’s defenders that seemed to insist instead that 2+2=5.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
The Rude One dismembers Nikki Haley’s defense of the Stars and Bars. (Warning: Language, all of it warranted.)
International Laughingstock 0
Trudy Rubin explains. A snippet:
And so ill-informed that he could unintentionally drag America into a war.
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