Why I Don't Blame Biden for Pardoning His Son (VIDEO)
Below the video, a concise text hitting the main points.YouTube VideoI think that -- under the current circumstances of the battle for power in America, where the American people utterly fail to reward...
View ArticleTwo Habits I’m Trying—But So Far Failing -- to Break
This piece is appearing as an op/ed in newspapers in the very red congressional district (VA-06) in which I ran as the Democratic nominee in 2012.*********************************Feeling connected with...
View ArticleThree Cases: The Slave Power, the Nazi Regime, & Today's Republican Party...
“Evil” can be usefully defined as “a coherent force that consistently works to make the human world worse.” (Or, “to make the human world more broken.”)I hope you’ll agree that if such a “coherent...
View ArticleRegard "Evil-doers" Like the Loved -- but Rabid -- Dog, "Old Yeller" (VIDEO)
In the 1957 film, "Old Yeller," a boy love his dog. But the dog gets rabies (in the process of saving the boy's life, no less). And the boy, still loving the dog, must kill him.That's how, ideally, we...
View ArticleWhy Aren't Liberals Better Fighters? (13-minute VIDEO)
Factors discussed: Belief systems, in which "fighting" is regarded as "wrong." Fear, feeling vulnerable to being hurt and bested; lacking the fire in the belly to go toe-to-toe.The dynamics...
View ArticleSo Many INEVITABILITIES in the Human Story
The future of humankind is uncertain: we can't know whether our species will get its act together well enough for human civilization to survive on this planet for the long haul or whether we will...
View ArticleHow Thoroughly Subservient to Trump Will Senate Republicans Be? (11-Minute...
They've shown a few signs of life lately, but history gives little ground for hope they'll stand up to a lawless, destructive, fascistic President. YouTube VideoFor a collection of my written works,...
View ArticleThe American People Are Now the Main Reservoir of the Nation's Brokenness...
The people didn't get this messed up on their own. The propagandists of the right worked for years to make Conservative America this detached from reality, and this estranged from their own traditional...
View ArticleWray Surrenders. Is There Nobody Who Will FIGHT This Evil? (VIDEO and Text)
Here is a video In which I weave together the interconnected stories of ** Wray resigning, rather than making Trump fire him, or -- MUCH BETTER -- rather than fighting Trump on his effort to...
View ArticleSo Disturbing to Witness One's People Turning Toward Evil
I live in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley. 2:1 Republican. In the 1990s, I did hundreds of hours of talk radio conversations with the conservative, traditionalist, often fundamentalist, Republican,...
View ArticleIt Turns Out, Having a "Big Picture" Understanding Can Really Matter (Text...
I have decades of experience now in how our contemporary culture of intellectual understanding has little interest in finding Big Ideas to illuminate the Big Picture of what’s going on in the Human...
View ArticleOur Disinformation Problem Exemplifies the Dangers of Game-Changing...
I just made this video, exploring a new idea I’m pondering: that game-changing technologies are inherently dangerous, because they (maybe) inevitably create opportunities for destructive forces to gain...
View ArticleWhy Do We See So Much Cowardice Displayed on Today's American Stage (TEXT and...
Here’s the 18-minute video. Description follows.YouTube VideoDescription: A lot of cowardice has lately been publicly displayed -- people caving because of intimidation, violating Tim Snyder's "Don't...
View ArticleI No Longer Feel Able to Judge What "Bad Week for Trump" Means
I’ve been getting pleasure reading some of the commentators I respect talk about how Trump is damaging himself by looking really bad.Like the way he called for scuttling the continuing resolution, only...
View Article"Conservative" Needs Quotation Marks These Days: Don't Let Trumpism Claim any...
I’ve never called myself a “conservative,” but I’ve had respect for some conservatives I’ve known, and some expressions of conservatism , over the years. And I reject the use of the word...
View ArticleThe MAGA Base Seems Positively UnAmerican in this "Skilled Worker" Visa Issue
Having grown up in the post-World War II era, I can recall the national pleasure that America seemed to take in the “Brain Drain” in which so many of the best minds of the UK came to America to do...
View ArticleThree Ways People Come to Their Beliefs
This piece is running as an op/ed in newspapers in the very red congressional district (VA-06) where I was the Democratic nominee for Congress in 2012.*******************************Most people, I...
View ArticleHow Good People Can Embrace Evil (and Not Even Know It) (Text and 12-minute...
First the video version. Following that, the written piece.YouTube VideoToward a Solution to a Psychological MysteryMany times here in recent years, I’ve expressed my wonderment at a psychological...
View ArticleMy Op/Ed (in newspapers in my very red district) on Why the Election of Trump...
Since 2013 I’ve published an op/ed every week that’s run in newspapers in my very red congressional district (VA-06) in which I was the Democratic nominee for Congress in the 2012 election. Over the...
View ArticleTrump Should Not Be Allowed to Take the Oath He's Already Taken and Violated
[I haven’t decided whether to publish this also as my op/ed in the newspapers the weekend before the inauguration, in my very red congressional district (VA-06).]**********************That oath is...
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