There’s a line in an old Creedence song that goes like this, “I see the bad moon a-rising. I see trouble on the way.” I see it too. In three weeks, either President Trump will have won his second term, or Joe Biden will have successfully stolen the election. In
According to the theory of quantum mechanics, Joe Biden is both the winner and the loser of the presidential race. It’s the act of measuring the results that determines which he is. I know what you’re thinking, WTF does quantum mechanics have to do with electing a president? Trust
I grew up on a dairy farm in Minnesota and have small-town values. One of the things I was often told is that winners never cheat, and cheaters never win. If someone cheated, I was supposed to shrug it off because, eventually, the cheater would get their comeuppance (yes, that’s
In August of 1992 we were living near Ft. Lauderdale. On the night of the 24th, hurricane Andrew struck and laid waste to south Florida. It scoured a large portion of the area right down to the blacktop and the city of Homestead was nearly completely gone. Supplies were limited
I don’t know much about Mitch McConnell. Honestly, I didn’t pay much attention to him until the impeachment hearings. So, he could have been a real idiot for decades and I wouldn’t have noticed. But, as far as the impeachment was concerned, it was pretty clear where he stood, and
About 3 million people die in the United States every year. That’s about 8,000 per day or approximately 6 people every minute. In fact, depending on how fast you read, somewhere between 10 and 20 people are going to die in the United States before you finish reading this. They’re
A while back I talked about how no one person is capable for speaking the entire black community. Not Jesse Jackson, not Al Sharpton nobody. That’s because there is no such thing as a “black community”. The population of black people in the U.S. is simply too diverse for any
According to his bio, Superman fights a never-ending battle for truth, justice and the American way. Until recently, I didn’t think you had to chose one over the others. But I do now. When I looked at what happened with the 2020 election, I came to see that truth and
There’s a term that a lot of people mispronounce. I don’t think they’re misusing it, because the context is generally correct, but the pronunciation is sometimes wrong. That term is “moot”. You’ll hear a lot of people pronounce it “mute”. As an adjective, the word “moot” means doubtful or irrelevant.
There’s a term that I hadn’t heard much before this year, and then I started hearing it a lot. That term is “gaslighting”. I didn’t understand what it meant so I did a little poking around. The term “gaslighting” comes from a 1938 play (and subsequent film adaptations) titled “Gaslight”.