Category Archives: Republicans

We Weren’t Dealing Well with Climate Emergency, Now Ukraine Emergency Makes It Worse

Posted on November 9, 2021 by philosophical Ron

(Original post, dealing with climate emergency, was greatly revised to cover Ukraine invasion and re-published Feb. 28, 2022.) The climate emergency has the potential to destroy all our comforts and conveniences, and possibly our lives – and we aren’t dealing … Continue reading →

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Trump: The Suicide of Civilization?

Posted on January 19, 2017 by philosophical Ron

The election of Donald J. Trump to the American Presidency in 2016 represents a stunning victory of ignorance over intelligence, a triumph of fraudulent salesmanship over honest customer service. To the extent that Trump succeeds in boosting irreversible climate change … Continue reading →

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The Power of Voting Against

Posted on July 27, 2010 by philosophical Ron

Is this a summer of discontents? It certainly seems less than satisfactory to me, mainly because of what management is doing to me in my first job situation, yet also for a certain lack of vigor, of spirit, in the … Continue reading →

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Will the Republicans Ever Stop Lying?

Posted on April 20, 2010 by philosophical Ron

There was a time when leading Republicans told something like the truth.   While there have been moments approaching clarity from individuals, in general the Republican party machine’s message has not followed this path since somewhere around Goldwater in ’64 or … Continue reading →

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