“WE FINALLY HAVE A PRESIDENT WHO FOLLOWS SCIENCE”
THIS, FROM WHITE HOUSE.GOV. What unmitigated clap-trap! What proof of ego-pandering lies! Above, the lead page for which we taxpayers paid. Image from The White House, April 22, 2025. Below, … Continue reading
TRUMP GENDER-101
TRUMP CHAOS IN SCIENCE is well documented: “Climate Change is a HOAX!” And this focused ignorance continues. Here are tidbits on another aspect of this, gender, from recent issues of AAAS … Continue reading
MORE ON TRUMP’S AUTOCRACY PLAYBOOK
FIVE DAYS AGO HERE AT SIMANAITISSAYS, U.S. Senator Chris Murphy shared the autocracy playbook employed by Putin in Russia, Orbán in Hungary, Erdoğan in Turkey—and Trump before our eyes. In … Continue reading
A THOUGHTFUL ANALYSIS PART 2
YESTERDAY IN PART 1 WE BEGAN GLEANING TIDBITS from Senator Chris Murphy’s analysis of the path to autocracy. Here in Part 2, he lists six specific elements in this lamentable … Continue reading
A THOUGHTFUL ANALYSIS PART 1
CHRIS MURPHY IS A U.S. SENATOR, a Democrat representing the people of Connecticut. On April 19, 2025, he sent an email to me—and to plenty of others, I’m sure—advising that … Continue reading
SCIENCE HAPPENS PART 1
DESPITE THE QUEENS FELON CARING NOTHING—and contributing less than a plugged nickel—about science, it happens anyway. Here, in Parts 1 and 2 today and tomorrow, are tidbits gleaned from my … Continue reading
SEND TRUMP TO THE PRINCIPAL’S OFFICE
IF A MIDDLE-SCHOOLER SPOKE, WROTE, OR TEXTED in the manner of President Trump, the student would be promptly sent to the principal’s office for a reprimand. If any MAGA supporters … Continue reading
TRUMP VERSUS KNOWLEDGE
“IPSA SCIENTIA POTENTIA EST” (“KNOWLEDGE ITSELF IS POWER”) wrote English philosopher Sir Francis Bacon in Meditationes Sacrea, (Sacred Meditations), 1597. English philosopher Thomas Hobbes as a young man was a … Continue reading
HEARING OURSELVES IN OPERA PART 2
SIMON BANKS’ OPERA: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE WESTERN WORLD encouraged thoughts about the operas of John Adams. Today in Part 2 we pick up with my personal view about controversy … Continue reading
HEARING OURSELVES IN OPERA PART 1
THIS TOPIC PARAPHRASES THE CONCLUDING CHAPTER TITLE of Simon Banks’ book Opera: The Autobiography of the Western World. Opera: The Autobiography of the Western World, by Simon Banks, Troubador Publishing, … Continue reading
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