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There was a period of time when the school boards were hearing a lot of displeasure from the parents regarding “critical race theory” and the tone seemed kind of threatening. There was an aura of violence and even one parent threatened about bringing her guns to school the next day. These parents, who were mostly…

The month of May was unusually warm for me, and I had to google to check if May temperatures were warmer this year. Yep, several records fell in May during its unusually early heat wave. Some Northeast temperature records from the 1800’s were broken. Those who deny climate change…are they starting to come around? I…

Another week, another mass shooting. Last week stemmed from bigotry coming out the of the white replacement theory. This week is just some eighteen-year-old venting his rage (I guess) on poor elementary age children. My last post focused on last week’s deplorable event arising from the white replacement theory pushed by Fox Entertainment (or at…

When you mix gun availability with hate speech on Fox News you get…the Buffalo mass shooting. We are getting more and more of these mass shootings. I know the pandemic has worsened people’s ability to cope but we already had a simmering level of craziness and violence. Add on top of that the looseness of…

So, three months have passed and the brutal war is still grinding on. The Ukrainians have been extraordinary in holding off the Russians and really have surprised me at how well they have done. Of course, I’m no military expert but in the early days, I was under the impression that everybody expected Russia to…

It’s time for me to process the world events going on. The news coming out of Ukraine about cities being razed, citizens being deliberately tortured and shot down, children dying, is just horrible. The Russian military – the leaders, not the conscripts – come across as psychotic. There is no need to kill citizens. But…