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I’ll have to change my assessment of Mitt Romney: back in 2012, when he was running against Barack Obama, I distrusted Romney because he was a former hedge fund manager so in my mind, he carries the capitalistic philosophy which is business exists for shareholders only. He probably still does but he has shown a…

Well, when I said that the protests reminded me of the Arab Rising, I never thought I would be closer to the truth. On Monday, the Trump administration used the Park Police/National Guards/Secret Service (I’m not clear which set of law enforcement were involved) to shoot rubber bullets and to tear gas (or say we…

We’ve been here before. A couple of years ago we went through a spasm of shocking videos showing police violence against colored people. Those videos were painful to watch – and I really didn’t watch them – but they were necessary. Thank goodness for cell phones – they told the story of the colored reality…

Two weeks ago, I finally saw some auroras! On web cam. A couple of posts ago, I wrote about some Web cams that I started looking at, and interestingly enough, just a few days later, BBC had an article about “seeing the world without leaving your home”. Within the article was three of the web…

This.Is.Embarrassing. Ingesting or injecting disinfectant? Really? He doesn’t know when to keep his mouth shut. Wake up, Trump supporters, wake up! A couple of things we have shown to the world:  Our President is an idiot (well, I think the rest of the world already knew that; they don’t look to us for leadership or…

Just because we are undergoing a coronavirus pandemic doesn’t mean that climate change has paused. It’s still a threat. Soon, we will be heading into hurricane season and I am dreading it. The combination of a hurricane and an upsurge in infection rates just freaks me out. August/September through October is peak hurricane season and…