Donald Trump’s Deeds Consistent With Character

[Former acting president] Donald Trump’s abuse of copyrighted music in the face of artists’ repeated protestations seems consistent with the character of someone under allegation of sexual assault and rape: he goes ahead and does it even when you say you don’t want him to. Though far less serious, using copyrighted material against the express …

George Floyd: a leisurely murder

Save for the humanity of passers by and their smartphones, George Floyd’s murder would have been filed away as just one more routine, run-of-the-mill police incident that ended in a “tragic” death. The horror in the murder of George Floyd does not stop at the killing of an unarmed man who at most, possibly, may …

How Planets Tell You Something Is Wrong

The short answer is they kill you. Read on to see what form this justified homicide might take. The re-emergence of birdsong and other long forgotten natural phenomena are Nature’s Final Wakeup This morning the sun shone in a crisp, clear sky and the birds sang in a near total coronasilence. As they twittered, I …