The boldest foreign policy vision in a hundred years or more, bar none

If nine out of ten people in the Gaza Strip have lost their homes, and some of those homes might not be rebuilt for more than a decade, even forgetting the rest of the infrastructure required to support a community, where are these people supposed to live in the interim?  In tents?  In the rubble?… Continue reading The boldest foreign policy vision in a hundred years or more, bar none

Are we nothing more than massive colonies of self-replicating viruses traveling through time?

The legendary biologist Richard Dawkins returns to evolutionary theory with his third and fourth big idea, ushering in a true paradigm shift in how we view ourselves, the world, and the DNA that builds bodies to interact between the two. Imagine if you can, extracting the DNA of an ancient eukaryotic cell, the earliest complex… Continue reading Are we nothing more than massive colonies of self-replicating viruses traveling through time?

Advise and consent or rave and rant?  There was no decency or sanity to be had at the Senate’s confirmation hearings

Previously, Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanagh’s hearings in September 2018 were a high, or perhaps, I should say, low water mark in this regard, but we have to give the good Senators credit for outdoing themselves at least. Over the past several decades, Senate confirmation hearings have transformed from staid, boring, if-not-banal formalities into a… Continue reading Advise and consent or rave and rant?  There was no decency or sanity to be had at the Senate’s confirmation hearings