Confessions of a Conservative Atheist
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From predatory policing to cancel culture with a touch of schadenfreude, a few lessons from the revelation of the rock legend’s DUI last year. What kind of world are we living in? Yesterday, the news broke that bonafide music legend, Bruce Springsteen, was arrested in November for suspicion of DUI, reckless driving, and consuming alcohol… Continue reading Cancel Bruce Springsteen?
A shady “cabal” coordinates a “conspiracy” on secret Zoom calls attended by “powerful people,” funded by billions of dollars from partisan interests, resulting in a complete rewrite of how we conduct elections. Who are the conspiracy theorists now? “A well-funded cabal of powerful people, ranging across industries and ideologies, working together behind the scenes to… Continue reading Time Magazine: “They were not rigging the election; they were fortifying it”
A new report from The Atlantic of all places suggests a much more complex picture of the supposed insurrection than any of the prevailing Trump as would-be Osama bin Laden narratives, even as Trump’s historic second impeachment trial looms next week. Former President Trump’s second impeachment trial begins next Tuesday, February 9. The charge before… Continue reading The Capitol Attack one month later: Who’s responsible? Trump? Right wing militias? White supremacy? A new domestic terror threat?
In less than two weeks, the Congresswoman from NY calls Ted Cruz a murderer, insinuates a Capitol Police Officer might have come to kill her, and likens being in another building during the attack to the trauma of surviving actual sexual assault. Apparently, some need to be more careful with their language than others. In… Continue reading Wait, AOC wasn’t even in the Capitol Building during the assault? Whatever happened to worrying about irresponsible rhetoric?
Acronyms aren’t the only thing, either. Have you ever been a perfectionist? Exhibited a sense of urgency? You might be a white supremacist. How an absurd paper from 20 years ago still influences concepts of racism today. Perhaps, it would be easier if they told us what wasn’t racist and we can work from there.… Continue reading Are we all racists now? An honest question in a world where acronyms, yes acronyms, are suddenly a tool of white supremacy
Biden says the 1776 Commission is “offensive,” “counterfactual,” “ignorance and lies.” Well, if Biden were George Washington, what exactly would he have done differently? How would Biden have ended slavery at the time of the founding? And does he endorse The 1619 Project? I’m rescinding the previous administration’s harmful ban on diversity and sensitivity training… Continue reading 1776, revisited: A few questions for President Joe Biden
The free market turns out to be not so free as the financial elite swoop in to save their own skins, literally stealing from the common folk and sacrificing our interests for their bottom line while blathering about protecting us from ourselves or something. Sound familiar? Not unlike what we saw on January 6 on… Continue reading GameStop: A populist revolt on Wall Street is quickly crushed by our financial masters, promptly compared to the attack on the Capitol by former officials
Freedom of speech, a norm since 1791. Filibusters since 1837. Nine Justices on the Supreme Court since 1869. 50 states since 1959. All are currently on the chopping block. It’s almost enough to make you think the raging against Donald Trump breaking political norms was just hard-nosed politics and ginned up outrage. Less than two… Continue reading Whatever happened to democratic norms? Free speech, the filibuster, nine Supreme Court Justices, and fifty states, suddenly aren’t norms?
Joe Biden breaks Donald Trump's first week record with 22 executive orders, one of which has already been halted by the courts. The increasing scope of executive orders is almost certain to provoke an honest-to-goodness crisis in the not too distant future, and yet next to no one is talking about the damage waiting to… Continue reading Executive orders are the real looming Constitutional Crisis
A breakthrough new discovery observes the spooky world of the quantum at work inside our own cells, potentially solving one of the mysteries of science while confirming the quantum world remains as elusive as ever with far reaching implications for everything from technology to biology. There are few concepts that have a hold on the… Continue reading The quantum computer inside of each of us
Confessions of a Conservative Atheist 