Unfortunately, we in the United States have allowed our system of higher education to be infiltrated by the demands of economic priority to a remarkable degree.… Read More Higher Education: Time to Disrupt the Digital Disruptors
But why is it “bizarre” to take into consideration how groundwater moves over time? What’s bizarre is to allow any pollution of our groundwater at all by a big, industrial source.… Read More Clean Water Victory: Supreme Court Rules Against Hawaii Polluter and Trump Administration
As of this moment there has been no response, no few words of contrition, from the Wisconsin GOP regarding those voters sickened during the in-person voting in Milwaukee… Read More Seven Cases of Coronavirus Likely Due to Wisconsin Primary Voting
“Thank you all for coming, like dogs, again today. And thanks for agreeing to purchase and wear my latest campaign hat with the slogan, “Making Media Grovel Again.”… Read More Three Satirists Walk into a Daily White House Press Briefing
From what I’ve viewed on Twitter, maturity and nuance regarding Biden (and even the former hero, Sanders) from the fingers of disgruntled progressives is scarce. … Read More Bernie is Out, So Biden is In, And Bernie Endorsed Biden, So Bernie is, like, SO OUT!
They’re having problems down in Florida.
They gettin’ corona blues from the New Yorkas.… Read More They’re Having Problems Down in Florida: Satirical Poem
How best to put an end to the Covid-19 pandemic? At the moment, after an irresponsibly late start, many countries in Europe and the United States are attempting various extreme forms of “social distancing” and “sheltering in place”, sometimes referred to as “total lockdown.” The goal is to prevent people from mingling in close quarters… Read More Coronavirus: Must we do nothing or be lockeddown? Some say there is a middle way…
There was an old man named O’Pious… Read More Limerick: To Pray in the Pub
We are now in a time of public collapse, known as “social distancing.” Perhaps anti-social distancing is a more accurate label. Our global economy is proving to be more fragile than we expected. And it seems there are limits to what our scientific knowledge and technology can accomplish: we are vulnerable to viruses, be they… Read More Life in a Time of Covid-19: Local, Private Joys and Separate Politics
If we can’t have Liz Warren, let’s elect a president who emotes and cries. … Read More Now that Warren is Out, Vote Joe Biden Because He Cries in Public
I polled myself–a single throng–…… Read More The Poll (a poem)
After the media and Democratic voters of Iowa and New Hampshire sent Senator Elizabeth Warren out to get coffee for the cream of the Democratic Primary, the debate last night in Las Vegas proved that Warren the candidate came back with a glass of something stronger: feminist liquor. Just a whiff of it sent Billionaire… Read More Warren is Back. Cheers!
Democrats in 2019, to beat Trump in 2020: “Biden or Warren?” Biden, according to polls, beats Trump by the largest margin, especially in crucial swing states. Warren, however, is more liberal, intellectual, younger, has excellent grasp of policy and many plans, appeals to women, would be our first female president. . . also competitive with… Read More Dem Primary: “Look! A Billionaire vs. a Socialist!”
After a long retreat, a deep ebb tide of silence, the Pacific blog returns to regular publication for this momentous political year. The Pacific will remain “a still small voice” in the vast ocean of digital detritus, providing discriminating readers with shorter prose pieces on politics, literature and ocean conservation, as well as the occasional… Read More The Pacific Returns for 2020
If Rudy* is a “hand grenade”*Why did Bolton* send his aideTo disarm the whole charadeWhile Bolton lounges in the shade? Well, that is how his wars are made:From the safety of Bolton’s brain. Note: *Rudy Giuliani, former mayor of NYC serving as President Trump’s personal attorney and covert diplomat in Ukraine. *John Bolton was the… Read More John Bolton’s Wars (a poem)
Trump’s got a new “Commission on Unalienable Rights” Investigating whether there’s a thing called human rights For aliens & atheists & immigrants & kids And anyone who alienates It By the color of her skin.
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