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The American Liberal Arts

  • May 13, 2020

    Higher Education: Time to Disrupt the Digital Disruptors

    Higher Education: Time to Disrupt the Digital Disruptors

    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.

  • April 23, 2020

    Clean Water Victory: Supreme Court Rules Against Hawaii Polluter and Trump Administration

    Clean Water Victory: Supreme Court Rules Against Hawaii Polluter and Trump Administration

    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.

  • April 21, 2020

    Seven Cases of Coronavirus Likely Due to Wisconsin Primary Voting

    Seven Cases of Coronavirus Likely Due to Wisconsin Primary Voting

    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

  • April 14, 2020

    Three Satirists Walk into a Daily White House Press Briefing

    Three Satirists Walk into a Daily White House Press Briefing

    “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.”

  • April 14, 2020

    Bernie is Out, So Biden is In, And Bernie Endorsed Biden, So Bernie is, like, SO OUT!

    Bernie is Out, So Biden is In, And Bernie Endorsed Biden, So Bernie is, like, SO OUT!

    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.

  • March 29, 2020

    They’re Having Problems Down in Florida: Satirical Poem

    They’re Having Problems Down in Florida: Satirical Poem

    They’re having problems down in Florida. They gettin’ corona blues from the New Yorkas.

  • March 22, 2020

    Coronavirus: Must we do nothing or be lockeddown? Some say there is a middle way…

    Coronavirus: Must we do nothing or be lockeddown? Some say there is a middle way…

    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 […]

  • March 19, 2020

    Limerick: To Pray in the Pub

    Limerick: To Pray in the Pub

    There was an old man named O’Pious

  • March 13, 2020

    Life in a Time of Covid-19: Local, Private Joys and Separate Politics

    Life in a Time of Covid-19: Local, Private Joys and Separate Politics

    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 […]

  • March 9, 2020

    Now that Warren is Out, Vote Joe Biden Because He Cries in Public

    Now that Warren is Out, Vote Joe Biden Because He Cries in Public

    If we can’t have Liz Warren, let’s elect a president who emotes and cries.

  • February 23, 2020

    The Poll (a poem)

    The Poll (a poem)

    I polled myself–a single throng–…

  • February 20, 2020

    Warren is Back. Cheers!

    Warren is Back. Cheers!

    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 […]

  • February 18, 2020

    Dem Primary: “Look! A Billionaire vs. a Socialist!”

    Dem Primary: “Look! A Billionaire vs. a Socialist!”

    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 […]

  • February 15, 2020

    The Pacific Returns for 2020

    The Pacific Returns for 2020

    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 […]

  • October 24, 2019

    John Bolton’s Wars (a poem)

    John Bolton’s Wars (a poem)

    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 […]

  • July 25, 2019

    Playing God (satirical poem)

    Playing God (satirical 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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