A week ago, I asked how bad political discourse can get in this country. Discouraged as I was, I hadn’t seen this coming. Perhaps – despite everything my family and friends tell me – I’m too optimistic. Last week, Republicans who hope to be president stood silently by as their constituents cheered for the […]
Along toward the end of August, I received an email from my state’s junior senator, Bernie Sanders (I). I look forward to these because a) Senator Sanders is even more PO’ed about the state of the nation than most of his constituents (although right-winger politicians can say the same) and b) he’s not beholden to […]
In this space the first week of January 2004, I predicted it would be the year that would determine whether or not American democracy would survive. In the last month of that same year, I was forced to conclude, with sorrow, that American democracy is doomed. Although I’ve been allowed brief moments of hope since […]
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Tagged Barack Obama, ExxonMobil, James Hansen, Rex Tillerson, Russia, Tar Sands, Vladimir Putin
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What the Left Hand is Doing
Cognitive dissonance is name given to the discomfort caused by trying to simultaneously hold two conflicting ideas. Policy dissonance might be the name applied when two conflicting ideas are the basis for government action. An example: Texas is still in the worst single-year drought in its history and the hottest summer in Texas history just […]