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Ranking presidents is stupid. There's a feedback loop between the times and the president's rising to the occasion or not. A couple of Republicans had the good luck to be in office at the time Russia was going through a transition period, now they're saints for saving the world. That's why academic ...

Yeah, yeah, California is a shithole and Mississippi is the last best hope for civilization.

Then why aren't there hundreds of thousands of people going homeless just so they can live in Mississippi?

I'd be funnier if I hadn't gone over my tolerance level for right wing media brainwashing. It's a full time job keeping that poison out of my head.

Trump won't physically threaten people, he has the whole US right wing for that.

All this is happening when Netanyahu is in office. The US government plays a peripheral role at best. The US government didn't wall off Gaza and let it turn into a terrorist base. "Battle lines being drawn, nobody's right if everybody's wrong" -- Some forgotten 60s band that actually playe...

There's a causal texture to all this going back to WWII, at a minimum, and the dawn of civilization at the earliest roots. Gross oversimplifications do nothing except cause false hopes that make the problem worse. At a minimum, we need better leadership in Israel and a general rejection of extremism...

The Senate is dysfunctional enough without the Senators being picked in those proverbial smoke filled rooms by party hacks who got where they are by being rich enough to make megabuck donations. It's obvious that the filibuster broke the Senate. They should have imposed strict cloture but instead th...

Both parties make the problem worse, but the Republicans seem to do more damage more quickly, and it takes longer to clean up their messes. The current economic problems are deep-rooted, and caused mostly by bad policy and artificial shortages due partly to class struggle and partly by failure to ag...

Too many people, too little transportation, no profit in lower-middle class housing, very deficient social services, weak leadership, vastly underrepresented neighborhoods, high taxes for low results, and far far too little insight.

Nobody won the Cold War. Both sides made disastrous mistakes. Russia dropped out first, due to its weaker economic fundamentals and essentially personality based political system, despite all its propaganda to the contrary. At some point propaganda has to be backed up with real governance beyond jus...

Good start, now someone needs to take on the news business.

With gas prices spiking it looks like we might be in for another round of inflation Some of the "experts" who yak on TV would agree with you. I would tend to agree myself. You can't have wars going all over the Middle East without disruptions to the shipping lanes. That causes these short...

Many of the settlers are paramilitaries organized into de facto militias. Not all, but many. Some of the "settlements" are essentially forward bases. Not all, but some. Some of these disputed areas are mazes of checkpoints and roadblocks, making a routine commute to work take hours if you'...

The laws are unenforceable when there are 45,000 homeless. The problem is not the law but the system. First the mental health system was dismantled, then the lower-middle class got priced out of decent housing. If you have any problems at all, such as mental illness or long term job loss, it's the s...

Actually history teaches us a lot of things, but unfortunately they tend to be interpreted by charlatans and served up to us in little bites of slanted information. The Middle East, having the world's worst case of too much history and not enough geography, has the potential to teach us everything w...

This year it seemed to me that the women hoopsters were more popular than the men. We watched the last 15 minutes or so in a nice Irish pub on the way back to LA, though since they had a live band in the next room over the sound was inaudible. Lots of confetti. Then the TV went right into Newt Gingr...

Still dotting i's and crossing t's, but the winds of change can no longer be ignored. Paramount seems to be committed to merging with somebody. Probably it'll create another one of those lumpy conglomerates that does everything, a la MGM and Warner's.

The Senate was a way of avoiding a titled aristocracy in a House of Lords, which nobody wanted after their war with King George, while still creating an upper house for what was then an educated elite. The House was of course the new version of the House of Commons. The Federalist Papers, and other ...

It remains a stain on a supposedly free nation that we basically drove a learned and committed public health leader into hiding for life. I don't really blame any group of people. As a media type, I tend to blame the Internet. It needs some serious cleaning up. We tried free speech on the net, it wa...

It's high enough. A real politico vs an overprivileged loony who isn't a real president but he plays one on TV. --- Coronado was a pretty quick in and out, and it was punctuated by an odd wet stuff falling from the sky in a manner somewhat alien to that part of our country. Next time there'll be mor...

It was set up that way so the wealthy plantation owners down south wouldn't be perpetually in an endless squabble with the factory owners in the north. There was no concept of universal suffrage in a time when education was mostly for the wealthy. Read the Federalist Papers. They frame the debate qu...

Harris would be a better president than drumpf ever was. We just got back from Coronado. It's a nice little town and I like it, but they really should make the owners of that house right by the bridge exit take down that "KILL FAUCI" sign. It's the first thing you see when you come into to...

It's a tragedy when anyone dies of cancer, but in OJ's case the violin is a very small one indeed.

There are certain cases that our legal system is simply not equipped to handle.

Right now deterrent is all we have, but it doesn't work very well. It might dissuade some governments from doing something really stupid, but it doesn't work as well on asymmetric threats and terrorism. It might have prevented this species from gleefully immolating itself on the way to some version ...

Change "salary" to "compensation package" and you'll have a whole bunch of CEO's on that list.