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The summer wind comes blowing in

Ah, summer. Long time arriving, you’re over all too quickly.Summer, in brief, is ritual, which suits me just fine, since I’m a creature of habit anyway. (Proof: I’ve eaten the same breakfast for years now. I watch three or four episodes of Seinfeld nearly every day. I sit in the same ...

News almost too crazy to believe

This has been a jaw-dropping week, and that does not even include the federal indictment of a former president of the United States that occurred in Miami on Tuesday.For example, there was the startling news coming out of the Southern Baptist Convention, whereby the nationĢƵ largest ...

TrumpĢƵ finger-pointing problem

Hardly anything about Donald Trump surprises me anymore.Hardly anything.For his upcoming federal trial, I’m surprised he’ll be tried as an adult.The one-term, twice impeached, twice arrested, twice-indicted ex-president isn’t taking his lumps like a fully grown man.Hours after special ...

Battling those supposed transgender demons

Folks on the right are spending lots of their time (and our patience) battling the unseen demons of transgender men and women.Republicans are rallying around a call to “protect our kids” from learning there are people out there who aren’t exactly like them.ThatĢƵ a call thatĢƵ ...

DeSantis, Trump: Gentlemen, start your engines!

Donald Trump is running for president for the third time.Most Americans are exhausted by that prospect.Oh, there are millions of hard-bitten Trumpophiles, who’re all in on Mr. TrumpĢƵ next bite at the presidential apple.I get that.But there are far more Republicans, Democrats, and ...

When bots have minds of their own

I’m no expert but it seems to me there might be something to this notion that artificial intelligence – otherwise known as AI – is a whole lot of trouble waiting to happen.Even the people working to bring to market the bots of the future are sounding the alarm. Only recently, the ...